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re: Saban will be GM & recruiting co/ordinator & DeBoer brings an elite offense to replace
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:28 am to John Milner
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:28 am to John Milner
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I guess you should inform Saban because apparently he disagrees.
Pretty soon UGA will copy Alabama on this, same as ever.
What you're thinking he is and what he's saying he is are two different things.
The last thing that dude is gonna do is hang around and tell someone else how to run his program. And the other dude is a successful football coach. He's not gonna run to Saban every time something goes wrong and ask how can I fix it? If he's really a homerun higher, he doesn't need to do that.
This post was edited on 1/14/24 at 10:29 am
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Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:31 am to koreandawg
Kylo will handle the day to day while Saban focuses on the big picture stuff
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:35 am to Draconian Sanctions
No coach can meet the expectations that the Updykes have, consistent championships and 0 or 1 loss seasons every year. It's not happening. NIL has created parity across the country with non-SEC teams being able to compete., Texas and Oklahoma will present new challenges, and once the playoff field expands no matter how good you are the chances of making it through unscathed are slim.
It's why Saban left, he couldn't stand the thought of being a 9-3 coach after his 17 years of unprecedented success. College football is completely different than it was 20 years ago.
It's why Saban left, he couldn't stand the thought of being a 9-3 coach after his 17 years of unprecedented success. College football is completely different than it was 20 years ago.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:35 am to John Milner
Figurehead
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:36 am to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:37 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Bunch of skeered rival fans in this thread already. This isn’t working out at all like you guys hoped it would.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:38 am to John Milner
Bro nobody is scared of NAIA Saban
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:39 am to John Milner
The real question is how well this arrangement where this undefined mentor/advisor works when rubber hits the road. A lot of people say that coaches taking over for a legend just need to keep the sports car between the lines and out of the ditch. To extend the metaphor: the problem with that logic is the next coach doesn't know what all the buttons and levers do in the cockpit nor the driving characteristics of the car.
If Saban is mostly just telling DeBoer the information he needs to make existing recruiting operations work, detailing the analyst system, providing insights on future opponents, etc then I think everything will be fine. If Saban is on the practice field trying to coach the defensive backs like the GTA role he jokes he played at practice when he was the HC, thats the slippery slope. He probably needs all his interactions with the team to be DeBoer-only. DeBoer needs to be the guy in charge and Saban's mentorship just something DeBoer takes under advisement.
Can Saban do that? He was one of the best to do it, so maybe he's one of the rarities who can pull off this role. Barry Alvarez made it work for a while but eventually the HCs he hired felt chaffed by his mentorship. They wanted to run their offense, not his 1990s Big Ten zone run and zone defense approach.
If Saban is mostly just telling DeBoer the information he needs to make existing recruiting operations work, detailing the analyst system, providing insights on future opponents, etc then I think everything will be fine. If Saban is on the practice field trying to coach the defensive backs like the GTA role he jokes he played at practice when he was the HC, thats the slippery slope. He probably needs all his interactions with the team to be DeBoer-only. DeBoer needs to be the guy in charge and Saban's mentorship just something DeBoer takes under advisement.
Can Saban do that? He was one of the best to do it, so maybe he's one of the rarities who can pull off this role. Barry Alvarez made it work for a while but eventually the HCs he hired felt chaffed by his mentorship. They wanted to run their offense, not his 1990s Big Ten zone run and zone defense approach.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:39 am to John Milner
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This isn’t working out at all like you guys hoped it would.
how so? Be specific...Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:39 am to John Milner
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Bunch of skeered rival fans in this thread already. This isn’t working out at all like you guys hoped it would.
If I'm being 100% honest, I would much rather Saban hover around the program and cause a power struggle.
However, I think you're wrong and he won't do that. I think he understands how detrimental it would be, unlike you.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:40 am to John Milner
The amount of coping going on is crazy. Saban isn’t going to keep busting arse for bama. When you retire from a job you say frick that job. You don’t buy a multimillion dollar house in Florida to not use it and stay in frickin Alabama. Guy has $100,000,000. He doesn’t care about y’all that much.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:40 am to Diego Ricardo
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The real question is how well this arrangement where this undefined mentor/advisor works when rubber hits the road. A lot of people say that coaches taking over for a legend just need to keep the sports car between the lines and out of the ditch. To extend the metaphor: the problem with that logic is the next coach doesn't know what all the buttons and levers do in the cockpit nor the driving characteristics of the car.
If Saban is mostly just telling DeBoer the information he needs to make existing recruiting operations work, detailing the analyst system, providing insights on future opponents, etc then I think everything will be fine. If Saban is on the practice field trying to coach the defensive backs like the GTA role he jokes he played at practice when he was the HC, thats the slippery slope. He probably needs all his interactions with the team to be DeBoer-only. DeBoer needs to be the guy in charge and Saban's mentorship just something DeBoer takes under advisement.
Can Saban do that? He was one of the best to do it, so maybe he's one of the rarities who can pull off this role. Barry Alvarez made it work for a while but eventually the HCs he hired felt chaffed by his mentorship. They wanted to run their offense, not his 1990s Big Ten zone run and zone defense approach.
Nobody is reading any of that.
None of that is happening.
But don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop it'll soon be here. It will be better than before.
Yesterday's gone...
Yesterday's gone...
This post was edited on 1/14/24 at 10:41 am
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:41 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Bro nobody is scared of NAIA Saban
Tell it to Texas and all the other peons, like LSU, that didn’t even sniff the playoffs. By the way, I think this was Deboer’s 2nd year at Washington. What lesser coach in the SEC has been at their program and not even won their conference? Hmmm.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:41 am to jcatl
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No coach can meet the expectations that the Updykes have
Are you trying to tell us that in contrast, the barner fan base is more than satisfied with that 6-7 record? That you still get warm all over just thinking about the Mexico State and Maryland beat down?
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:42 am to John Milner
Saban can’t let go. Before he left Baton Rouge, he made a lot of notes of advice to the new coach.
The guy is power hungry.
You quit, so leave already!
The guy is power hungry.
You quit, so leave already!
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:42 am to John Milner
So Saban will reap the credit for anything good, meanwhile Lil Kalen gets to eat the shite sandwich when things go bad.
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:42 am to John Milner
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and all the other peons, like LSU, that didn’t even sniff the playoffs
BK has a better record here through 27 games than Saban did
He’s also doing way better here through 2 years than than he did at Notre Dame.
We’re doing just fine, thanks
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:43 am to John Milner
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that didn’t even sniff the playoffs.
Bro you were invited to the playoff this year!
With Nick Saban for that matter.
You have no Saban now.
And no playoffs.
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peon
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:43 am to tigersbh
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You quit, so leave already!
LOL
Sorry, not sorry
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:43 am to John Milner
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Pretty soon UGA will copy Alabama on this, same as ever.
The real build back better.
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