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re: What happens to the University of Alabama football program
Posted on 10/19/18 at 3:48 pm to DyeHardDylan
Posted on 10/19/18 at 3:48 pm to DyeHardDylan
We will just hire another coach and make him the GOAT like we did for Saban.
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Posted on 10/19/18 at 3:50 pm to DyeHardDylan
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Do they spend a small fortune on another tyrant like him or do they revert back to 6 and 7 win seasons like they were used to the previous 30 seasons before Saban?
Auburn would kill for a 7 win season this year.
Posted on 10/19/18 at 3:53 pm to DyeHardDylan
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When Saban croaks? Do they spend a small fortune on another tyrant like him or do they revert back to 6 and 7 win seasons like they were used to the previous 30 seasons before Saban?
You never know! Anything is possible.
Posted on 10/19/18 at 4:40 pm to AshLSU
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Somebody put Gus’s face on this guy and caption it “Auburn style”
Posted on 10/19/18 at 4:42 pm to FourThreeForty
I would like to know exactly what this means... but English isn't your forte evidently!
Posted on 10/19/18 at 5:19 pm to DyeHardDylan
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What happens to the University of Alabama football program
Do they spend a small fortune on another tyrant like him or do they revert back to 6 and 7 win seasons like they were used to the previous 30 seasons before Saban?
Bama had 10 seasons the last 30 years with seven or less wins. Seven of those seasons occurred during the Dubose and probation years. You infer that those types of seasons are the norm for Bama, yet they only occurred 33% of the time in the time frame you provided.
Using your same 30 year time frame, AU has had eight seasons of seven or less wins. Two less than Bama, and without probation.
Research, my man! You should try it.
This post was edited on 10/19/18 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 10/19/18 at 5:23 pm to DyeHardDylan
Dabo then gets the job
Posted on 10/19/18 at 6:45 pm to DyeHardDylan
What happens after Saban...
well, let's look at LSU. After Saban established the program and left, LSU hired Les Miles, a competent, if unexceptional coach with modest success at Oklahoma State.
Miles was able to maintain the program at an elite level, outlasting Tuberville at Auburn (considered a good program for awhile), and going toe-to-toe with Urban Meyer's Florida program. It took Saban returning to the SEC to eventually unseat LSU, and Miles was able to beat Saban 3 times in his tenure.
Point being, Bama doesn't need another Saban to maintain, they need only a Miles level dude, and he will tool along until the next Saban comes along. Note that per the LSU example, Urban Meyer at Florida WASN'T the next Saban.
I think it's going to take a long time for Bama to regress, unless they hire someone so full of themselves that they have to tear down the foundations and build it back in their own vision.
well, let's look at LSU. After Saban established the program and left, LSU hired Les Miles, a competent, if unexceptional coach with modest success at Oklahoma State.
Miles was able to maintain the program at an elite level, outlasting Tuberville at Auburn (considered a good program for awhile), and going toe-to-toe with Urban Meyer's Florida program. It took Saban returning to the SEC to eventually unseat LSU, and Miles was able to beat Saban 3 times in his tenure.
Point being, Bama doesn't need another Saban to maintain, they need only a Miles level dude, and he will tool along until the next Saban comes along. Note that per the LSU example, Urban Meyer at Florida WASN'T the next Saban.
I think it's going to take a long time for Bama to regress, unless they hire someone so full of themselves that they have to tear down the foundations and build it back in their own vision.
Posted on 10/19/18 at 8:12 pm to Scoob
Hopeing Matt Campbell hangs around ISU until then or Frost gets fired after several 8-9 win seasons at NU.
Posted on 10/19/18 at 8:46 pm to DyeHardDylan
Gaylord McCullough (Coach Bryant's plastic surgeon, former player and good friend) wrote a book on the post Bear years. In the book, he quoted Coach Bryant as saying that after he retires, the program would struggle and the fans would not understand why. Bryant foretold of a power struggle that would take a long time to overcome.
I've resigned in my mind that Alabama Football will struggle again. Maybe not as long, but the next coach will not have the same program Saban has. And our fans will not understand.
I've resigned in my mind that Alabama Football will struggle again. Maybe not as long, but the next coach will not have the same program Saban has. And our fans will not understand.
Posted on 10/19/18 at 9:21 pm to ExArmyVetIRISHFan
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What happens to the University of Alabama football program The real question is how many fans were there before Saban showed up. Those fans could tell you.
Ummm my gg parents went to see the train come in from the Rose Bowl in 1925
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