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Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:17 am
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:17 am
What was the fanbase like when Saban first started and went what 6-6? Did Bama fans give Saban a chance or were they after his head?
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Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:19 am to 4TheLoveLSU
Who cares
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:19 am to WhaddupDawg
I was talking to the Elephants in the room, not the pigs. Mind your business.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:25 am to 4TheLoveLSU
I can assure you I didn't hear a single person call for Saban to be fired in 2007
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:26 am to 4TheLoveLSU
I mean, it wasn't fun, but we had an elite recruiting class coming in and kind of understood he was taking over a dumpster fire with a very average roster. We showed some signs of life that year (Arkansas, Tennessee) but just kind of collapsed.
We didn't have a single player drafted after that 7-6 season, so.
We didn't have a single player drafted after that 7-6 season, so.
This post was edited on 9/6/22 at 10:27 am
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:27 am to 4TheLoveLSU
No, they were pretty quiet. Alabama fan base generally has an unusually high “football quotient.” The Alabama boards are pretty sophisticated about what went wrong in a loss… usually concluding that “we beat ourselves.”
There was little woe-is-me after that game because most understood how bad the situation had gotten. And most understood just what Saban was bringing.
I hate to disappoint you, but Alabama fans are just more sophisticated about football. There are trolls and wanna-bes, but fewer just plain knuckle-draggers than in the LSU fan base. LSUers as a group are pretty much top of SEC in getting high and then crashing.
There was little woe-is-me after that game because most understood how bad the situation had gotten. And most understood just what Saban was bringing.
I hate to disappoint you, but Alabama fans are just more sophisticated about football. There are trolls and wanna-bes, but fewer just plain knuckle-draggers than in the LSU fan base. LSUers as a group are pretty much top of SEC in getting high and then crashing.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:28 am to 4TheLoveLSU
We had faith Coach Saban would right the ship.
Also, Kelly =/= Saban
Also, Kelly =/= Saban
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:29 am to 4TheLoveLSU
thinking Kelly is SabanPosted on 9/6/22 at 10:30 am to 4TheLoveLSU
Coming off a decade plus with multiple probation issues, scholarship reductions, HC personal scandals, a rotating carousel of coaches, and more bad seasons than good, I'd say most knew the program needed a complete overhaul and were rather patient. Fixing the culture in the lockeroom and getting the boosters back in a box and out of his lane were the priorities for Saban, which he did.
LSU is in a bad place, but the situations are not exactly the same.
Kelly is a proven coach and the transfer portal actually helps purge talented cancers and replace them much easier. I think LSU will be fine, but it's disingenuous to try and really compare 2007 Bama with 2022 LSU.
LSU is in a bad place, but the situations are not exactly the same.
Kelly is a proven coach and the transfer portal actually helps purge talented cancers and replace them much easier. I think LSU will be fine, but it's disingenuous to try and really compare 2007 Bama with 2022 LSU.
This post was edited on 9/6/22 at 10:31 am
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:30 am to 4TheLoveLSU
Yes, people were glad to have a coach like him after all we had been through! There were those idiots but most people had become aware that we had to be built from the ground up.
Saban was very good at managing the fans as well as the players. He made the fans take responsibility for their role in his process.
We had our typical alumni that fought it and he pretty much told them to frick off and Mal
Moore gave him the authority to control every aspect, which is the only way it will ever work.
Saban was very good at managing the fans as well as the players. He made the fans take responsibility for their role in his process.
We had our typical alumni that fought it and he pretty much told them to frick off and Mal
Moore gave him the authority to control every aspect, which is the only way it will ever work.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:31 am to 4TheLoveLSU
We went into the LSU game that season with a chance to win the conference but lost in a close game. After that game, the team fell apart in the locker room. We lacked leadership and heart with the players Shula brought in leading the way, but we could all see how much better the team was all the way up to the point JP Wilson fumbled the ball in the 4th quarter against LSU. I think most of us were still excited. We knew he'd bring in his players and that there would be a bigger culture change.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:31 am to 4TheLoveLSU
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What was the fanbase like when Saban first started and went what 6-6? Did Bama fans give Saban a chance or were they after his head?
surely you jest.
Mike Shula was the previous coach and Alabama was still on ncaa probation.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:34 am to Che Boludo
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LSU is in a bad place, but the situations are not exactly the same.
Agreed. We were in complete "Jesus take the wheel" mode at the time. LSU's worst season in this entire stretch was a single instance of 6-7; their best season obviously being a NC. Our best season from 2000-2006 was a year where we blew our chance for the SEC Championship in heartbreaking fashion
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:36 am to 4TheLoveLSU
One of the things I distinctly remember about that year is other fans holding up signs saying that we had paid $4m for six wins.
I think it was at Mississippi State towards the tail end of the season.
Wish I could find a picture of that.
I think it was at Mississippi State towards the tail end of the season.
Wish I could find a picture of that.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:37 am to 4TheLoveLSU
How many hours a day does BK spend in the football complex?
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:37 am to 4TheLoveLSU
The more interesting question I have about the early days of Saban is who he had blackmailed from the SEC and NCAA offices to start dropping bags for annual recruiting riches? He got those classes rolling at a time when the NCAA still thought they had nuts and were laying infractions for secondary recruiting violations.. meanwhile, Nick was playing with greyshirt scholarships.
You can see the same trend with Smart when he took the reigns from Richt. Fortunately, as more programs figure out how NIL actually works, dropping bags for recruits won't matter as much.
You can see the same trend with Smart when he took the reigns from Richt. Fortunately, as more programs figure out how NIL actually works, dropping bags for recruits won't matter as much.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:37 am to 4TheLoveLSU
Do you believe that 2007 Alabama had the same amount of talent as 2022 LSU does?
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:40 am to BLG
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Mike Shula was the previous coach
I'm a Shula fan for what he did as a player and a coach (God love him for trying), but there was a huge culture problem both in the locker room and related to the boosters.
Some of the stories that came out of that era make it shocking that they actually had even a modicum of success on the field.
Posted on 9/6/22 at 10:48 am to Gravy_Train
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The more interesting question I have about the early days of Saban is who he had blackmailed from the SEC and NCAA offices to start dropping bags for annual recruiting riches?
I'm not saying things didn't happen that happened everywhere else (Lance Thompson was on that staff), but you're fricking crazy if you don't think Nick Saban didn't live and breathe recruiting, and drill the importance of it into every single person on campus the day he arrived.
He may be the greatest coach, but he is 100% the most ruthless and efficient recruiter that has ever existed, and that wasn't handed to him by anyone else in any office, anywhere.
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