re: Why did Nick Saban abandon Louisiana State University?

Didn’t make me grow much

I’m 6 foot though

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Who else ever did that in the same conference?

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I assume you mean left an SEC school for another job then returned to coach a different SEC school:

1. For starters John Heisman left Auburn (who wouldn't?) for Clemson (OMG, Auburn with a lake), and then went to Georgia Tech. He was a dick and I saw his teams play at GT (just kidding), a school the entire conference hated then and still should.

2. Steve Spurrier left Florida for Washington Football Team then to South Carolina.

3. Paul Bryant (you may have heard of him) left Kentucky for aTm and then went to Alabama...

There are others and if you counted assistant coaches, there are tens (or hundreds) just farmed out from Alabama during Bryant-Saban years. But though Auburn, Kentucky, and Florida et Al. fans were sorry to see those coaches go, they did not have a 15 year meltdown, crying, wailing, gnashing teeth, beating their wives, kicking dogs, cursing heaven and earth with hate and damnation, blaming god and the devil or Alabama for all the ills and misfortunes that have since befallen their pitiful programs. In other words, those fans moved on like adults.

I leave it to you to decide what has happened for 15 years down here... take my word for it...it ain't pretty...

I know this is not a serious thread and I have no idea why I am giving it a serious response, but both Mssrs. Daniel Mullen and Thomas Tuberville moved within conference - and, in fact, went directly from one school to another. There are probably others if I sat here and thought long enough.

Fran found a more expensive ROPE to hold

You must not be paying much attention to the recruiting pipeline coach Saban left behind. The one that goes right up the main street of Baton Rouge, as well as throughout the state.

Devonta Smith, Chris Harris, Dylan Moses, Phil Mathis, and a boatload of others will gladly tell you they weren't abandoned by coach Saban.

Since we go through this same conversation every year, it's easy to forget that Coach Saban left BR 16 years ago.

I appreciate what he did for us, and how he left the program in much greater shape than how he found it.

There will come a day when he returns to TS to celebrate his first national title with his old team. I believe he will receive a much warmer welcome than he has been getting as an opposing coach- and that's how it should be.

Hoping we see a spirited contest tomorrow night. I know the odds- but this is still a special game.

He had to satisfy that itch he had to experience the gay lifestyle in Miami.

Well done....