Saban retiring

Breaking via the internet

Presumably to become Jon smith’s assistant.

But also Jesus fucking Christ you’re going out with a loss to them?

Heres a link for you

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Imagine the expectations that come with following Saban. Replacing coaches who already have their own statue has to be hard. Any speculation about candidates?

Turtleneck wrote:Imagine the expectations that come with following Saban. Replacing coaches who already have their own statue has to be hard. Any speculation about candidates?

Joey Freshwater is interested.

I saw some debaur (sp) speculation

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Breaking via the internet

Presumably to become Jon smith’s assistant.

But also Jesus fucking Christ you’re going out with a loss to them?

True, but he also just kicked off a huge story and stole all their attention.

He should have done it immediately after the game

Later Prick

Tuck Comin

Cmon Travis. You know you want to say it! lol.

Mel Tugger is on line 1.

(Just don't ask what he's doing on line 1).

After 50 years of coaching starting off as a GA and 33 years as a HC he’s done okay.

Seven National Championships and 12 Conference Championships.

Time for him to not having to be every recruit’s family best friend every weekend and now re-recruiting players already on the roster.

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The coaching carousel is gonna get nuts. I suspect Lanning will take the job unless Phil Knight is willing to him a sweet $100 million bonus.. plus, Oregon football will look a bit different next year in the Big Ten.

If so, who goes to Oregon? Not a historical power but certainly has been in recent history. That would be a destination job for a lot of guys.

I'm thankful we got our boring white guy when we did.

Also, Pete Carroll is gone in Seattle.  Adds another potential layer to the Harbaugh saga.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:The coaching carousel is gonna get nuts. I suspect Lanning will take the job unless Phil Knight is willing to him a sweet $100 million bonus.. plus, Oregon football will look a bit different next year in the Big Ten.

If so, who goes to Oregon? Not a historical power but certainly has been in recent history. That would be a destination job for a lot of guys.

I'm thankful we got our boring white guy when we did.

Also, Pete Carroll is gone in Seattle.  Adds another potential layer to the Harbaugh saga.

With that, the porthole. Hopefully coach smith has his porthole guys on it

Just when AD's at a dozen or so schools thought they could breath after the coaching carousel had stopped several are in full blown Oh Shit mode.

Some are dropping Oregon's Dan Lanning as 'Bama's new coach..  Phil Knight is in a position to make a $ubstantial case for Lanning to stay in Eugene.

CUM

GRR Spartan wrote:Just when AD's at a dozen or so schools thought they could breath after the coaching carousel had stopped several are in

Some are dropping Oregon's Dan Lanning as 'Bama's new coach..  Phil Knight is in a position to make a $ubstantial case for Lanning to stay in Eugene.

dude, you should at least cite your references.  

Bobby Sak wrote:The coaching carousel is gonna get nuts. I suspect Lanning will take the job unless Phil Knight is willing to him a sweet $100 million bonus.. plus, Oregon football will look a bit different next year in the Big Ten.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:CUM

Dear sweet Jesus please don’t start.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:The coaching carousel is gonna get nuts. I suspect Lanning will take the job unless Phil Knight is willing to him a sweet $100 million bonus.. plus, Oregon football will look a bit different next year in the Big Ten.

If so, who goes to Oregon? Not a historical power but certainly has been in recent history. That would be a destination job for a lot of guys.

I'm thankful we got our boring white guy when we did.

Also, Pete Carroll is gone in Seattle.  Adds another potential layer to the Harbaugh saga.

I'll guess Dan Quinn will get the Seattle job.

Sorry Bobby Sak. I thought you’d be advising what bicycles work best in Tuscaloosa

tGreenWay wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:CUM

Dear sweet Jesus please don’t start.

If only you could see the gif

GRR Spartan wrote:Sorry Bobby Sak. I thought you’d be advising what bicycles work best in Tuscaloosa

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:


Dear sweet Jesus please don’t start.

If only you could see the gif

I’m so grateful I can’t.

Glad Haller got our guy early. Somebody's going to end up on the short end as the last domino.

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James Franklin?

GRR Spartan wrote:After 50 years of coaching starting off as a GA and 33 years as a HC he’s done okay.

Seven National Championships and 12 Conference Championships.

Time for him to not having to be every recruit’s family best friend every weekend and now re-recruiting players already on the roster.

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Robert J Sakimano wrote:The coaching carousel is gonna get nuts. I suspect Lanning will take the job unless Phil Knight is willing to him a sweet $100 million bonus.. plus, Oregon football will look a bit different next year in the Big Ten.

If so, who goes to Oregon? Not a historical power but certainly has been in recent history. That would be a destination job for a lot of guys.

I'm thankful we got our boring white guy when we did.

Also, Pete Carroll is gone in Seattle.  Adds another potential layer to the Harbaugh saga.

This cycle has been fairly tame. Shits about to get weird

DWags wrote:James Franklin?

Sanders is pretty funny too. What would Steve do with all his Buffs gear? And Vrabel? C'mon.

Turtleneck wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:After 50 years of coaching starting off as a GA and 33 years as a HC he’s done okay.

Seven National Championships and 12 Conference Championships.

Time for him to not having to be every recruit’s family best friend every weekend and now re-recruiting players already on the roster.

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Nick isn’t wrong. Coaching sounds rough enough, but all these changes have made the job seem genuinely miserable.

Heat Miser wrote:Sanders is pretty funny too. What would Steve do with all his Buffs gear? And Vrabel? C'mon.

Half that list seems unlikely. Would Norvell, Lanning, Deboer or Sark leave what they have going to a pressure cooker. Wash may have been a flash in the pan with Penux, so maybe that doesn’t apply to Deboer. The rest seem to have pretty good gigs going.

Dabo seems the most realistic. Relationship at Clemson seemed to be wearing thin.

I saw a joke that said that Saban should start his own Bar Rescue/Kitchen Nightmares show where he spends a week with a struggling college football team to get them back on track.

Ha funny joke but seriously I would watch the hell out of that show please make it

Nordic wrote:

Heat Miser wrote:Sanders is pretty funny too. What would Steve do with all his Buffs gear? And Vrabel? C'mon.

Half that list seems unlikely. Would Norvell, Lanning, Deboer or Sark leave what they have going to a pressure cooker. Wash may have been a flash in the pan with Penux.

Dabo seems the most realistic. Relationship at Clemson seemed to be wearing thin.

The talent that anyone will have and be able to get would make the job attractive to anyone. If Deboer thinks his success was dependent on Penix, or Norvell that his was due to Travis, they can look at Alabama as a much easier place to strike gold again that UW/FSU.

It seems like the shine has worn off Dabo post Watson/Lawrence and he's been exposed as not as strong of a coach as though (at least that's how ACC people down here in Miami/FSU country see it, which could be bias). But I wonder if fans and donors are Bama would be excited by him at this point.

Funny that Jimbo's not on the list...or anybody's list anywhere. aTm...where coaching careers go to die.

MiamiSpartan wrote:

Nordic wrote:

Half that list seems unlikely. Would Norvell, Lanning, Deboer or Sark leave what they have going to a pressure cooker. Wash may have been a flash in the pan with Penux.

Dabo seems the most realistic. Relationship at Clemson seemed to be wearing thin.

The talent that anyone will have and be able to get would make the job attractive to anyone.  If Deboer thinks his success was dependent on Penix, or Norvell that his was due to Travis, they can look at Alabama as a much easier place to strike gold again that UW/FSU.

It seems like the shine has worn off Dabo post Watson/Lawrence and he's been exposed as not as strong of a coach as though (at least that's how ACC people down here in Miami/FSU country see it, which could be bias).  But I wonder if fans and donors are Bama would be excited by him at this point.

given the last couple of years that Clemson has experienced, I agree - I think the shine has worn off of Dabo a bit. Doesn't mean he can't get it back, but the ACC is a bit stronger than it was when he was steamrolling teams.

I think Bama being Bama (meaning the fanbase, sports radio down there, Finebaum, etc) - I could see a Dabo hire being met with overwhelming ambivalence.

ya gotta remember, about 6 weeks ago, the yahoos here - at Michigan State - were like "if we don't get a combination of Urban Meyer, Vince Lombardi, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, Steve Spurrier and Kirby Smart, I'm burning my MSU gear on Facebook Live"... now extrapolate that degree of unhinged, irrational thought to the Bama faithful.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I saw a joke that said that Saban should start his own Bar Rescue/Kitchen Nightmares show where he spends a week with a struggling college football team to get them back on track.

Ha funny joke but seriously I would watch the hell out of that show please make it

If that show were ever made, it would make me simultaneously relieved and pissed as hell that we don't have Tugger anymore. Especially if Saban was going full Gordon Ramsey on the coach of the program he's visiting. If the rumors I've heard about Tugger are true (showing up for practice just long enough to shoot an instagram reel, then jetting), that would have made for fantastic television.

tGreenWay wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

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Nick isn’t wrong. Coaching sounds rough enough, but all these changes have made the job seem genuinely miserable.

Seems to me that college football staffs have been seriously revamped in the last few years with an office staff or various managers for all these functions, which should take some of the load off of the HC?

Nordic wrote:

DWags wrote:James Franklin?

I feel like people are just taking big names and throwing them at the wall. I saw a tweet yesterday that said this is the job you take after whoever follows Saban and gets fired for "not winning 12 games a year." The expectations and pressure that come with following Saban will be entirely unrealistic.