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From a quick scan of articles


Sarkisian: 'We are doing something special here'

USC is a good place, don't get me wrong. I had a wonderful time there, but man, we are doing something special here," Sarkisian told The Dan Patrick Show. "It's been taking up 4½ years to build this thing the right way."


Sarkisian also said he wanted to stay at Washington longer than Don James, who coached the Huskies for 18 seasons.

Before Washington's bowl game that year, Sarkisian had taken the USC job.

Nick Saban LSU;

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N Saban looked his players in the face at the Duf, said he wasnt leavin, I'm committed to the program" and was gone the next day. Tru story

Todd Graham: 'Nothing but mercenaries'

After winning at least 10 games three times in four seasons at Tulsa, Todd Graham headed to Pittsburgh to replace the fired Dave Wannstedt in 2011.

After a 6-6 season, three of Graham's assistants left to take jobs elsewhere. Graham labeled the departed coaches as "nothing but mercenaries." Two weeks later, Graham was off to Arizona State for his fourth head-coaching job in a span of seven seasons.

Calipari: 'This is where I want to coach'

It's not just a football phenomenon. When Memphis landed at the airport after its Sweet 16 loss in the 2009 NCAA men's basketball tournament, coach John Calipari was asked about the opening at Kentucky, which had fired Billy Gillispie after missing the tournament for the first time since 1991.

"I want to be here. This is where I want to coach," Calipari told reporters gathered on the tarmac.

Three days later, Calipari accepted the Kentucky job.

"I guess I have to say it," Saban said. "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

When the stories linking Alabama and Saban began circulating last month, almost immediately after Shula got fired following a 6-6 season, the former coach at Louisiana State said he was flattered but not interested.

He's bristled at nearly every suggestion about him leaving the Dolphins since.

"I don't know how many times I've got to respond to rumor and innuendo," Saban said. "I have no control over that. I've stated what my intentions are and they really haven't changed, so I don't know what the issue is. And I don't know why people keep asking about it. What they talk about over there is their business. But what's happening here is my business and our business, and that's what we're focused on."