Saban to Bama

**VolunteerHillbilly** · 12-21-2006, 10:24 AM

just a feeling I'm getting in my bones. Seems as if inertia is forcing them together. Flame away if you wish.

**TuskALoosa** · 12-21-2006, 10:47 AM

I always knew that you were the second smartest person on here.

SWIL · 12-21-2006, 10:58 AM

lol!!! Thanks guys. I needed a good laugh this morning

**GAVol** · 12-21-2006, 10:59 AM

I heard that the ink was dry.

**TuskALoosa** · 12-21-2006, 11:05 AM

It's only a verbal agreement at this point. Ink should be dry on New Years Day.

**hohenfelsvol** · 12-21-2006, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by TuskALoosa

It's only a verbal agreement at this point. Ink should be dry on New Years Day.

That's what Rodriquez said.

**TuskALoosa** · 12-21-2006, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by hohenfelsvol

That's what Rodriquez said.

True.

**hohenfelsvol** · 12-21-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by TuskALoosa

True.

Just kiddin' though. Think in the end if you do get Saban it will be worth the wait and better then Rodriquez hire would have been.

**TuskALoosa** · 12-21-2006, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by hohenfelsvol

Just kiddin' though. Think in the end if you do get Saban it will be worth the wait and better then Rodriquez hire would have been.

It's only a pipe dream at this point. But, the door hasn't slammed on him yet.

GVF · 12-21-2006, 11:54 AM

Well, the grass is not very green in Miami. The current Dolphins owner is a tightwad and has the corporate morale all screwed up. He won't open his checkbook to bring the players in or upgrade much of anything. Saban at one time indicated, and I paraphrase, that he already had a good college job that he left for the pros; If he wanted to stay in college he'd kept that job. Of course, situations change. But, the load of crap the AD and prez of Bama much lay into to actually make that job sound worthwhile. Bama is 3/4th in the West at best now. They've seen AU, LSU, and now Arky go right by, and they'll never catch up again.

Besides, if the LSU job came back open, they'd be all over Saban to come back. He left on very good terms and could probably request Les to be let go if he wanted to return to LSU. If he did to come to Bama it'd only be until he returned to LSU. Bama has no commitment to coaches. Coaches will have none to them.

Vercingetorix · 12-21-2006, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by VolunteerHillbilly

just a feeling I'm getting in my bones. Seems as if inertia is forcing them together. Flame away if you wish.

I agree. Though I can't find the story online, supposedly there's a story circulating that Alabama won't take no for an answer and that Saban is getting closer to taking the job. Chris Mortenson has supposedly denied that they are talking (again, no link), but does say that they are waiting until the end of the NFL season to make Saban an official offer.

Who knows what's going on? But the fact that they're encouraged enough to blow their whole recruiting season waiting on the possibility of Saban has me thinking that he hasn't exactly turned them down cold. I laughed at it a couple of weeks ago, but I now think there's a good chance he ends up there.

OrangePappy · 12-21-2006, 01:04 PM

Cowherd made an interesting point today about Bama and Saban. If Bama offers him 2 mil plus a huge signing bonus or maybe just say 5 mil a year what does that do to the pay scale on a national scale.

**volinbham** · 12-21-2006, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by OrangePappy

Cowherd made an interesting point today about Bama and Saban. If Bama offers him 2 mil plus a huge signing bonus or maybe just say 5 mil a year what does that do to the pay scale on a national scale.

The same Board of Trustees that put the skids on Jimbo Fisher to UAB because he would be too expensive (probably less than $500K) apparently sees money as no object when it comes to UA.

Vercingetorix · 12-21-2006, 05:15 PM

Saban today: "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

Pretty adamant for coachspeak. But it's not like Saban wouldn't lie or anything.