emainvol
Giver of Sexy
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Yep. I was wrong about that point.
Slow? Not really. Realized it a couple of pages ago, but decided to mess with you and your anger a little.
Let me ask a stupid question . . . What difference does it make really whose situation sucked worse? Everybody knows the rubber meets the road for any hire in years 3and 4 anyway.
Saban won 9 his first year at Toledo, won the SEC his second year at LSU, and went 12-0 in the regular season his second season as Bama. In his 16 years as a college coach, he has never finished with a losing record. Are people really trying to compare him to a coach that has 1 winning season and 4 losing seasons? Are people really trying to compare Tennessee's football program to that of Michigan State?
How closely did you follow Michigan State in the 90's?
I'll admit I'm too young to remember, but I'm betting the situation at Michigan State was probably much harder to improve on than people are making it out to be.
He had talent at LSU. I didn't follow Dinardo that closely because LSU wasn't worth following at the time. They DID have a lot of LA and TX talent to pull from though.He has coached at two other stops in the SEC and he won quickly in both places. Are you trying to say that Gerry Dinardo and Mike Shula are master program builders?
UT's roster was in worse shape when DD took over than Bama's was through their whole troubled period.And he did deal with an NCAA investigation at Bama (their second in a short time), and I'm pretty sure they got hit harder than we did.
You think Saban would be 11-14 and that he would have been dangerously close to 0-8 in SEC play his second year?
That's fair, but I'm betting we would have seen progress instead of regresion.
Go ahead and do your research, then get back to me when you have a damn clue.
I think you may have been talking about Saban at MSU. It was referenced a couple of pages prior. I assumed you were talking about Alabama's probation and academic issues that you referenced.
Let me ask a stupid question . . . What difference does it make really whose situation sucked worse? Everybody knows the rubber meets the road for any hire in years 3and 4 anyway.