Saban in 2025

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So if Texas and OU are going to join starting in 2025, WHO will be coach at Alabama? Saban will be 76 years old then.
 
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Saban will coach forever. Alabama has purchased a new technology that will allow you to transfer your mind into a younger human being, so they will hire a 30 year old coach but it will actually be Saban in their brain.
 
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Nocleats said:
So if Texas and OU are going to join starting in 2025, WHO will be coach at Alabama? Saban will be 76 years old then.
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If it isn't Saban, it'll probably be a coach that isn't even on anybody's radar yet.

The obvious names that you could throw out today (Dabo, Kirby, etc.) aren't going anywhere.
 
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Nick Saban is untouchable and is treated like royalty at Alabama.

He’ll coach as long as he wants too.
 
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At least now we’ll get to see if Riley and Sark have what it takes to play loads of talent every damn week.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Whoever that poor bastard will be, will be out of there with consecutive 10-2 seasons.
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...and then their return to an era where they don't win a title for a while begins after that, IMO. I don't see them truly slipping until they run off a good coach who might go something like 30-5 over 3 seasons but wins no hardware.

Whoever replaces Saban will need to win or almost win a title in his first year. If he doesn't, they will sink their hooks into him immediately and make it almost impossible to function after that.
 
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05_never_again said:
...and then their return to an era where they don't win a title for a while begins after that, IMO. I don't see them truly slipping until they run off a good coach who might go something like 30-5 over 3 seasons but wins no hardware.

Whoever replaces Saban will need to win or almost win a title in his first year. If he doesn't, they will sink their hooks into him immediately and make it almost impossible to function after that.
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I’m sure you remember the one time Saban didn’t win a title and the best of Bama called Pawl and wanted to run him outta town. It’ll be something like that id say.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
I’m sure you remember the one time Saban didn’t win a title and the best of Bama called Pawl and wanted to run him outta town. It’ll be something like that id say.
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If Alabama fails to win a title in 2021 and 2022, I guarantee you that there will be polite, but very serious, taps on Saban's shoulder telling him to retire. Even if they made it to title games in both years and lost.
 
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05_never_again said:
If Alabama fails to win a title in 2021 and 2022, I guarantee you that there will be polite, but very serious, taps on Saban's shoulder telling him to retire. Even if they made it to title games in both years and lost.
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The fans, yes but the fat cats will probably wait a little longer. He’s still recruiting at a high level so it’ll be solely up to them. They won’t just strut into his office and say time to go old man!
 
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05_never_again said:
If Alabama fails to win a title in 2021 and 2022, I guarantee you that there will be polite, but very serious, taps on Saban's shoulder telling him to retire. Even if they made it to title games in both years and lost.
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At this point, everything else is just gravy on Saban’s resume.

He’s already passed Bear Bryant’s record for NCAA Championships and is considered the best college football coach of all time.

Even if Saban starts to slow down some over time, he’ll leave whenever he’s ready.

I highly doubt their administration will try to force him to retire.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
At this point, everything else is just gravy on Saban’s resume.

He’s already passed Bear Bryant’s record for NCAA Championships and is considered the best college football coach of all time.

Even if Saban starts to slow down some over time, he’ll leave whenever he’s ready.

I highly doubt their administration will try to force him to retire.
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I think you overestimate the rationality of their fanbase.
 
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05_never_again said:
I think you overestimate the rationality of their fanbase.
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Eh, it depends on what caused the team to fall short. Saban rarely fires assistants, but if the defense doesn't turn things around this year he may have no choice but to fire Golding. But Saban, himself, will never be run off.
 
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bamawriter said:
Eh, it depends on what caused the team to fall short. Saban rarely fires assistants, but if the defense doesn't turn things around this year he may have no choice but to fire Golding. But Saban, himself, will never be run off.
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. If he lost to Tennessee then yea he would. Chances of that actually happening 0.005 percent
 
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bamawriter said:
Eh, it depends on what caused the team to fall short. Saban rarely fires assistants, but if the defense doesn't turn things around this year he may have no choice but to fire Golding. But Saban, himself, will never be run off.
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It depends. Strange things can happen. The specific circumstances would play a role. If he's narrowly losing CFP title games, then he's fine. But say he makes it to the CFP final each of the next two years and loses non-competitive games against Ohio St and Oklahoma. I don't think he would be fired, but there would absolutely be takes from folks (and I don't mean just crazed people on Twitter or hot take artists in the media) for him to step down, that he had lost it and younger coaches like Day and Riley had passed him, etc.

I definitely don't anticipate this, but if he didn't win a title in either 2021 or 2022 and it is because he didn't even make it to the CFP, then there absolutely would be serious calls for him to retire. Think about the loss(es) would likely be keeping him out it...could be regular season losses to A&M, LSU, or Auburn or perhaps an SECCG loss to Georgia or Florida.

Regardless of who the losses were to, they'd be huge shocks to the system and if they happened in back to back years, you know people would look at his age, that big fat contract he just signed (I know he's had a bunch of those over the years, but you know how people can be), and seriously wonder if he should hang around much longer.
 
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05_never_again said:
If Alabama fails to win a title in 2021 and 2022, I guarantee you that there will be polite, but very serious, taps on Saban's shoulder telling him to retire. Even if they made it to title games in both years and lost.
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No there won't...There's nobody out there that can replace him.
 
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