I was surfing over at Maddenmania.com hey I am a Video game Junkie will anyways they have a cool NFL and NCAA discussion board over there. Well Anyways they are rumors that on the Tony Kornheiser show that they heard that Nick Saban was offered a 5 year 5.5 million dollar per year contract to coach the bears.
I am not worried about it either, cause I don't think he will leave. but I only posted it cause I thought the $$$$$$ might interest some folks.
Spurrier was a winning college coach with no NFL experience as a coach. He hired good defensive assistants and left them alone to do their thing. He was able to manage the Florida program his way without overworking himself with plenty of time off for golf. That won't cut it in the NFL. On the other hand Saban is a workaholic with NFL experience and connections. The Spurrier and Redskins fiasco will have no bearing on the desireabilaty of Nick Saban as a potential NFL coach. I sure hope he signs that contract with LSU real soon. Saban has proved that he is a great recruiter with 2 #1 recruiting classes and a possible 3rd one this year. In the NFL you don't recruit anybody other than free agents and only if you have room under the salary cap to sign them. Saban took a program in shambles to the National Championship in 4 years. He won his first SEC Championship with the leftover players from the DiNardo regime. He is capable of doing the same thing with the Bears or any other NFL team if he gets a free reign to do things his way. He is now the highest paid coach in college football but an NFL team that wants him bad enough can double anything that LSU is capable of paying. The prevailing rumors suggest that LSU will pay him $30 million over 10 years. He could make a guaranteed $30 million in 5 years in the NFL if he wants to. Not the biggest contract in the sports world - Alex Rodriguez, the Texas Rangers shortstop makes $25 million every year. A Rod's team is one of the worst teams in baseball. Nick Saban is a bargain at $5 or $6 million a year.
