Here is what was actually said: Wilbon "Butch Davis is reportedly interested in LSU and Florida. Your thoughts?" Kornheiser "I thought LSU had a coach!" Wilbon "Apparently not for long" Kornheiser "Florida needs a coach!" Wilbon "I guess he is going up to the east side" Kornheiser "I thought LSU had a coach at the moment!!!"
Actually, according to forbes.com Butch Davis makes an average annual salary of 3 mill per year from the Browns.
Hmmm.... you would think after a College NC Coach faltered with their program they would try to go in league to find the answer. We will see, I still think Saban wants an undefeated national title before he hangs up his college whistle, plus he may wait for his kids to get farther along in school before he subplants them somewhere else.
And for almost every one of these Saban is going here or there comments. Saban has said he and his family are happy in Baton Rouge. He like his job. YADA YADA. So the proof in the puddin is in the eatin. PLUS where will he find a student section like ours. Gotta feel the love Nick. :thumb:
I personally don't see Saban leaving here for a while. On the oither hand I'd be crazy to think he will not ever leave for the NFL. Now is just not the time though.
Way to inspire confidence in your team Butch...his excuse: "No one on the team at present is good enough to make a difference". NICE Please don't come to LSU
Nick's name will be mentioned every time there is a coaching vacancy whether it is the NFL or the NCAA. Hell, if the HC job at a Junior College in western Kansas becomes vacant next week, the media will probably report that Nick is the leading candidate. :lsup:
First off, I don't want to jump any guns here. Coach Saban is awesome and I want him to be the head coach at LSU for a long time. That said, IF he left, I want the replacement to be Jimbo Fisher. But if Jimbo takes a head coach job elsewhere, I definitely think Butch Davis is a candidate worth looking at. You need to dig deeper; I think you are assuming that Davis is a "thugs on parade" kind of coach simply because he coached at Miami. That's not true. Davis was brought in post-probation, post-Dennis Erickson at Miami. He oversaw the rebuilding of that program, and he was instructed to clean Miami's image up, using any means necessary, even if it cost the team wins in the short run. Coach Davis did just that; he doled out suspensions like they were candy and ran off about a dozen players in his time there. It hurt at first; the low point came in 1999 when the 'Canes lost at arch-rival Florida State 47-0; they went only 7-4 that season, I believe. But Davis got them back to the top; they went 11-1 in 2001 and the 2002 team that won it all was Butch Davis' team; Larry Coker just saw it through and tried not to screw it up. Davis' rebuild and makeover, I believe, has done wonders for them to this day; don't count Kellen Winslow's antics and they haven't had a major off-field incident since Davis' second year. Now, Miami football is NEVER going to be mistaken for a monastic order, but they are infinitely better off and more well-behaved and reputed since Davis was there. My concern with Davis is what happened in Cleveland and what it would mean for LSU; I hope it means that Davis' disciplinarian ways, like Saban's, are better suited for college than for the NFL. But I don't know; there is so much talent and tradition at Miami and such good recruiting in south Florida that you would have to be an idiot not to be able to win there. LSU and Louisiana are starting to get up to that level, but it's still fragile; we need a good coach to keep it going, to keep taking us back to the top year after year, to keep the in-state talent at home. I'm not sure if Davis is a great coach, or merely an average coach with awesome recruiting and PR skills. Because if it's the latter, then a Butch Davis-coaches LSU team will always be 8-3 or 9-2, with an occassional 10-1 or 11-1 and SEC Title game appearance, but we'll never be able to win "The Big One" (a Texas-Mack Brown situation). But I don't know that. I'd certainly want to give the man a fair hearing.
