The Saban staying news is going over well at other SEC boards. Nearly everyone I've been to has at least post on the subject with lots of :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: in them.
It was Nebraska in 94-95, then they split in 97 with Michigan. 3 out of 4 years....exactly what LSU will do.
islstl, that would be awesome if we could pull off that feat!!!! We've got a tough conference road schedule next year, but I know this team can do whatever it wants and nobody can stop them if they play up to their ability.
This from the Ole Miss message board. It is a classic. Looks like a dynasty in the making.... that has the potential to kill the Ole Miss program for several reasons. For one thing, given the kind of talent Saban is assembling and his coaching ability, LSU will likely become to the SEC West what Spurrier's Florida teams became to the SEC East--preventing any other team in the West, including Ole Miss, from ever winning championships (without which, BCS bowl appearances also go out the window). He is accumulating such a depth of talent at every position on the field that his teams will be practically unbeatable. And without the realistic possibility of ever making it to a BCS bowl, it will be extremely difficult to grow our program beyond an annual Cotton Bowl appearance. Secondly, it could destroy our in-state recruiting. The presence of Bear Bryant and a team in a neighboring state that competed for national championships every year resulted in Mississippi becoming a recruiting colony for the Alabama program and the same thing could happen with Saban at the helm at LSU. The best we can probably hope for is that he will focus more on Texas and other areas rather than on Mississippi, but realistically, as close geographically as Mississippi is, he will recruit the state hard in years when the talent pool is more impressive than it was this year.........and he rarely loses a recruiting battle except when a prospect just did not want to go to LSU under any circumstances. It makes developing an out-of-state recruiting presence even more essential if we are to have any chance of competing and given this staff's failure to make any inroads in that regard this year, it makes the future look very bleak. Finally, and perhaps most ominously, by raising the bar on coaching salaries to the stratosphere, LSU has set the stage for the commercialization of college football to the point that schools like Ole Miss simply will not be able to compete because we will not be able (or willing) to pay coaching salaries that are sufficiently competitive to attract the best coaching talent. When the going rate was in the $1 million to $1.5 million range, we still had a chance, but now we don't....you can rest assured that other SEC schools will follow suit and raise their coaches' salaries to be in line with Saban's. Indeed, this will spell doom for all but a few dozen schools that are so big and have such deep pockets that they can and will pay these astronomical salaries.
Think about it. LSU came out flat against Florida. That would be the last time LSU would play uninspired football (and the last time in a very long time in the forseeable future). The Ole Miss game can be written off to 2 things. The offensive linemane that were sick as well as Matt Mauck (I heard this too many times to NOT believe it was true). Secondly, you must remember this was Ole Miss's National Championship game in a way. It was the biggest game in about 40 years or so. Did you expect them not to play "over their heads".....of course I am referring to their defense.
