I think Saban will take the Chicago position.

I didn't use your words. I posted before I read your post.

As for YOU agreeing with ME, and therefore you being right about something for a change, well, even blind hogs find acorns once in a while.

 

With your bitchy attitude you have to be female. Can't we just kiss and make up? Would you be my date at the upcoming Republican "Bring a liberal" dance?

 

Does this friend of Nick's own the Chicago Bears? If he’s an employee of the organization, I'd have to look hard at that as well. I think it's all about Nick having control.

I travel all over the Midwest and have lots of listening time. I listen to a station in Chicago, and I can tell you, Nick can win 3-4 games and he will be Saint Nick to the bear fans. When he loses, those phone lines will lite up for hours and I mean hours. Nothing less than another super bowl shuffle will satisfy those people.

I do believe Nick will sign the LSU contract. I’ve given my reasons as some of you have posted. Sanders talked to Nick to commit. I promise you that topic came up and Sanders is satisfied with what he heard. I said the same thing about JR last year. If he picks LSU Nick is not going anywhere. We have JR & Nick!

 

I see www.TigerForums.com has convened a new sewing circle section amongst the starter of this thread and a majority of the respondents...

Not that I'm here breaking this down...

But there is NO job in the NFL that Saban's going to end up taking. There is NO team that's going to give Saban a deal ala Holmgren, Parcells, etc...

No one is going to reach the level of a Belichick or Parcells-which is to get player/personnel control, without being there for success. No one is going to achieve that success working with an NFL front office GM type whose out to prove that he's worthy of his position, and is none to happy that a coach is wanting to end up proving that he deserves wresting control away from his own vocation and adding it as a feather to his cap...

In other words, "they ain't no damn team gone be giving him player/personnel decisions", and without that, he's going to be auditioning each year to GAIN that power, and he'll create a friction between the two positions (HC and GM) that needs to be as seamless and fluid as the execution of the offense and the teamwork of the defense.

He'll never get it right, because guys getting player personnel control are going by the wayside...

Holmgren got it off the back of Dorsey Levens, Edgar Bennet, Antonio Freeman, and oh by the way...Brett Favre...

Parcells earned it...

Butch Davis fell on his face after recruiting how many future 1st rounders to the U?

How many NFL head coaches, and better yet, collegiate head coaches who were given player/personnel control straight out of the collegiate ranks have thrived?

Name one?

Shanahan? Puh-lease...Holmgren? For what? Making the wildcard game? Sheesh...

Bottom line, NO ONE CAN DO IT ANYMORE...unless they're at the top...and Saban becomes just another well pedigreed, excellent credentialed coach in a league full of well pedigreed, excellent credentialed coaches...With coordinators angling for jobs, GM's working over them trying to exert influence and a stranglehold on their own jobs, and owners who want IMMEDIATE results, I just don't see the position being conducive to any long-term success...

In a sport reduced to free agency labor motivated by large paydays and not the ultimate team success, where recreational drug usage is just as rampant, if not more, than performance enhancing drugs themselves, and a win at all costs mentality pervades and permeates the halls of the NFL front offices around the nation, I don't see how a coach whose motto for his team during his first SEC title run in 2001 was to, "Take out of yourself, and put into our team," would fit in and be able to plug into a system motivated by personal success more than accountability...

Sorry...Saban wants the ultimate success...But the NFL is designed to hasten failure amongst its coach's....

Bill Callahan...Jon Gruden...Before that...Mike Martz and Bill Belichick...Before that...Brian Billick and Jim Fassel....Before that...Dick Vermeil and Jeff Fisher....

Callahan...Fassel...Vermeil....Three NFL Super Bowl coaches who are no longer at their Super Bowl teams...Gruden, Martz, and Billick....all Super Bowl coaches who are or have been on the hot seat...

Another interesting factoid...4 years...8 coaches...What kind of long-term success is Saban looking for? What happens if he comes in like gangbusters, and ends up winning quickly? Say he even wins a Super Bowl, let's say in year 3? What then?

What next? What mountain is left? He'd be what...55 or so? Hell man...if you think he'd be ready to retire at 55, you're crazy! So, what next?

Saban is not done at the collegiate level...and to be honest, I'm not so sure that Nick Saban will "evah" be interested in the NFL...

But, let the sewing circle continue...

 

Like I have said before, you people have NO sense of humor.

It is a sure way to ID one of you.

It is fun to piss you off though.

 

Nick's friend is the General Manager of the Bears. He is an employee of George Halas daughter who is named something McCaskey and her family still owns the Bears.

 

Now that God has come down and given final judgement, I guess I can go to bed.

As if anyone knows what Nick Saban is thinking.

The rumors are that the Chicago Bears are making a SERIOUS effort to hire Saban. They are a franchise that has not won in a while and they may be getting real anxious to get the right guy. Obviously Saban is going to listen to them.

Time will tell.

 

If its fun to piss people off who has no sense of humor?:shock:

 

not sure that Nick is that much of a Mid-Westerner

Nick is really from West Virginia originally (as is his wife.) I know he went to college in Ohio and coached there and in Michigan, but I also know that he and his family are really enjoying the warmer climate here. What I'm saying is that I don't think he would be returning "home" to the midwest--if he goes there, he goes there, but I don't think it's the lure of home that would be part of it.

The article in the Chicago Tribune seemed to make sense--it quoted a good personal friend of Nick's who said that he had to have two things if he went to the NFL, including some control over personnel and salaries, and that isn't available in the Chicago job. It is hard for the press to understand why anyone would want to live in Baton Rouge--read Jay Mariotti's column in the Chicago Sun-Times a few days ago (before the Sugar Bowl) which basically called this place a god-forsaken swamp full of ho's and inbred illiterates. If sports writers are so wrong about what it's like down here, don't you think they're probably overstating the case that Nick Saban is definitely on his way to the NFL? Particularly since that's more what THEY want than what is reality! Just like how they voted in the AP poll!!

 

Now I get it. You and TE been messin' around behind my back. Well Dahlin' liberal Ho's like you is a dime a dozen. Don't try crawlin' back to me when TE gives you a good Bitch Slappin'