I think Saban will take the Chicago position.

It isn't the cold weather that I would dislike about living in the North. It's the cold people.

 

Well, that's a stereotype Southerners have about Northernrers just as Northerners have stereotypes about Southerners being unintelligent red-necks.

If you go North or South and have these preconceived notions you're more likely to get them confirmed. Been both North and South and both places have nice and mean people.

 

Ralph_Wiggum, I'm from the south and have lived in the Peoria, IL and Fort Dodge, IA area since moving from Lake Charles, LA in January-1993.

You never get use to it. I currently live in Iowa and a damn dusting to you minnesota people is 6" of snow. If I had the opportunity to return home today with my employer, I'd start packing as soon as I made this post!

 

I really don't like snow, but the cold--it got to a high of -2 on Monday in the twin cities doesn't bother me. Of course 25 is a heat wave. I tell you there is a difference between 25 and 15.

The snow bothers me due to the driving and shoveling and build up of ice and so on, but you get used to it and learn how to deal with it.

I never really liked the summers down South. I mean up North you can sit outside in July and read and so on and not even break a sweat. From mid April to mid November it's pretty nice. One thing I don't like is the short winter days, but I never liked it being dark at 7:30pm in Louisiana in July, just felt too wierd. Durng the summer it should be light out until 9:00pm

 

Pastimer: I will say this much, the most polite and friendly people that I've met are from Minnesota. They are liberal but they are nice. I'm sure they have there share of jerks too. The only jerk I know of in Minnesota was imported from Marshall University!

Otherwise, I agree with you. Chicago and the Northeast I think have the coldest people. It is much easier to meet new people in the south than any part of the north that I've been too. Minnesota is the exception to the rule for the north. This is based on my personal experience.

 

Surely Saban kept a close eye on Spurrier all thru the year, and everytime we saw him on TV, he looked like he was ridden real hard and put up wet. And he had an ego ten times bigger than Saban, but couldn't get it done. I can't imagine anyone wanting to put up with nutcase owners and primadonna 'franchise players' regardless of the pay. And we know pay is not this issue anymore.

 

The McCaskey family is pretty hands-off and will give a coach time. Jauron and Wannstadt were given time. In no way is the situation comparable to Spurrier and the redskins.

Urlacher is not a primadonna. You figure the tradition of the bears is hard-nosed defensive football and a running game. The fans ran Cade McNown out of town and they liked Jim Miller the no-nonsense QB.

 

I agree with you guys on the things that ya'll have expressed. I too would like nothing more than for Saban to remain an LSU Tiger--but, we all know that he's someone that will always love facing challenges.

I applaud the new contract offer by Bertman and LSU. 10 years, $30 MILLION--to be a college coach--speaks VOLUMES of what our administration at LSU believes in and is committed to....WINNING.

Saban has said over the past few weeks leading up to the Sugar bowl that he likes where he's at (LSU), loves the fans....it's been reported that there are reports that he doesn't want to up and move his family again until his kids are out of school...He's dismissed interests in coaching in the NFL during the season....Now, the bottom line is that he IS making NFL dollars (Coughlin just signed a contract with the Giants that pays him $3 million annually as well). Sure, there are teams ('Da Bears), that will no doubt offer more...but the bottom line is that if it's NFL dollars Saban wants, he's getting the average salary of an NFL coach right here at LSU.

It kinda put Saban in a moral delimma. Does he:
1.) "Practice what he's preached": Dedication, commitment to making LSU a national power--seeing out his "I want this to be the beginning, not the end" comments, and ultimately say no to the NFL and yes to remaining here at LSU with "the best fans in all of college football" and anywhere else for that matter

...OR...

2.) He bolts for the NFL for the mega-mega dollars and watch his character take a hit because he would have misled a whole lot of fans, students and players...

Guess we're all about to find out exactly what type of person Nick Saban is. Is he the one who wants to be dedicated to finishing what he said he wanted to start or he continues to be the coach that can't stay in one place for more than 4 years before moving on??? ...Only time will tell.

BUT PLEASE, COACH....DON'T LEAVE!!!!!!!:geaux:

 

Saban has the chance of a lifetime at LSU. He has the chance to return to the National Championship again next year. How many times is this possible? I think he realizes it, however, if his buddies at Chicago do make it seem nice and pretty to him, he may go. I just don't see it happening though.

Can you imagine if he does stay next year and has a repeated National Championship! His stocks would go through the roof and the offers he would get next year would make this year seem like pocket change.

 

I don't think he faces a moral dilema at all, Boston. He just has to make a career decision. I think you're wrong about #2, also. If Saban "bolts for the NFL," it won't be "for the mega bucks." It will be for an opportunity to work in his profession at the highest level and attemp to grab the grandest prize in all of sport - the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

Furthermore, he would not have "misled a whole lot of fans, students and players." What has he said that was misleading? That he likes it at LSU? That he's happy? That is no doubt true. He has always been very careful about what he has said and has never said anything like: "I'm staying here at LSU for a long, long, time and damn the NFL know matter what I am offered by an NFL franchise." What do you expect him to say when asked if he might leave to coach in the NFL and similar things? "Uh, yeah, it's been fun here at LSU, but I'm just waiting for the right NFL offer to come in and as soon as I get it I am gone pecan!"

One could argue that Nick Saban HAS finished what he started at LSU. He won us a friggin' national championship! He's got the program on solid footing, he's molded great players and people. He's established LSU football as a dominant national program. Isn't that what he set out to do? I'm sorry, but I took great offense at your view.