UAB hired the UGA offensive line coach

Bayou Bengal11 · Dec 17, 2006

FYI....I know JF interviewed for this position

Proud Tiger · Dec 17, 2006

JF was interviewed and it was a done deal until last Friday. That's when the poweres-that-be at UAT (Drummond, Bryant, Jr., and the BOT stepped in and put the stop to it. They it was going to taake too much money to get Fisher. Now that's a friggin joke and an even bigger lie. Truth is they don't want UAB to have a decent FB program and they want to keep Fisher available for themselves, probably as OC. I know ya'll will think this is a stretch but if you only knew what goes on in the evil empire.

LSUTiga · Dec 17, 2006

Proud Tiger said: ↑

JF was interviewed and it was a done deal until last Friday. That's when the poweres-that-be at UAT (Drummond, Bryant, Jr., and the BOT stepped in and put the stop to it. They it was going to taake too much money to get Fisher. Now that's a friggin joke and an even bigger lie. Truth is they don't want UAB to have a decent FB program and they want to keep Fisher available for themselves, probably as OC. I know ya'll will think this is a stretch but if you only knew what goes on in the evil empire.
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I don't know whether it's true or not but it's not a stretch to me. With all the corruption with bureaucracies nothing surprises me any more. Thanks for sharing. :thumb:

Bengal Buddy · Dec 17, 2006

Proud Tiger said: ↑

JF was interviewed and it was a done deal until last Friday. That's when the poweres-that-be at UAT (Drummond, Bryant, Jr., and the BOT stepped in and put the stop to it. They it was going to taake too much money to get Fisher. Now that's a friggin joke and an even bigger lie. Truth is they don't want UAB to have a decent FB program and they want to keep Fisher available for themselves, probably as OC. I know ya'll will think this is a stretch but if you only knew what goes on in the evil empire.
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Getting JF as OC at UA is a bigger joke than them getting Saban as jead coach.

Proud Tiger · Dec 17, 2006

Bengal Buddy said: ↑

Getting JF as OC at UA is a bigger joke than them getting Saban as jead coach.
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They have found their coach. It will be announced as soon as the excavation is completed.

Nutriaitch · Dec 17, 2006

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They have found their coach. It will be announced as soon as the excavation is completed.
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Beautiful

pharpe · Dec 17, 2006

Jimbo as Bama's OC :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

They'd be lucky to get him as HC!

lsu-i-like · Dec 18, 2006

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They have found their coach. It will be announced as soon as the excavation is completed.
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:rofl:

saltyone · Dec 18, 2006

Proud Tiger said: ↑

JF was interviewed and it was a done deal until last Friday. That's when the poweres-that-be at UAT (Drummond, Bryant, Jr., and the BOT stepped in and put the stop to it. They it was going to taake too much money to get Fisher. Now that's a friggin joke and an even bigger lie. Truth is they don't want UAB to have a decent FB program and they want to keep Fisher available for themselves, probably as OC. I know ya'll will think this is a stretch but if you only knew what goes on in the evil empire.
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Strange things are indeed going on at 'bama.

The coaching search at the University of Alabama has taken a strange twist, one that could have far reaching effects on three and perhaps four Southeastern Conference schools and one Conference USA school.And it all comes down to a group of power mongers who have no business being involved at all. In fact, their involvement could even lead to trouble down the road for the University of Alabama itself in an entirely unexpected way.The group is the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, a group headed by Chancellor Malcolm Portera and driven by Paul Bryant Jr. There are others of course, but those are the two names most often associated with the Board.All along, members of the Board have hidden behind the excuse that Alabama athletic director Mal Moore and UA president Robert Witt and consultant Chuck Neinas were in charge of Alabama's coaching search. It is becoming increasingly apparent that they are not, that the Board of Trustees is pulling the strings behind one of the strangest coaching searches in the history of college football.

Everything came out in the open last week when the UAB Blazers of Conference USA were ready to hire LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher as their head coach. All that remained was ironing out the details. It was to be for $600,000 a year, most of which was going to be covered by some influential UAB supporters. But then the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system (which includes the University of Alabama, UAB and UAH) stepped in and said that UAB could not hire Fisher. They claimed it was because of financial considerations, but that excuse doesn't hold water since the bulk of Fisher's salary was going to be covered by boosters.
Apparently, the Board of Trustees realized UAB was about to hire the most coveted assistant coach in the country. They realized It also could mean that UAB might wind up with a better coach than Alabama, and the idea panicked the Board of Trustees. They decided that couldn't happen, so they stepped in and overstepped the boundaries of a Board. They took the hiring of UAB's coach right out of UAB's hands. Not only did they not allow UAB to hire Fisher, they then imposed their own handpicked candidate on UAB. They strongly suggested Neil Callaway, Georgia's offensive coordinator, was the acceptable choice for UAB.

The Board will deny the Callaway link, but after the Fisher debacle there is no other explanation for UAB turning to Callaway, a former Alabama player with no head coaching experience that no other school on the planet was looking to hire. Fisher had no head coaching experience either, but he has been coveted by schools before and will be again; Callaway has not. Fisher is thought to be the next Bob Stoops waiting to happen; Callaway is not.There is one other possible explanation. The Alabama job is still open and there are plenty in Tuscaloosa who believe Nick Saban is going to leave the Miami Dolphins after Miami's season ends. If Saban were to actually take the UA job, perhaps he would bring his old offensive coordinator from LSU with him, and that would be Jimbo Fisher. Then, in four of five years when Saban got the inevitable itch to move on, it would be an easy move to elevate Fisher to the head coaching job at Alabama, which could be what the UA Board of Trustees wants all along.That way they could achieve two goals--they could get one of the hottest coaches in the country at Alabama and simultaneously knock the pins out from under the UAB football program, making sure it continued to struggle along until perhaps just giving up the ghost and dropping football. That would delight the University of Alabama Board of Trustees.

Now, I've explained the scenario that includes three SEC schools -- Alabama, LSU and Georgia -- and one Conference USA school -- UAB. So where does the fourth SEC school come in? There is a school of thought that believes Arkansas ultimately could also be involved.
There has to be a reason the Nick Saban rumors continue to linger at Alabama. Most believe it is because Saban's agent, Jimmy Sexton, is the man pulling all these strings like a puppeteer. It is also believed that Sexton has another coach in his stable that could be a fallback position for Alabama if -- or when -- Saban says no. At that point, some believe Sexton will say, "Hey, here's an idea..." and pull Arkansas coach Houston Nutt out of his hip pocket for the Alabama job. Sexton accomplishes a couple of things with this scenario: he keeps Saban's name in the news and he rescues Nutt from a troubled situation in Fayetteville.
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:rofl:

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