We will take a couple of grey shirts and depending on how many scholarships we give walkons we might have more. Check the recruiting board.
ADVERTISEMENT Gotcha, Nick! LSU defeats Saban's Tide; see photos from the game Bob Heist [email protected] TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - As night appeared to be falling on LSU's national championship hopes Saturday, Nick Saban had a flashback. And it certainly wasn't a good one. He found another team that couldn't make enough plays at the end of a game. Or, as Alabama's head football coach termed it afterwards, "play with enough consistency to be successful." ADVERTISEMENT At the end of games when one play can decide the winner - and ultimately a championship - Saban had another team fail Saturday as LSU eked out a 41-34 victory at Bryant-Denny Stadium. That sounds like a strange statement for a coach whose $4 million-a-year contract makes him the highest paid at his profession, but it's true. While the talk all week revolved around Saban facing the program he took to the 2003 national championship, and how it was players recruited by Saban that were making a title contender out of Les Miles this year, maybe the focus should have been on this: Saban's record. In a world of where you get what you pay for, Alabama shouldn't be surprised. Following the loss that gives LSU the lead in the Southeastern Conference West and a clear path to the SEC championship game in December, the Crimson Tide is now 6-3. And that's where this all gets interesting. In Saban's 13 previous years as a head coach before arriving in Tuscaloosa last January, only three times has he led a team to a season with fewer than three losses - 1990 with Toledo (9-2), 1999 with Michigan State (9-2) and 2003 with LSU (13-1). Miles will match that in his first three years in Baton Rouge. Tommy Tuberville has done it twice in the last three years with Auburn. I just thought you should know, because after the game, that wasn't an addressed. Saban's time in the interview room was classic, well, Saban. He was gracious in defeat, didn't question one of three replay reversals in the second half that were crucial to LSU's win, but at times was cocky and condescending to questions. Saban was also openly affectionate toward the LSU players that remain from his stay - the ones that beat him. "I talked to a lot of the players after the game," he said. "I know all of those players. I know their families, I know their mommas and dads; it was hard. My initial feeling was it was like you were playing against someone in your family." "I want those guys to do well," he continued. "I'm proud to see them doing well as a football team and I'm proud to see how they developed into very fine football players, and I hope their character has developed that well and they're doing well in school - you can't just throw that away." But you also can't throw away the hype machine that has followed Saban throughout his career.
"Saban's record. In a world of where you get what you pay for, Alabama shouldn't be surprised. Following the loss that gives LSU the lead in the Southeastern Conference West and a clear path to the SEC championship game in December, the Crimson Tide is now 6-3. And that's where this all gets interesting. In Saban's 13 previous years as a head coach before arriving in Tuscaloosa last January, only three times has he led a team to a season with fewer than three losses - 1990 with Toledo (9-2), 1999 with Michigan State (9-2) and 2003 with LSU (13-1). Miles will match that in his first three years in Baton Rouge." any questions?
Where's he gonna go? He is & will remain the highest paid coach in the sport so long as he wins. The only way he leaves is if he gets fired because nobody can't bid higher than Bama.
This picture of Saban showing exactly where it hurts was on the front page of this morning's Montgomery Advertiser. Aww. Who feels bad for him?
If Miles goes 11-2 three years in a row but doesn't bring back a championship whats the fan bases response?
