Sore subject time: Nick Saban

At 7 mil a year I'm sure it's a pretty big bed. That and he can afford sleeping aids if he needs 'em.

 

I wonder if that thought even crossed his mind before he accepted the offer there. He seemed surprised by how much hate that resulted in.

 

Only over the past three years though. People forget the quality Alabama teams that Les defeated.

 

I completely understand why he did it. I just can't imagine doing something that disloyal.

If he'd waited and ended up coaching Tennessee, for instance, I wouldn't have a gripe with it. It wouldn't have even had to be a different conference, just someone we don't play every year.

The second-best opportunity I could think of for that season was he could have stayed in Miami and coached the Canes starting in '07. He would have had the benefits of a southern climate without having to adopt an accent and call his wife Miss Terry and all that nonsense.

 

So if every job in the SECW except ours was open, you're saying he shouldn't have considered any of them?

 

I think all of us would have take the $4 Million deal that Bama was offering. Even the most ardent lemming pumpers wouldn't be stupid enough to turn that kind of money down. I could understand the hatred of Saban if he had left LSU to go directly to Tuscaloosa but after 2 years with the Dolphins the Bama job was the best college job available.

 

Ultimate measure is nc, followed by h2h, big wins, wins, SECC, and stuff like that. That list of disparity continues to grow longer.

 

Fin Fans were threatening his families lives for what he did to them, no way he could have resided in Miami.

 

He just made friends everywhere he went, didn't he?

They were just kind of mediocre, as they mostly were before and since. I don't know why people would have gotten worked up about that, but I guess he didn't exactly endear himself.