Nick Saban retiring
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Right On! A matter of perspective. Between Bryant and Saban (1983-2006), Alabama won a National Championship (1992), won 3 SEC Championships (1989, 1992 and 1999), won the SEC West (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1999), won 10 or more games (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2005) and won 11 Bowl Games (including a Sugar and a Cotton). The problem was that they were inconsistent and had some stinker years in there too - including 5 losing seasons (1984, 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006). Saban stopped the slide.
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If Norvell is at FSU they are taking the autobid most years and I doubt Clemson gets an at large unless both them and FSU go undefeated and they lose in the conference championship game
I don't think either of them will be the choice. The more I think about it, I think Jedd Fisch will be the man.
This is a very important hire. Alabama is a good job, but no job is good enough to win at an elite level without the right coaching. Just look at Texas. Add in the factor of who wants to be the guy to replace the legend and things get extra interesting.
Yeah this is pretty massive. Dabo a couple years ago makes sense but the last two years plus his crazy comments don’t make him that appealing.
The other thing is that unless they get a NFL coach like Vrabel, they are most likely going to be taking from the ACC (nail in the coffin) or stealing from the SEC which is going to open up another job.
Michigan will promote from within if Harbaugh leaves but the bama hire is going to have major ripples.
I have no idea why Ryans would leave the Texans. C.J. Stroud is about to win rookie of the year, and that's a good, young roster with a QB on a cheap deal that could compete for championships as soon as next year. And if Stroud is the real deal, there's no reason you couldn't have a long and lucrative run there.
Most new NFL coaches would kill for such a situation.
I bet the AD had more warning that we think. And he will have already had a list of possible replacements, just like every other AD worth a damn has in their file cabinet.
Also, knowing what a master leader and planner Saban is, he probably has already identified a guy (or three) he sees as his successor and the AD would be in on that too. I'd be shocked if Saban hasn't been doing his succession planning for 5 years...
What school is putting more players in the NFL than Alabama year after year. It's not Michigan for sure, no kid picks a school to attend because it's close to an NFL city, if that was the case, Rutgers would be a national powerhouse. Kids pick schools because they want to play for championships and because they can use that to get to the next level. They are not spending the rest of their life living there, only 3 to 5 years, and then they move on. No, it is not easier to recruit southern kids to the north, even with NIL, when they could be getting that same money from a school in the South.
You have come up with reason after reason to why Alabama will fail after Saban gone, none of which is true, the bar is very high, but they have plenty of money in their athletic funds and are one of a handful of universities that can grab 4/5 star recruits all across the country. Make a good hire, they drop down some, but only back to the level that LSU, Michigan and Ohio State are currently at, before it was Clemson and Alabama, then it was Georgia and Alabama, now it's just Georgia at the top for a while, but that will end also. Michigan will lose their coach this week to the NFL, and if not, they will be losing a ton off their roster, so they will not be in any better shape than many, as of today, its Georgia's championship next season.
The idea that Demeco Ryans would leave Houston and what looks to be a really good franchise QB is one of the more humorous suggestions but maybe Ryans is into masochism.
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I'd be surprised if any AD actually has that list. That's just not how managers work.
Michigan is losing a ton of their roster? That’s news to me and everyone else.
You do realize that before saban got there Bama was an after though in cfb, kind of liek Nebraska the past 15+ years. Great history but a non factor.
Bama is able to recruit the top classes because of Saban’s track record of putting people in the NFL. If the new coach comes in and keeps them in the playoff every year and wins some big games they will be fine. If they don’t they turn into USC/Texas/Michigan after bad hires which is no where near the status they were at under saban.
1. That's a very large chasm. Close rounds do not make close fights and the difference between Alabama of the past however many years Saban was there and the next level over that same time period is massive.
2. They could lose a ton. They could also return a ton. They will return something in the middle.
Yeah from all the reporting too this was also very sudden, bama just doesn’t go out and get publicly shut down by Lanning if they had been playing/informed of this move for awhile.
They're possibly more done with Dabo than without. Dude doesn't like NIL or the portal. He liked it much better under the table like the Lord intended.
Can't remember anytime in football history where 3 of the top coaches ever have all stepped down from there coaching duty's in about a 24 hour period. Pete Carroll, Saban, and Grumpy up in New England. Thats pretty crazy.
According to this site they were playing a lot of seniors and kids that will go pro, so ya, I would say they are losing a lot. Please you are really comparing Alabama to the current Nebraska team? Hell they won a national championship after Bryant retired and before Saban was hired. Mike Shula won 10 games there, no, they were never close to what Nebraska has become for over a decade.
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Nah not really. The issue is most of the guys are not expected to be drafted high. There are only about 2-3 guys expected to go in the second round or earlier. Most are later round draft picks that have eligibility left. There is also the free covid year that they all have so the senior designation isn’t very accurate.According to this site they were playing a lot of seniors and kids that will go pro, so ya, I would say they are losing a lot. Please you are really comparing Alabama to the current Nebraska team? Hell they won a national championship after Bryant retired and before Saban was hired. Mike Shula won 10 games there, no, they were never close to what Nebraska has become for over a decade.
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Totally get how you get to that conclusion though.