Christmas Miracle? Nick Saban retiring?

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What does Paul Finebaum say about this? He would know. His head is so far up Saban’s @ss, he could tell you what he had for supper last night.

I actually called Paul once and waited on the phone over 30 minutes to ask him if he makes Nick breakfast in the mornings. He hung up on me.
 

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I hope he sticks around and goes 0-12 next year or Billy makes him squeal like a pig in the SEC championship game. Either way I'm tired of this fuching guy.
 

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A couple of things.

1) This thread is MOM. I broke this story nearly a month ago here on Gatorchatter. Here’s the link.

Is this Nick Saban’s final season in Tuscaloosa?

2) The shyythead author who posted this at Roughing the Passer (not my fellow GC member) is trying to ride my coattails a month after the fact.

3) The aforementioned shyythead owes me royalties for stealing my work.
 

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Might explain Clemsons situation this year. Dabo is checked out.
Might not be the replacement Bama chooses and then he will be in the same post-NFL-pipedream loser Mullen found himself in- unable to dig out of the team funk he created. Clemson is in a deep hole.
 

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He said when he signed the three-year contract extension in June that it would be his final. My guess is now if he notches a Bama sixth. The only thing preventing that would be him having too much fun, and we all know how much fun Nick is.
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Who’s going to want to follow Saban’s act? Bama people say they’re divided on Dabo.
 

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Dabo will be the first call and they will offer him God money. I'd say it's 50/50 but think he probably says no. The expectations are way too high at Bama. He can continue to be a living legend at Clemson and worshipped by the fan base, keys to the town, all that. Or he can sit in Nick's shadow and have half the fan base perennially calling for his ouster for failing to win another conf and national championship, rinse, wash, repeat every single year he comes up short.

I'm of the mindset Bama has a long hard fall from grace because the top guys will be very hesitant to go there due to that expectation and lose lose type situation. For these reasons my theory is they end up with a dude who's relatively ok with taking a massive payout for 3 seasons and a termination. The standard Saban set is simply too high and no one else will come close to it, thus be branded a loser when they could do the same at a different school and be celebrated.
 

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Dabo will be the first call and they will offer him God money. I'd say it's 50/50 but think he probably says no. The expectations are way too high at Bama. He can continue to be a living legend at Clemson and worshipped by the fan base, keys to the town, all that. Or he can sit in Nick's shadow and have half the fan base perennially calling for his ouster for failing to win another conf and national championship, rinse, wash, repeat every single year he comes up short.

I'm of the mindset Bama has a long hard fall from grace because the top guys will be very hesitant to go there due to that expectation and lose lose type situation. For these reasons my theory is they end up with a dude who's relatively ok with taking a massive payout for 3 seasons and a termination. The standard Saban set is simply too high and no one else will come close to it, thus be branded a loser when they could do the same at a different school and be celebrated.
So Mullen then?
 

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I really think they would try. Meyer would say no.

I think he’d be a wildly unpopular choice. I don’t think Bama fans would have any kind of stomach for Meyer drama.
 

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I'm of the mindset Bama has a long hard fall from grace because the top guys will be very hesitant to go there due to that expectation and lose lose type situation. For these reasons my theory is they end up with a dude who's relatively ok with taking a massive payout for 3 seasons and a termination. The standard Saban set is simply too high and no one else will come close to it, thus be branded a loser when they could do the same at a different school and be celebrated.

I'm guessing Saban's replacement will be Mike Tomlin. By Sherlock Holmes logic, i.e., after you're eliminated all the other possibilities, what remains, no matter how unlikely it seems, is the answer to the puzzle.

Never had a losing season. One of the very few coaches who you would not expect to experience/allow a post-Saban recession.

When he says "We'll do pro concepts, and can develop you for the NFL," 5-star high school kids will believe him. If he maintains the Saban infrastructure of support analysts, recruiting will not fall off.

Obviously the challenge would be getting him to leave the NFL to try something a bit different. The opportunity to be acknowledged as the greatest black college football coach of all time, based on national championships won, could be that lever. He's only 49 years old.
 

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I'm guessing Saban's replacement will be Mike Tomlin. By Sherlock Holmes logic, i.e., after you're eliminated all the other possibilities, what remains, no matter how unlikely it seems, is the answer to the puzzle.

Never had a losing season. One of the very few coaches who you would not expect to experience/allow a post-Saban recession.

When he says "We'll do pro concepts, and can develop you for the NFL," 5-star high school kids will believe him. If he maintains the Saban infrastructure of support analysts, recruiting will not fall off.

Obviously the challenge would be getting him to leave the NFL to try something a bit different. The opportunity to be acknowledged as the greatest black college football coach of all time, based on national championships won, could be that lever. He's only 49 years old.
you think Mike Tomlin would ensure no drop off post Saban? Let me know what brand of meth you're smoking.

Tomlin is an avg coach backed by a fantastic organizational structure and great scouting and drafting. He would be a nobody at a lot of other stops. And he's never coaching college ball anyway.
 

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I think he’d be a wildly unpopular choice. I don’t think Bama fans would have any kind of stomach for Meyer drama.
They care about winning. Those Bama idiots would take him over someone like Dabo in a heartbeat.
 

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