Who's next for Bama?

Hey now, it's the 24th-BEST record in the league. /nflthoughtpolice

 

I'll agree that Saban is a good coach, but I'm at a loss to understand why Alabama would be interested in him. I mean, most of the success he had at LSU was with DiNardo's players, and so far he's been mediocre with the Dolphins. For this, the Tide wants to hand over the keys to the vault?

 

I've wondered the same thing.

 

Ehh, I don't know about the DiNardo's players thing. Saban is responsible for LSU landing Michael Clayton and Marcus Spears, which caused more blue-chippers to want to stay in state. Under him, the Tigers pretty much sealed the borders. Hell, you can argue that Les Miles has been winning with Saban's players for the past two seasons. DiNardo started to turn LSU football around, but Saban took it to the next level.

 

Saban won a friggin' national title at LSU (well half of one, at least) four years after taking over a moribund program. Why would Bama, or any other school with an opening, not want him?

 

LSU was 33-24-1 under DiNardo. Not great, but not "moribund" -- although they did hit the skids at the end of his tenure.

DiNardo started out 7-4-1, 10-2, and 9-3 in his first three seasons -- startlingly similar to the 8-4, 10-3 and 8-5 rung up by Saban in HIS first three seasons.

Now under Curley Hallman, 16-28, yeah, LSU was "moribund."

 

Because rather than finding a great coordinator, promoting him and letting him be creative, Mal-feasance painted himself in a corner with the "proven winning coach" statement and now he has to go that way.
Think of the parallel -- the Yankees buying other teams' talent at a premium instead of actually developing its own talent and playing them instead of offering up as trade bait.. Both instances offer opportunity for intense ridicule when they fail.

 

Let me say it yet again: Tom Coughlin.

 

He and his staff will be fired in two weeks. Plenty of time to hire them and have them start recruiting. His style of coaching plays perfectly into the college game.

 

But Nick Saba said that he enjoys coaching and teaching young players...

 

Coughlin's tough-guy act never would fly in Tuscaloosa. An aloof Jersey/New York guy making it in the SEC? Better chance of seeing pigs fly past my window tonight.

I'll agree, though, Coughlin's act would work better in college than it's working in East Rutherford.