Who's next for Bama?

I think the Bammers should hire Randy Sanders.

He can at least beat Tennessee -- he caused more Vol losses while he was their OC than any opposing coaches did!

 

But High School Arrogance becomes Division-I swagger...

I think Rush Propst is full of Rush Propst, but I would think he'd be a good hire...

 

Jerry Moore at Appalachian State is an excellent football coach, but he's 112 years old. The guy at Youngstown is interesting though, because he comes from that Darth Sweatervest coaching tree. Another interesting I-AA guy who should get serious I-A looks is Furman's Bobby Lamb. You could argue that Bobby Johnson has worked well for Vanderbilt, and Johnson comes right from that same Furman tree.

And TigerVols, rumor had it that Randy Sanders was more than a little interested in that Tennessee Tech job but lost it to hometown boy Watson Brown.

 

Or...it just confirms the notion he's a coach best-suited for the college game.

He'd go in there, be a hardass, put the Tide thru Junction Boys 2, bully everyone around him and have an entire state eating out of his hand in no time flat.

 

No way Coughling works down here... too much pr work with the boosters for mr warmth...

 

Jim Grobe.

 

The Giants are pretty warm and fuzzy (aside from their PBJ-spewing defensive end) and Coughlin has capped his contempt of all those around him long enough to make it work.

Barring another expansion team in the NFL, Coughlin is done in the league after this year. He strikes me as the next Pete Carroll, without, of course, the efferviscent personality.

 

Exactly. He'd go over like selling porn out of the Baptist bookstore.

Meanwhile, people who should have enough sense to know better keep insisting Saban is in play, despite the fact that he has conjugated the phrase "I'm not coming" in every possible permutation. Mostly, I think it is Jimmy Sexton trying to see if he can be the first agent ever to get a raise for a last-place NFL coach by keeping Saban's name in print.

 

From the AP story on Hoover's loss in the title game today:

Having built what he referred to as a "dynasty" at Hoover, Propst said he already has had "indirect" contact with UAB about the head coaching job vacated by Watson Brown.

Propst also mentioned the possibility of becoming offensive coordinator at Alabama, which is looking for a head coach, or at Auburn if Al Borges leaves.

 

Five titles and two-runner-ups is close to a dynasty to me...
And he;s hired an agent to deal with the college jobs...
But since there's no head coach at Bama, the OC talk is nothin but pure Rush pomposity

 

I hate to say it, but Bama really needs to hire Saban. Whatever they pay him will be well worth it. I don't give a shit if it's $10 million a year. It'll be worth it in the long run.

And let me tell you why. What has killed that program more than anything else is the hiring of incompetent people who have one qualification -- Bear Bryant once spoke to them. It's insane the number of people who work in that athletic department who have no identifiable skills. These dopes are basically no different than the nuttiest of the UA fans -- they all believe it's 1975 and the Tide should be winning a national title every four years.

If they hire a guy like Saban, he comes in and immediately spots the problems. Because trust me, they're not hard to see. Mike Shula spotted them inside a week. Saban would have them nailed down before his first presser was over. And with the power and control Saban would have, those worthless shits would be gone. Once they're gone, they're gone for good, because nobody in their right mind would hire any of these people to do anything of any importance in an athletic department.

I don't see it happening, though. Mainly because I think what I've said above played a big part in Saban not taking the job in the first place. (And yeah, those negotiations were much farther along than "they talked to Jimmy and Jimmy asked me and I said no.") If it's not a big-name coach, we can expect to have this discussion again in 2010, because no up-and-comer can overcome that athletic department. I don't give a shit how good he is.