Coach Saban Retires

EDT said:
Last team to beat Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa
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After Nick Saban dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows him a little two-bedroom house with a faded Alabama banner hanging from the front porch. "This is your house, coach," God says happily. “Most people don't get their own houses up here." Nick looks at the house, then turns around and looks at one sitting on top of a hill. It's a huge, beautiful two-story mansion with white and burnt orange marble columns and huge pastures on either side with huge Longhorn cattle grazing. Longhorn flags line both sides of the driveway and a huge Longhorn banner hangs between the marble columns. "Thanks for the house, God," Nick says. "But let me ask you a question. I get this little two-bedroom house with a faded banner and Sarkisian gets a mansion with Longhorns grazing and Longhorn banners and Longhorn flags flying all over the place. Why is that?" God looks at him seriously for a moment, then says, "Nick, that's not Sarkisian’s house. That's mine."
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Only thing missing is a spectacular burnt orange sunset.
 
cnb said:
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They know the football program instantly goes on life support no matter who follows Saban. The fan base will be unwilling to accept that the new guy is good enough no matter how many wins unless it's a national championship and eventually will run that coach off. Then the next coach will be even harder to find leaving them wandering through the desert for a decade or so until they move on to the acceptance phase that not many if any will be like Saban. Only then will the program rise from the ashes of a legend.

Ask Fred Akers how that works.
 
Vol,

In the case of Saban, neither he nor his close friends start day one trying to "poison" the new hire.

To his credit DKR was more than instrumental in hiring Mack Brown
 
EDT said:
Last team to beat Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa
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After Nick Saban dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows him a little two-bedroom house with a faded Alabama banner hanging from the front porch. "This is your house, coach," God says happily. “Most people don't get their own houses up here." Nick looks at the house, then turns around and looks at one sitting on top of a hill. It's a huge, beautiful two-story mansion with white and burnt orange marble columns and huge pastures on either side with huge Longhorn cattle grazing. Longhorn flags line both sides of the driveway and a huge Longhorn banner hangs between the marble columns. "Thanks for the house, God," Nick says. "But let me ask you a question. I get this little two-bedroom house with a faded banner and Sarkisian gets a mansion with Longhorns grazing and Longhorn banners and Longhorn flags flying all over the place. Why is that?" God looks at him seriously for a moment, then says, "Nick, that's not Sarkisian’s house. That's mine."
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Pomspoms said:
just another unnecessary negative post.....to which you are entitled.
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So...this is a positive post? Too bad you don't recognize sarcasm. Ignore function is there for you.

:facepalm:

Edit: Not sure what I did to you, but I think you are a good poster and don't really like animosity. Whatever I did, sorry.

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horninchicago said:
So...this is a positive post? Too bad you don't recognize sarcasm. Ignore function is there for you.

:facepalm:

Edit: Not sure what I did to you, but I think you are a good poster and don't really like animosity. Whatever I did, sorry.

:beertoast:
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I am not sweating this.
sometimes I miss sarcasm.
most of the time when I poop it's not emotional. its not personal. just poop and go on.
 
Over the years I have gravitated from
being someone who didn’t like Saban — the ego (I didn’t want him at Texas, obviously an error in judgment on my part) — to now having a more positive opinion of his personality. However, he still has the ego.

Given that, could there be a part of him that doesn’t want to see DeBoer win immediately with what Saban built? I say, maybe.

If so, is it possible that while he won’t sabotage anything, perhaps if asked by a player, he may not “emphatically” encourage them to stay…?
 
dukesteer said:
Over the years I have gravitated from
being someone who didn’t like Saban — the ego (I didn’t want him at Texas, obviously an error in judgment on my part) — to now having a more positive opinion of his personality. However, he still has the ego.

Given that, could there be a part of him that doesn’t want to see DeBoer win immediately with what Saban built? I say, maybe.

If so, is it possible that while he won’t sabotage anything, perhaps if asked by a player, he may not “emphatically” encourage them to stay…?
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I don’t know a thing about him but I do know one thing is an absolute. If one is a success, jealous people will declare your arrogance far and wide. You can try to be the nicest guy possible and it will happen anyway.
 
Gylcomer said:
I don’t know a thing about him but I do know one thing is an absolute. If one is a success, jealous people will declare your arrogance far and wide. You can try to be the nicest guy possible and it will happen anyway.
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Yes and when you and/or your program are attacked, even defending yourself is “arrogant”.
 
dukesteer said:
However, he still has the ego.
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I think ego can be a very broad and ambiguous thing. It can manifest as a harsh arrogance or as a creative force of will. I see the latter in people like Saban, those who create something and achieve at a high level.
horninchicago said:
Whatever, Mr. "2023 Prediction Contest Champion".
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Seriously, the nerve of this guy with his fancy Champion banner flapping all over the thread.
 
dukesteer said:
Over the years I have gravitated from
being someone who didn’t like Saban — the ego (I didn’t want him at Texas, obviously an error in judgment on my part) — to now having a more positive opinion of his personality. However, he still has the ego.

Given that, could there be a part of him that doesn’t want to see DeBoer win immediately with what Saban built? I say, maybe.

If so, is it possible that while he won’t sabotage anything, perhaps if asked by a player, he may not “emphatically” encourage them to stay…?
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It’s true that Saban had his own way to run a program and if you were crosswised with that, well that’s not going to go well. Is that ego? Maybe.

However, I noticed how his players play and conduct themselves. They easily could act like arrogant jerks and showboating, but they don’t. All of their star QB’s have been class acts. I presume they are that way because Saban selects them to be that way.
 
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