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Could Saban be the first $10M/year college coach?

TBR said:
NFL makes more sense than Texas to me. NFL would be a new challenge. Texas would just be a different version of the same challenge he's already taken on three times.
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Except he's already tried the NFL, and failed miserably at it.
 
LilburnDeac said:
If he wants a challenge, then he should come to Wake. Winning a National Championship at LSU, Bama, or Texas is nothing. Winning one at LOWF would definitely make him the best ever.
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Saban would punch Wellman in the damn mouth his first week on the job. Probably within the first 24 hours.

Thus, the more I consider it, the more I love your suggestion. :)
 
w84it said:
Except he's already tried the NFL, and failed miserably at it.
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Which for a guy with the competitiveness only rivaled by maybe a dozen people on the planet is probably more of a motivator for change than just a change of scenery.
 
TBR said:
Right, which is why it's a more appealing challenge than "rebuilding" Texas.
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"Challenge" has nothing to do with it - Saban learned his lesson the first time that his style of player motivation simply doesn't work when you're dealing with millionaires instead of scholarship athletes.
 
w84it said:
"Challenge" has nothing to do with it - Saban learned his lesson the first time that his style of player motivation simply doesn't work when you're dealing with millionaires instead of scholarship athletes.
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That's not true.
 
w84it said:
There's a reason Saban has spent only 7 of his 41 years coaching in the NFL.
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Because he failed at his 1 try at HC? There are only 32 NFL HC jobs. There are tons of college jobs. There are less than 32 NFL jobs ready to win when they open up, and dozens of college jobs for that bill. Is his dictator style more suited to bullying college kids? Sure, but don't act like hard asses can't be successful in the pros. It's about respect. Frankly, Saban's success at Bama makes him much more worthy of respect in a pro locker room than when he showed up in Miami 10 years ago.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
Because he failed at his 1 try at HC? There are only 32 NFL HC jobs. There are tons of college jobs. There are less than 32 NFL jobs ready to win when they open up, and dozens of college jobs for that bill. Is his dictator style more suited to bullying college kids? Sure, but don't act like hard asses can't be successful in the pros. It's about respect. Frankly, Saban's success at Bama makes him much more worthy of respect in a pro locker room than when he showed up in Miami 10 years ago.
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That's not 7 years as a HC, that's 7 years as an NFL coach of any kind. The man is a college football coach - there is a certain level of control that you get with being a college HC that you simply do not have in the NFL, even if you have GM control (which Saban had in Miami).
 
w84it said:
That's not 7 years as a HC, that's 7 years as an NFL coach of any kind. The man is a college football coach - there is a certain level of control that you get with being a college HC that you simply do not have in the NFL, even if you have GM control (which Saban had in Miami).
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I don't think he leaves Alabama. I think the unfinished business of the NFL would be the only reason he would. Otherwise, what's the point of leaving?
 
I think that IF Saban goes for another NFL team, it will be one that is right on the edge of winning that will be patient with him. Like the Texans a few years ago.
 
It will be to a team that already has a QB that can win a Super Bowl.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I think that IF Saban goes for another NFL team, it will be one that is right on the edge of winning that will be patient with him. Like the Texans a few years ago.
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Like our Panthers
 
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