Who is Saban's replacement?

BamaBooey

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but he was just fired for being bad at coaching and has not had to recruit in over a decade.
The owner went in a different direction and was trying to jumpstart a rebuild, hence the AJ Brown trade (when it happened).

He's probably in front line for the Patriots gig anyway.

 

graydogg85

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Feb 7, 2006
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I loved DeMeco as a player and by all accounts he has a bright future in coaching, but a guy with one year of HC experience in the NFL and no college coaching experience is too risky. The last Bama alum we hired who had no college experience didn’t pan out too well. Plus, I think they move quickly (truthfully the guy is probably already hired) and that doesn’t line up with the probable timeline for an NFL coach in the playoffs. DeMeco might be our guy one day and I’d love to see it happen, but I don’t think it happens this time around.
 

twofbyc

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Lanning or DeBoer would be decent choices................I'd love to have Sark
Landing has ties down here - DeBoer doesn’t. I don’t know how he’d recruit.
Another guy from the NW failed at the Barn, and part of it was recruiting.
Run with Lanning - need a good young coach who’s gonna be around a while. If he hires good assistants, Bama may not miss a beat.
 

Perrett4Bama

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Aug 28, 2001
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refusal to use the transfer portal, losing to lower tier teams in your conference, being way to into God, complaining like a Karen about everything, trying to be the players buddy instead of their coach, stealing signals, acting like a barner instead of a Bama coach. I could probably keep going.
One could never be "way to into God":giggle:
 

Evil Crimson Dragon

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Feb 4, 2018
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Landing has ties down here - DeBoer doesn’t. I don’t know how he’d recruit.
Another guy from the NW failed at the Barn, and part of it was recruiting.
Run with Lanning - need a good young coach who’s gonna be around a while. If he hires good assistants, Bama may not miss a beat.
I think it's Lanning,,,,,,,,makes the most sense
 

BJ4TIDE

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Landing has ties down here - DeBoer doesn’t. I don’t know how he’d recruit.
Another guy from the NW failed at the Barn, and part of it was recruiting.
Run with Lanning - need a good young coach who’s gonna be around a while. If he hires good assistants, Bama may not miss a beat.
Valid points, but Saban has made Bama an international brand. He would not just be recruiting the South. He could overcome the lack of connections by hiring assistants who have those connections.
 

MemphisBamaDude

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Nov 12, 2008
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Hell of a football coach. Tough-minded teams. Made Henry king too :). All in all, college football is becoming more like NFL with NIL money and transfer portal being like free agency so might as well go that route.
Derrick was built by Bama. Besides, haven’t we learned our lesson about hiring NFL coaches with little college coaching background?
 

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