Saban a serious candidate for LSU?

[editder]

As a side note to my earlier post I don't think a coach has ever had a field named after them at one school only to come out of retirement and coach somewhere else. Now UF did name their field after Spurrier who later went to USCe but Florida only named the field in his honor in 2016 after he retired from USCe in 2015. Not saying it could never happen but it would seem a bit awkward.

They ought to rename the whole stadium at LSU “Bryant Denny Annex” because we own their butts down there.

 

[22Musso22]

 

[RammerJammer14]

we would have to bring back gary danielson as the announcer anytime he coached lsu on saban field

Only if Tebow is the sideline reporter.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

It's not like he played at Alabama like Coach Bryant.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

It's not like he played at Alabama like Coach Bryant.

so you are saying he is going to be Kent State's next coach?

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

so you are saying he is going to be Kent State's next coach?

No. I’m saying that it would bother me more if he was a Bama grad, he coached Bama and built a dynasty and then coached at LSU. I mean I remember when he was rumored for Texas and everyone got their undies in a wad. Sexton ended up squeezing more money out for him. At the end of the day he was a transient football coach and not home grown.

 

[SeventhHeavenRanch7777@gm]

He always said it was the biggest mistake he ever made. Then when asked at his luncheon one day why Alabama. He said he always had a desire and interest in Alabama. So who knows

 

[Power Eye]

The only place I’ve seen anything connecting Saban to the LSU job are sports books. Yes, there is a reason he has the second best odds and the reason is because there are enough gamblers willing to make that wager for no other reason than it’s Saban and it’s LSU.

 

[BamaInBham]

He always said it was the biggest mistake he ever made. Then when asked at his luncheon one day why Alabama. He said he always had a desire and interest in Alabama. So who knows

The biggest mistake ever made comment was about leaving college football not LSU specifically. Can’t believe there are even a few Alabama fans keeping this joke going. You sound like trolls.

 

[RdunawayTX]

No. These stories are wishful thinking by LSU fans and clickbait by the talking heads.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Go ahead and hire him. All it means is that in 1-2 years you are hiring another new coach. Maybe Les will come back again.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

He always said it was the biggest mistake he ever made. Then when asked at his luncheon one day why Alabama. He said he always had a desire and interest in Alabama. So who knows

"When I left LSU that was probably professionally the 'biggest mistake' I ever made, not because we didn't have success in Miami, because I enjoyed coaching in Miami..." but he also goes on to say he liked coaching in college better because "you could develop players."

But he also continued by saying it wasn't a case "Alabama vs LSU" and cites his agent.

I take it to mean it was a mistake as far as LEAVING COLLEGE FOOTBALL for another place, not that he's touting LSU as a better place to coach (necessarily). In other words, yes, he said the word "mistake", but I'm not so sure we can take it to mean, "You know, if I had to do it over again, I never would have left LSU."

Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't.

But it doesn't matter now.

It's no longer 2003 in Baton Rouge or anywhere else.

 

[BamaMoon]

Trivia question: Who said “I won’t be the Head Coach at Alabama.”

Common on! Context man. That's when he was gainfully employed with the "Fin's" in the middle of a season. I truly believe when he said that he meant it.

Then Coach Moore got on a plane and changed history!

Besides, he was in his early 50s then. He left the best/easiest place he could have won another NC if he wanted to continue coaching.

But let's just imagine he accepted the LSU gig. He's got a 1-2 year implementation of "the process" into that culture again. He's still got to deal with "WHY" he left (NIL/transfers, etc.).

Even if it worked he'll be approaching his upper 70's before the train got humming.

And let's not forget the '21-'23 seasons. The program really started to suffer with his leadership/recruiting.

Bottom line, you can't blame LSU for kicking the tires, but I don't see it happening, but if it does, it's not 2008-2020 CNS.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Common on! Context man. That's when he was gainfully employed with the "Fin's" in the middle of a season. I truly believe when he said that he meant it.

Then Coach Moore got on a plane and changed history!

Besides, he was in his early 50s then. He left the best/easiest place he could have won another NC if he wanted to continue coaching.

But let's just imagine he accepted the LSU gig. He's got a 1-2 year implementation of "the process" into that culture again. He's still got to deal with "WHY" he left (NIL/transfers, etc.).

Even if it worked he'll be approaching his upper 70's before the train got humming.

And let's not forget the '21-'23 seasons. The program really started to suffer with his leadership/recruiting.

Bottom line, you can't blame LSU for kicking the tires, but I don't see it happening, but if it does, it's not 2008-2020 CNS.

I think that was sarcasm by the poster.

 

[BamaMoon]

I think that was sarcasm by the poster.

Maybe, but it doesn't really change what I said.

And if he was being sarcastic, OK, but too many people have cited that CNS quote to try to prove he's not trustworthy.

I'm just glad I don't speak into a microphone all the time and have to defend all the times I've changed my mind about something. It doesn't make you a liar; it makes you a human who considers when situations change.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Trivia question: Who said “I won’t be the Head Coach at Alabama.”

Mike Price?

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Common on! Context man. That's when he was gainfully employed with the "Fin's" in the middle of a season. I truly believe when he said that he meant it.

Then Coach Moore got on a plane and changed history!

Besides, he was in his early 50s then. He left the best/easiest place he could have won another NC if he wanted to continue coaching.

But let's just imagine he accepted the LSU gig. He's got a 1-2 year implementation of "the process" into that culture again. He's still got to deal with "WHY" he left (NIL/transfers, etc.).

Even if it worked he'll be approaching his upper 70's before the train got humming.

And let's not forget the '21-'23 seasons. The program really started to suffer with his leadership/recruiting.

Bottom line, you can't blame LSU for kicking the tires, but I don't see it happening, but if it does, it's not 2008-2020 CNS.

And he might have stayed in the pros if not for the Drew Brees/Daunte Culpepper thing, too.

You never know.

We at Alabama are VERY FORTUNATE he did not stay at LSU. Because the monster he could have built there without having to deal with another in-conference good team (not a "power" but an 8-4 team) would have astounded ALL of us.

A lot of folks really don't understand that if there was only ONE big school in Mississippi (and not two, at times three), they would field a Top 10-15 team every single year. Lane is doing it NOW, if he didn't have to share the talent with bigger fish on both sides of him as well as a competitive one in-state........

 

[BamaHoopsBoi]

I would cry grown man tears if I saw Saban coach somwhere else.

 

[Rush]

The only place I’ve seen anything connecting Saban to the LSU job are sports books. Yes, there is a reason he has the second best odds and the reason is because there are enough gamblers willing to make that wager for no other reason than it’s Saban and it’s LSU.

Nailed it...

 

[BamaMoon]

And he might have stayed in the pros if not for the Drew Brees/Daunte Culpepper thing, too.

You never know.

We at Alabama are VERY FORTUNATE he did not stay at LSU. Because the monster he could have built there without having to deal with another in-conference good team (not a "power" but an 8-4 team) would have astounded ALL of us.

A lot of folks really don't understand that if there was only ONE big school in Mississippi (and not two, at times three), they would field a Top 10-15 team every single year. Lane is doing it NOW, if he didn't have to share the talent with bigger fish on both sides of him as well as a competitive one in-state........

No truer words about CNS staying at LSU.

If he had stayed at LSU from the outset of his career and never left for Miami, Bama probably doesn't have many SECCs OR NCs in that time.

We know he controlled/ruled the SEC with an iron fist and Bama would have at best been the #2 team in the SECW during that time.

And that's being optimistic considering the bad coaching hires we had during the late '90's and early 2000's.

It's very possible that if CNS had stayed at LSU, our last NC would have been in 1992.

And who knows how many coaches we would have cycled through chasing a CNS-led LSU program all those years???