That’s fair. when it comes to CFB, Saban is the goat, but 90+% of his job is recruiting. When given a roster of relatively equal talent at the NFL, he was mediocre and flamed out, quick.
Ok, but at that point he had done it for many years and at a championship level. What rg3 envisions for someone is different than someone being able to do it. Example: 1st round draft pick tim tebow
Touché. But I still contend that what Saban did/does at a championship level is recruit. Could he coach circles around a complete novice like Tebow? Of course. I think Tebow would be a greater recruiter. Recruits are young enough to remember his college career and what good, southern, god fearing parents would have reservations putting Christian poster boy Tebow in charge of their kid? That said, no way it happens. It’s too big of a risk and finding decent coaches willing to work under basically a figurehead coach would be tough
The class of 2023 would’ve been like 4 years old when Tebow was a senior. I’m sure there’s name recognition but it’s a stretch to think they remember him playing.
Twitter has taught me that SMU is salty about losing their coach to TCU and now dislike their former coach and how he left like they do Chad
I’ve been through a coaching search where I dreamed to get Peyton Manning as the offensive coordinator/QB coach. And the last one where I went fuck it, “Let’s just see if Peyton will take it.” But media figures weren’t saying should do that, and it is objectively a better idea. Peyton would probably be a good recruiter if he was interested in it. But he is far too rich to be getting on zooms and texting 17 year old kids everyday. Peyton is one of the best football minds of the last 20 years. Tebow is not.
It seems like it’ll be a massive upset if Dickert doesn’t get the Washington State job. Good for him if he gets the gig.
Washington’s fan base big selling point for attracting a good coach was that they would inherit 5* QB Sam Huard. 10/20 135 yards 3 INT Edit: just threw another INT on a 2-pt conversion attempts if ya wanna tack that on.
The next 24 hours is either going to be pure joy for tiger fans or a kick in the dick from Sebastian Janikowski
this idea than Saban was a failure in the NFL is really lazy. That dolphins team was trash. He went 9-7 and had drew brees lined up as his QB for year 2 but the dolphins medical staff wouldn’t sign off on it so he went to New Orleans. Then Miami gets Daunte Culpepper who gets hurt 4 games into the season. The dolphins went 6-10 with Joey Harrington starting 11 games. Saban is an elite recruiter and you need to recruit at an elite level to be at the top of college football but Saban is also an elite coach. No coach can win in the NFL without a QB.
I wouldn’t say he was a failure. But his coaching style seems to have a much more successful reaction to younger kids that’s he’s teaching the game too as opposed to someone like Jason Taylor or Zach Thomas when he questions his toughness and he almost fights him
Apparently about $2mil of that amount is one-off retroactive salary or part of his signing bonus. So the $9mil figure is a bit misleading, although it's not like $7mil is all that much better.
This is the thread for the 2021 coaching carousel. Miami talk belongs in the 2022 coaching carousel thread.
The idea that Nick Saban is almost all recruiting and surrounds himself with other people to do coaching is a take I would expect from a 12 year old girl who doesn’t even watch football.
they have a team meeting every Friday night before a game, just like every other program. Riley isn’t going to LSU. He was never going to lsu. These internet tigahs trying to will these dumb rumors into reality.
Matt Campbell to USC? Saw on a VT message board that their boards were saying that, and that it was being announced on Monday? He's a top tier hire imo -- wish VT hired him over Fuente in the first place.
Sounds like UW offered him/planned to offer him, but was told no that he is going to USC. granted this all message board talk, but aligns with this
This is interesting... https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/20...campbell-turning-down-usc-nothing-public-yet/
I'd love this... Not getting my hopes up, but I'd love it. Also, there are posters on TSL who actually think Huff is a better choice, which is absurd. It's laughable to want Huff over Campbell at this point in their respective careers: Choice 1: Guy who has unprecedented success in 2 different jobs at places extremely hard to win or Choice 2: Guy who, in his first season as a HC, had one more loss than his predecessor the season before him.
bunch of teams gonna be hyping up the additions of former Bama offensive assistants this offseason. If there's not major turnover on the Bama coaching staff I'm just gonna assume Saban is content to make commercials the rest of his career
the iowa st insider said today that campbell had rejected usc not sure if he's accurate or anything, obviously