The biggest problem I have with Saban.

No, it’s not all the preferential treatment his teams got all throughout the years; they earned it.

No, it’s not all the recruits LSU lost to him over the years; he’s the greatest recruiter of all time.

No, it’s not all the games LSU lost to them; our idiot coaches were the cause of most of them.

It’s the fact that we had to, for 17 years, look over at Tuscaloosa and say “what if?”

“What if Saban had never taken the Miami job?” “What if the Miami job had worked out?” “What if Drew Brees’ shoulder was good and he was cleared by the Miami docs?” “What if Rich Rod had taken the Alabama opening?” “What if Bertman had actually said he could come back, as Saban was rumored to have asked?” “What if we had a coach that was even near Saban’s level of prowess?” “What if…”

Losing to him all these years, all these times, knowing that he was once here and had already proven to be a winner and as fate would have it, he left, then went to our biggest rival was easily the worst part of his tenure at Alabama.

I’m eternally grateful for all that he did while at LSU; and respect the hell out of him. He’s the type of coach I would want to play for, and would want my son to play for. But all that transpired since his departure is something that I’m not sure I and the rest of us as Tiger fans is something that I’m not sure we can fully get over.

Sure, we’ve had our moments in the sun and have been a top 3 program since Saban came here. But how many heights did we not reach because we had a Miles or Orgeron running things?

Anyway, frick Alabama. frick their fans. frick their team. frick the SEC home office in Birmingham. frick the whole lot of em.