re: Shaq: If LSU would have paid Saban, LSU would be Alabama

I would love to hear these core competencies

We got Sidell Corley and Phelon Jones initially but they left and turned out to be nobodies

At the time, Saban was the hottest commodity
for the NFL. The NFL was slobbering all over him for every opportunity. The Dolphins gave Saban everything he asked for and Saban failed. The NFL has cooled on Saban and Saban now realizes he can fail. At the time, Saban thought he was a cant miss. Now we know he can.

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We got Sidell Corley and Phelon Jones initially but they left and turned out to be nobodies

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"We" meaning Les Miles at LSU while Nick Saban was head coach at Alabama. Not exactly evidence that Saban had a Mobile Pipeline.
And yea, they never contributed.

Nothing and I do mean NO THING was going to keep Saban at LSU for very long. He wanted the NFL. Period. LSU was just a vehicle to get him there.
The Dolphins offered what LSU could never have matched. More money for one.They had deeper pockets and an owner desperate for a Super Bowl trophy. No matter what $$ LSU had been able to come up with, he was (is?) richer and he could just have upped the ante.

The second thing he offered that LSU couldn't match was ancillary matters like facilities, equipment, staffing, etc. Again the Dolphins had the cold hard cash to give Saban any little thing he wanted.

The third and probably the final item was control. Saban demanded and got full and unrestricted control over all matters relating to the team. He answered only to the owner. This is something LSU could not match. He had tried this same power ploy at least twice before, with the Bears and Giants.There was no way the Mara and Halas (McCaskey) families would give him that.

So the myth that LSU was too cheap to keep Saban is just that, a myth.

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I specifically remember him mentioning in one of his last presser that he loved LSU but worried that one day he'd have 1 down year and we'd want him out.

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No way. LSU would never run off the most successful coach in program history just for losing 2 or 3 games. I just don't believe fans would allow it!

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Would the last 10 years have been better for LSU if Saban had never left? Obviously, if for no other reason than that they wouldn't have had to recruit and play against Saban at Alabama. The last 10 years would've also been better if Saban had not been a terrible NFL head coach. But you can't use something that happened from 2008-2015 to say what someone should or should not have done in 2004. Nick Saban who isn't job-hunting is a better coach than the job-hunting Nick Saban. LSU got the job-hunting one. It is what it is. It took complete failure in the NFL to make him stop treating NCAA as a stepping stone, and there was nothing LSU could do about that.

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This is the best statement I've seen yet on here that supports the fact that LSU should have done whatever it had to do to get Nick back from Miami. Bad PR? Sure. Leave you with a sick feeling? Yeah. But the 10 years after would have proven it to be the right decision. Heck, Bama might have even hired Les. it wouldn't have been the end of his career.

tam and ky had their shot at bear!!

how long are the lsu crybabies gonna regret spilt milk?

30, 40, 50, 60 YEARS???

EITHER remarry or accept this lifetime of suffering!

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how long are the lsu crybabies gonna regret spilt milk? 30, 40, 50, 60 YEARS???

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The answer to this question is this: As long as we continue to consistently lose to a Saban-led Alabama team. Start splitting wins with Bama on a regular basis with no more than 2 consecutive losses to them and Saban loses his luster among our fan base.