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Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports
Former LSU and Alabama head coach Nick Saban recently spoke with Kirk Herbstreit about his decision to leave LSU for the Miami Dolphins job and how things could have gone differently.

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biglego8 months
Saban was never not going to try the NFL. The issue was always that when he returned to college, he went to goddamn fricking Alabama. There was never a chance of getting him back after he left the Dolphins but I sure wish he had gone to a non SEC school.
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Bucky_B8 months
it's not THAT he left LSU. it's HOW he left us.
1. Press conf saying i am happy at LSU. i am not taking another job...period
2. Didn't prepare the team for a bowl game against lowly Iowa and we lose
3. Goes completely against his word and flies to Miami from the bowl game without remorse
4. Fails in the NFL and comes back to LSUs archrival.

Prick Saban might be a good coach, but i hope he has had a chance to rethink his morals. That isnt the way a stand up guy composes himself. so im glad he left and will never pull for him again.
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DeafVallyBatnR8 months
Can you imagine the suicides around LSU football the day he retires from LSU if he would have stayed.
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CopiahTiger8 months
If he leaves 2 weeks earlier, LSU gets Spurrier instead of Miles.
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Gaggle8 months
Lol. Spurrier didn’t want that at all. You think South Carolina was his best option? Florida wanted him back. Bama was after him. He could’ve had his pick of the best jobs in the country. He went to South Carolina so he could relax and take it easy
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TD4228 months
Sorry, Gaggle...I'm gonna be the "I got a source" guy...but a friend's dad was on the LSU Board at the time. The story he told us was he contacted Florida about returning and the AD told him to "send his resume in and they would take a look." Spurrier told them to look in trophy case, and hung up. Sounds like Spurrier to me.
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PuertoRicanBlaze8 months
He would've been fired by 2008
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Davy8 months
Worst take on Tiger Droppings
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GoldenGuy8 months
I don’t think he ends up as good a coach without the Miami failure and first year at Bama losing to ULM.
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Morpheus8 months
Yeah he had no idea what he was doing pre Miami
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TouchdownTony8 months
LOL. We knew exactly what we were getting at Bama with Saban. If he wasn’t that coach we wouldn’t have pursued him. We all knew he was the best there was out there. He was never a shot in the dark.
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roll to victory8 months
Spurrier ran him over in 2010. Stephen Garcia played lights out!
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cmjellybean8 months
Kirk’s dog. Lol.
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Davy8 months
He still loves us.
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bluebuck18 months
I said it. Now, he is saying it. He left the NFL, because Miami did not sign Brees. Had he known Miami was not going to give him the keys to the Cadillac, he would have stayed at LSU.
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CodyPasbons8 months
Drew wanted to go to Miami. Nick Saban was adamant that Brees speak to the Dolphins doctors and Drew chose not to. Then he went to the Saints and the rest is history.
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Gnash8 months
Nick keeps Just For Men in business
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OzChuffnugg8 months
It is hard to say, but I think I would take the Drew Brees era Saints and the Super Bowl even if it meant the Bama dynasty. Though an LSU dynasty similiar to Bama's would be hard to pass even if it meant the Saints were still the Aints...and possibly relocated. Tough call!
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Vernonbrew227 months
They are still the ain’ts
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bass8 months
Oh well, water under the bridge. Saban is still the LSU GOAT coach. Glad we got to be a small part of his success.
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Tiger T Rog8 months
Now we can just hate bama
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Pizza Dan8 months
There was so much “will he leave” drama every year. By the time he did leave it was not a surprise and a lot of people were glad because they were tired of the drama.
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davyjones7 months
Oh he’s still going to Texas. Sark to the OC slot at same pay rate as was his HC salary. :lol:
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skylane8 months
LSU makes coaches...... not the other way around.
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Recoveringcajun8 months
And where is Curley now?
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theballguy8 months
Oh LSU, still fretting over this one. What could have been? lol
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DVinBR8 months
So he straight up admitted what we all assumed lmao
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CSinLC8 months
Once heard an interview with Ms Terry on the radio while he was at LSU. She was very blunt in saying that if a good opportunity came along he would take an NFL coaching job.
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Albino Potato8 months
The funny thing I always think about is if he stays in Miami, Les Miles probably wins at least 3 national titles and is viewed as this college football legend. Crazy how much of a Butterfly Effect Drew Brees had on football at all levels.
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RswlGaTiger8 months
I have had this what if he had stayed at Miami with my fellow LSU-Saints fans. If he got Brees at Miami it would also have meant no Super Bowl for the Saints and without that, most likely they would have moved to San Antonio.
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saintslsupels8 months
Yeah all those 8-5 teams with Les would have won a title if it wasn't for Saban lololol
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iwyLSUiwy8 months
Did that really make you crack up laughing? He for sure would have had one more.
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Hmerly8 months
He would have constantly flirted with going to the NFL. It's just something a guy like him needed to experience. I don't think anything would have changed had he stayed that year. He would've been gone the next. It would have been nice if he had come back to LSU after his stint in the NFL, but that was simply not going to be.
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shoelessjoe8 months
Had he stayed at LSU he would have won more NC than he won at Bama.
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theballguy8 months
He might have one more.
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Tygern88 months
I would love to hear your take on how Saban would have only 1 more at LSU if he would have stayed…
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