re: Remember who Saban recommended as his successor at LSU?

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but e could not recruit... look at all the programs he had... took other coaches players and made them play very well.... then 2-3 years in had no talent rosters.

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He had 9 years of pretty decently sustained success at freaking Arkansas, though. I suspect Miles's recruiting "prowess" was little more than working with the program Saban had left here. Working with what we have is about as apples to oranges as you can get when compared to Ark and Ole Miss.

Look, I'm not lamenting that we didn't get Nutt when Saban left. I just don't think suggesting him amounted to some horrible act of "sabotage" by Saban to sink the program on his way out the door. That's much sillier than the idea that Nutt could have possibly had some sustained success here.