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This notion of Saban being available at the end of the season....

Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:30 am
Posted by mike4lsu
Baton Rouge,LA
Member since Sep 2005
1990 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:30 am
IS a wild fantasy for Tiger fans.

Firstly
[1] He is 74 years old and how long can he coach
[2] He is the GOAT and has nothing to prove. This will be his post retirement hobby. I do not think he will have the same fire and intensity.
[3] NIL levels the playing field and his superb ability to recruit and create a disproportionate competitive advantage will be blunted. That is why he quit in the first place.
[4] Please remember $9.5 million × 6 = $57 million in buyout is untenable in the era of NIL for a poor school with a poor alumni base in a poor state.
[5] If you offered the previous guy $9.5 million over 10 years, Saban will want $13 -$15 million over the next 10 years even at 74. So the total price will be:
$200 million over the next 10 for a poor school in a poor state with a poor alumni base ( We do not have Michael Dell, Jerry Jones, Sam Walton or oil billionaires )
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 8:32 am
Posted by eelsuee
2B+!2B
Member since Oct 2004
4538 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:39 am to
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 8:41 am
Posted by JimTiger72
Member since Jun 2023
15403 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:41 am to
It was something Greg McElroy mentioned on his radio show to get attention… it worked. Now let’s move on. If he coaches again, it would be at Bama
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
18614 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:43 am to
Some people saying he’d go back to Bama. I call BS. If anything, he goes back to the NFL for shits and giggles.
Posted by Tiger2tiga
Member since Sep 2023
1113 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:23 am to
We have TODD GRAVES! lol so buy more chicken
Posted by spiderman
Member since Jan 2004
1354 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:44 am to
After Kelly loses at least 3 games again this season I have no problem firing him and paying Saban whatever he wants. LSU can afford it.
Posted by ELLSSUU
Member since Jan 2005
7946 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:47 am to
Every summer someone drums up a clickbait story. Welcome to this years.
Posted by DeathByTossDive225
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2019
6101 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:48 am to
He was falling off at the end there for a while.

Riding legacy & image/perception of the program he’d built at Bama. Still losing games they had no business losing.

Loved the guy here, but no thanks even if he was available (he won’t be).
Posted by Wing T
Joint Base Andrews, MD
Member since Aug 2022
588 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:57 am to
quote:

He was falling off at the end there for a while.

Amazing what happens when fields are leveled. NIL made what he was doing from 2000 to 2023 legal. Same thing happened to Bear Bryant when he couldn't have football players on golf, swimming and etc scholarships.
Posted by KennesawTiger
Your's mom's house
Member since Dec 2006
8007 posts
Posted on 7/15/25 at 12:20 pm to
Why?

He's 74 years old and NIL is still around which is why he retired in the first place.

He ain't coaching again unless he's trying to have a heartattack on the sideline.
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