re: So Saban will Dominate the SEC.....

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Expect a surprise late BCS crown title/ late/new recruit player or two for Bama via titles spoils in the next few months. And a spike for next year.

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I'd be willing my posting privaleges that, with a successful '10 year, that LSU has a better '11 class than Alabama.

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So Saban will Dominate the SEC.....
for years to come.

Why didn't he do so at LSU? This is legit. All I see are posts from Ms. Cleo's assistants that Alabama will win the West for the next 34 years because there's no one to stop him.

He didn't do so at LSU. Why is that?

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I'm so sorry I missed this thread. Saban is in a better position now than he was at LSU. When he came to LSU in Dec. 1999, the coaching world knew how good of a coach was, but the high school coaches and recruits in the South did not. Saban proceeded to build the dominant program at LSU. (That 9-3 record you listed in his last season would have most certainly been 10-2 if he wasn't already the head coach at Miami). People were able to negative recruit against him somewhat with "Saban will go pro," because it was eventually going to happen.

Fast forward to Jan. 2006. Nick Saban takes the Alabama head job, and immediately every top recruit in the country knows who this guy is. He is not going to be going to the pros because he's already tried it. In just his 2nd year at Alabama he went undefeated in the regular season. In his 3rd season at Alabama he is 13-0, SEC Champs, the 1st coach to ever take 2 different programs to the National Title game, and about to win his 2nd National Title. He does not have any other great program to go to because he is already at the top of the montain "realative to" (you like that Saban-ism?) power, control, and he will get whatever he wants at Alabama.

Meanwhile, his main competition in state fired their coach after losing to Alabama for the first time in 7 years. The program he built into a national power in Baton Rouge is coached by a guy who asks the state patrolman if he had a time out left after the clock runs out on him. The SEC West is Saban's until somebody steps up and hires a coach that can compete with him.

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people are saying Saban actually got better in many phases

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He did. 2001 vs. Ole Miss, Nick Saban got booed in his own stadium for sitting on the ball while losing before the half. After their 3rd loss of the season, LSU unleashed Rohan Davey and Josh Reed on their opponents for the rest of the year and rallied to win the SEC and Sugar Bowl. Look at his game plans at Alabama. He's not afraid to take a few chances now. They threw while at the goal line on 3rd down vs. Auburn in the last minute of the game, when a FG would have given them the lead. He came out vs. LSU and Florida passing the ball, not trying to play a punt and field position game.

The guy is on his "A" game right now.

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I won't say he will win the West every year.

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These were the people that I was particularly calling out.

Considering La's expected bumper crop of 2011..you are trying to make a rigged wager.

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Considering La's expected bumper crop of 2011..you are trying to make a rigged wager.

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Actually going to be a really good year in Alabama too. Some think the best in a decade or so.

Wait until he loses all of Shula's players-THEN we will see how well he can do.

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So Saban will Dominate the SEC.....
for years to come.

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Nah.. All of those senior defensive studs that Shula recruited will be gone this year, along with McClain.