re: Saban wanted to come back to Michigan State according to book

Posted on 7/26/15 at 2:49 pm to shutterspeed

Posted by Ralph_Wiggum

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Posted on 7/26/15 at 2:49 pm to shutterspeed

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I wouldn't doubt that Sexton kept some irons in the fire for Saban, but to think Saban had already checked on LSU at least a year in advance is pretty farfetched.

A good agent is always doing groundwork for his best clients. Plus, Saban moving again and again must mean better paydays for Sexton.

I would not be surprised if Saban had multiple chances to leave LSU during his time here. Who knows who many contract extensions or raises happened due to this.

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Posted by BigBrod81

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Posted on 7/26/15 at 2:57 pm to Ralph_Wiggum

He was flirting with NFL when he was at Michigan St. before he even came to LSU. He was a threat to bolt to the NFL from day one of his hiring at LSU.

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When the Giants fired Dan Reeves after the 1996 season, they eventually hired Jim Fassel. Before hiring Fassel, the Giants interviewed Saban, who at the time served as the coach at Michigan State..

“We were very impressed with him,” John Mara said of Saban. “We offered him the job.”

Taking it a step farther, the late George Young, G.M. of the Giants at the time, told John Mara and his father, Wellington, that Saban was “the best candidate [Young had] ever interviewed.”

The problem is that Saban wanted control over personnel and the coaching staff. The Giants didn’t want to give the coach that kind of power. And so the process of negotiating a contract broke down before it ever got very far.

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Imagine Bill Polian, Peyton Manning, and Nick Saban all working together. Or at least trying to.

It could have happened, and it would have happened if Polian had his way.

In the excellent new Nick Saban biography, Monte Burke explains that Polian wanted to hire Saban to replace Lindy Infante.

Polian met with Saban, who at the time was coaching Michigan State, and Polian liked what he heard from Saban.

“I was prepared to offer him the job,” Polian told Burke.

The talks broke down, as they did a year earlier with the Giants, because Saban wanted control over personnel and the coaching staff. Which is merely a glimpse of the friction that would have emerged if three guys who like to control everything — Polian, Saban, and Manning — had been working together.