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re: Saban - “It was a huge mistake to leave college football”
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:19 am to LSUTIGERS8181
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:19 am to LSUTIGERS8181
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We loved LSU. We worked hard to build the program. If there was one thing professionally that I would do over again, it would’ve been not to leave LSU
Saban inherited a program that just had two losing seasons in a row and didn't come close to an SEC Championship in 15 years. He changed the entire mentality of this program, including the fan base. I believe him when he says this, because he set us up for long term success.
It sucks that he ended up at Alabama. However, even if he didn't want to coach in the NFL, would LSU have been able to retain him in the long run? Would he have stayed under Alleva?
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Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:20 am to Adajax
Saban is old and losing mojo.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:21 am to Chimlim
LSU probably would not have hired Alleva if Saban was still the coach
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:24 am to LSUTIGERS8181
Thanks Nick, but still...
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:26 am to Topwater Trout
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I don’t know why anyone would be mad that he left us for the NFL.
Very, very few people were. In fact he was treated like a hero when he came back to Tiger Stadium his first year as Dolphins coach. LSU fans pulled for him to do well in Miami. Especially when he drafted Travis Daniels. It was like “ok, this is gonna be cool”.
It wasn’t until he decided to take a job in our division that things changed.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:33 am to Cincinnati Bowtie
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The negative recruiting of a Devin White, “you can go to LSU, but we’ll beat you every year,”
He wasn't wrong.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:54 am to Topwater Trout
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Idiots! He left us for the best job offer ever offered to a college coach.
Thats not the conversation is all about. It is about him regretting this decision idiot.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:05 am to RidiculousHype
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he didn’t feel any sense of loyalty to LSU. He was all about himself.
This is the kind of shite Bama fans love to laugh at us for. Boo fricking hoo.
This post was edited on 9/18/19 at 8:05 am
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:11 am to Tiger on the Rag
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He is just settling things on his conscious i think
His “conscious”?!? Are YOU conscious?
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:28 am to Tiger on the Rag
Saban kicked his conscience to the curb years ago.
The man has no conscience.
The man has no conscience.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:32 am to LSUTIGERS8181
That's a strange statement for him to make.
The armchair psychologist in me wonders why? Is he feeling his eventual demise, possibly seeing LSU turn the corner and basically telling himself, "I could have done that", like a father who realizes he can't physically do certain things living through his athletically talented son?
The armchair psychologist in me wonders why? Is he feeling his eventual demise, possibly seeing LSU turn the corner and basically telling himself, "I could have done that", like a father who realizes he can't physically do certain things living through his athletically talented son?
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:36 am to Manswers
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That's a strange statement for him to make
He made it in May, fwiw.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:41 am to LSUTIGERS8181
He knows We Commin
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:42 am to SouthdownsTiger4178
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Newsflash fellow LSU fans...by the time Saban was back on the college coaching market, LSU was on it's way to a second national title in 5 years.
We had moved on quite nicely.
At that particular time, it was a non issue.
I remember rejoicing at the thought of the idiot going to michigan.
if saban wanted back in, I'd have dumped miles in Atlanta at the seccg, or even at the natty, and laughed all the way.
This post was edited on 9/18/19 at 8:45 am
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:50 am to LSUTIGERS8181
frick Saban NICK THE PRICK !!! 
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:51 am to Nix to Twillie
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This is the kind of shite Bama fans love to laugh at us for.
I bet those psychopaths would be real cool with Saban trying the NFL again, only to land at Auburn in 2022...
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Boo fricking hoo
You're more loyal to Saban than he was to LSU when he decided to sign up with our division rival. Sad!
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:53 am to GRTiger
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and still claim to have wanted him fired the following year.
I wanted him fired after the loss to Arkansas in 2007, not going to lie. I definitely wanted him fired in 2008 after the Jarret Lee/Andrew Hatch debacle and going 7-5.
I wanted him fired again in 2014 after getting shut out at Arkansas in route to an 8-5 season
I definitely wanted him fired in 2015 after losing 3 straight games heading into the A&M game.
I finally got my wish after the Auburn meltdown to end all meltdowns
Posted on 9/18/19 at 9:10 am to LSUTIGERS8181
We're Nick's ex-wife that he left for a sidepiece, later realizing she was a megabitch.
By the time he wanted to come back, we were already remarried with kids.
We'll always play the "What If" game but he's tiger bait now. You people who still yammer on about him are dickless whiners.
By the time he wanted to come back, we were already remarried with kids.
We'll always play the "What If" game but he's tiger bait now. You people who still yammer on about him are dickless whiners.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 9:18 am to LSUTIGERS8181
Those of you who are also Saints fans, would you trade the 2009 Super Bowl for multiple LSU championships in addition to the ones we have?
Because while the article alludes to how Saban's decision affected the course of LSU and Alabama, you can also throw the Dolphins and Saints into that mix. But for Saban, Brees likely goes to Miami in 2006 instead of Culpepper.
Because while the article alludes to how Saban's decision affected the course of LSU and Alabama, you can also throw the Dolphins and Saints into that mix. But for Saban, Brees likely goes to Miami in 2006 instead of Culpepper.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 9:20 am to Topwater Trout
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We should’ve fired Miles when he wanted to come back to coach college
At the end of the 2006 season, may people thought LSU was the best team in the nation. Our only losses were road losses to #3 Auburn and eventual NC Florida. After the Florida loss, LSU went to Knoxville and beat #8 UT - only the 2nd win in Knoxville ever for LSU, beat #5 Arkansas in Little Rock and beat #11 Notre Dame in the sugar Bowl. They closed the 2006 season with 7 straight wins and and finished #3 in the AP and Coaches poll. Miles 22-4 record matched Saban's best 2 consecutive seasons.
Saban was coming off a 6-10 NFL season, a last place finish in the AFC East and a reputation of being difficult to work with and never staying any place more than 5 years. With Miles success, all of a sudden what Saban accomplished in Baton Rouge wasn't so impressive. Skip didn't want to deal with having to have his head football coach being poached every year and Jimmy Sexton's fricking games.
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