re: Did saban try to come back to LSU before going to bama

That's what I've heard, he wanted to come back to LSU. But we had already moved on with Miles, so Saban couldn't come back here. That's how he ended up at Bama.

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Yes. LSU told him know they were not going to fire Miles.

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I wish they had fired Miles then championship or not. LSU was good in the early Miles years but you could tell he was a bafoon from the jump. The final years of Les were like needles to the eyes.... There ... I said it.

Yes he did. Board of supervisors voted it down. This is a fact. It was not Skip

He did reach out to Richard Gill, one of our biggest boosters at the time, may he rest in peace. Saban told him that he was about to take the Alabama job unless LSU would hire him back. Mr. Gill told home we couldn’t fire Les, he had just finished with a 10 win season.

I talked to a person, supposedly in the know about this a couple weeks ago. He claims that LSU would have taken Saban back, but Alabama offered him a ton of money and he took the money. The supposed offer to let him come back and his agreeing but going to Alabama instead is why my source can’t stand Saban.

I’m not sure if I believe it.

It was a not so well kept secret that Saban always wanted to come back and at times was practically begging to in the back channels… it was really Alleva who was putting a halt to this and it was part of the reason he was let go.

Bullshite. Saban was hired as the coach at Bama 20 months before Alleva was hired at LSU. Timeline is fubar.

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Yeah, skip told him to kick roxks

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They will deny this but I can tell you that this is true. Skip didn't want him back. You have to realize that the AD at BAMA (Mal Moore) lwent to Fort Lauderdale and would not leave until Saban agreed to the job at BAMA.

This was done while MIKE SHULA was the BAMA coach and Nick was struggling with the Dolphins.

SO...the BAMA AD, went to Ft. Lauderdale and spent many days there convincing Nick to go to BAMA! He was ready to ditch his current coach in a heartbeat. Mal Moore knew what Nick could do at Bama= What he did at LSU and more...

NOW LSU:

Nick reached out through Richard Gill, head of TAF at the time and Skip told them that they were going to honor the current contract with Miles.

So you can worship Skip all you want for the baseball championships etc. But when it came to doing what was best for the football program he fricked us and fricked us hard.

I will NEVER hold Skip Bertman with any respect outside of his baseball wins, and if it meant Nick would have been here, and won 5 or 6 more championships in football, then you can have those baseball wins and do that Bama does: they don't care about baseball.

Skip fricked us good.

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Yeah, skip told him to kick rocks

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He said, No Thank you, Id rather kick some Tiger arse, and he did.

What an idiotic and inaccurate post.

For the few small brains in here, there's a huge difference between, we don't have an opening and kick rocks.

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So you can worship Skip all you want for the baseball championships etc. But when it came to doing what was best for the football program he fricked us and fricked us hard.

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Miles was doing fine at the time. Skip was also tired of the Saban job hoping rumors at the end of every season. Miles had just won 11 games and finished #3 in the nation when Saban went back to Bama. It would have been a terrible look to fire Miles at the time.