re: Would Saban have won more titles if he had stayed here, than he did at Alabama?

Exhibit A on why the offseason is the worst of times.

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Bo Rein

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This remains a curiosity. Bo Rein had a good record as coach of a second-tier ACC school, but it seems many on this board regard him as a man with mythological powers as coach, who could guarantee championships. There's nothing in his small oeuvre that would suggest that.

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Saban probably would have added a couple more

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Oh, at least. Saban's resurrection of a moribund program which hit rock-bottom in 1999, to winning an SEC Championship just 2 years later, and a national title in two more years, is the stuff of legends. His turnaround of a lackluster Alabama program after arriving in 2007 is impressive, but not spectacular like what he achieved at LSU.

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gets Les 2-3

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At least one more obviously. But Les was gonna Les, and he lost several games due to poor clock management and poor decisions late in games. But overall there's a lot good to be said about Les's 11 1/2 year run at LSU.

Yes I fully believed he would’ve won a minimum of 6-7 titles here.

No because there is not a world that exists where he does not go the NFL before 2010.

He likely leaves after we win the 2006 title.

Every year he won, he would have won at LSU. Think of keeping Louisiana talent and plucking guys like Julio Jones from Bama.

No way.
The Alabama thing was right place, right time.
He could have gone 95% of other places and that wouldn’t have happened. Lightening in a bottle for his style and methods to be matched up with a place like bama.

Yes we probably would of had a shot a couple, but that Bama would be too much to compare with.

I wanted that prick Saban gone from LSU.

Every year he wanted a raise and every year he got one.

Every year he flirted with whichever NFL job was open and it was starting to hurt recruiting.

I remember when he signed an extension, got a raise, interviewed with the Jacksonville Jaguars and then lied about it to Skip Bertman all in the course of one week.

I predicted he would fail in the NFL but must admit I never thought he would do it so quickly and end up at Alabama. I thought it would take a couple of more years and he would go to Florida State once Bobby Bowden pulled his pants up to his armpits and started driving around Miami in the right lane with his left turn signal flashing.

Great take and probably correct.