Ole Miss Newspaper Publishes Column About Saban Being Overrated Right Before Kickoff

Hate hate hate hate...

I get what the guy is saying.....crazy but I get it. Personally I think he’s currently the best recruiter in the game and he’s always focused. He’s a machine. I remember his brief stint in the NFL and his attempt to match his coaching talent against guys on that level and it didn’t turn out so well.

OMG! How dare someone speak bad of Saban? LMAO! Why are so many fans so emotional? Saban is doing outstanding at Bama but can you really say he's the GOAT? Yes, it's a coaches job to recruit....it's the job of the entire staff. But we all have different opinions of what makes a coach great. For instance, I feel any good coach can win games with a more talented team than the opposition but an elite coach can win even without the best talent. Urban Meyer's has been successful and won at a high rate wherever he's coached, not just Florida and Ohio State. Go back and look at Saban's records at Michigan State. When he was in conference where his team did not land elite talent, he was about a .500 coach. He went to LSU with better talent and his career took off! The NFL was unkind to him....frankly because every team has talent. For all the great things we can say about him, we can't name one coaching gig he's had where he was ultra successful WITHOUT coaching a team immensely talented. Doesn't mean he's a bad coach, just not as elite as many claim. Before anyone has a fit, just go look at his Michigan State seasons. What's even funnier is the fact that nobody ever even refers to those years. However, we still hear about Meyer's seasons at Utah and Bowling Green.....because he was good EVERYWHERE he's been. And NO, I don't like Meyer's but because I dislike him doesn't mean I distort the facts. An elite coach wins whether his teams are the most talented or not. Hell, Saban was 7-6 his first ear at Bama....until he started getting elite talent. So the article isn't as off-basis as some think. Funny how a decade of #1 recruiting classes will lead to many championships. Hell, go look at most Nat'l Champs and then look where their classes were ranked in recruiting a few years prior. "In college, it's about Jimmy's and Joe's. NFL is more about X's and O's."

Saban obviously saw the comments.

“With this in mind, five national titles really does not seem like enough in an 11-year period.” Guess everyone has to be a contrarian.

Ole Miss football is and always has been a loser organization.

Saban reads an actual newspaper, not some worthless online media article written by an even more worthless millennial

hey man any coach can have success with most of the top high school players over 4-5 years on their team

That worked out in true "We Are Ole Miss" fashion. Yes, you certainly are.

What a dumb azz article. The Sip.

This is Lsu level of stupidity