NCAA: Nick Saban retiring, Alabama to hire Kalen DeBoer

[Tony Romo]

I think it’ll be Lanning. He apparently wants one of the big SEC jobs. He may also wait to see what Harbaugh does at Michigan because it’s been rumoured Kelly may go to Michigan

 

[Scomerica]

I think it’ll be Lanning. He apparently wants one of the big SEC jobs. He may also wait to see what Harbaugh does at Michigan because it’s been rumoured Kelly may go to Michigan

I've heard when Harbaugh goes it's their OC who will take the job,.

 

[nickp91]

We are about to see maybe the craziest coaching search in college football history from Alabama with Saban retiring

 

[Reality Check]

It's clear that Jim Harbaugh broke him.

 

[GKJ]

Saban was around so long he has a tie on his career record.

 

[red devil]

 

[Your Boy Troy]

If Urban Meyer were to ever return to College Football (not that I believe he ever will), this job alone might be enough to entice him. It sure beats the unfounded speculation of him going to Lansing, Michigan (lol).

Anyway, what a hell of a career for Saban. The GOAT. It was just pure domination throughout his Alabama tenure.

 

[HisIceness]

BRB gonna apply for the job

 

[LT]

BRB gonna apply for the job

put me as a reference

 

[HisIceness]

put me as a reference

You can be my OC.

 

[MMC]

 

[Hasbro]

Bama had the two GOATS.

 

[Blitzkrug]

All the casual fans are like "That's it! the Alabama reign of terror is over! finally some parity"

May i introduce you to the university of Georgia?

 

[John Price]

 

[Primary Assist]

I like to think the Machine from Bama Rush forced him into retirement for wearing the wrong color tie to the end of season banquet

 

[DaveG]

I think Saban saw the winds changing. The other conferences doing what the SEC did for years. Paying players. I think the playing field has been even again. If USC don't rise again i'll be shocked. Paid to play in LA as a college kid vs middle of nowhere college town in the south.


Dabo seems to be struggling with the NIL/transfer portal changes

Beat me to it. The SEC teams still have more resources than most programs with their bagmen NIL syndicates, but the fact of the matter is that the playing field will no longer be so lopsided. We're officially in a new era here, and we've already seen the writing on the wall with guys like Roy and Jay Wright retiring in recent years on the hoops side. Now football will start seeing some attrition at the top of the coaching ranks.

 

[John Price]

 

[Troy McClure]

It’s surprising but not shocking

I can't imagine how much is sucks to be a coach now with the transfer portal and NIL thing. Recruiting has always sucked, but now you're not only recruiting high school kids but also the kids already on your team you hope to keep. Your roster for the next season can't have one name in pen because there's a risk any guy could leave.

Coaches are paid more than ever, but the job is also worse than ever.

 

[GKJ]

I can't imagine how much is sucks to be a coach now with the transfer portal and NIL thing. Recruiting has always sucked, but now you're not only recruiting high school kids but also the kids already on your team you hope to keep. Your roster for the next season can't have one name in pen because there's a risk any guy could leave.

Coaches are paid more than ever, but the job is also worse than ever.

We said the same thing about Urb when he left Florida. Urb knew the score. He was losing the war to Saban. And now Saban probably believes the same thing, or at least it ain't worth it anymore. But if he thought he could win it next year, I think he would've stayed.

 

[hockey20000]

bleh if lanning ditches us for bama i am gonna be pissed

 

[John Price]

Alabama's Saban retiring after legendary career

Nick Saban, one of the greatest college football coaches of all time who won seven national titles, six of them at Alabama, has announced his retirement.

www.espn.com

In the meeting Wednesday, Saban thanked his players for the way they bought in and told them that he'd thought out his decision carefully. But with the way college football has changed in terms of the transfer portal and tampering, NIL being used as a guise for bidding for high school players and transfers, and the recruiting calendar being extended, he told his players that the time was right for him to retire.

Sources told Low that Saban had grown increasingly frustrated with "what college football had turned into. He's all about team and building a team and developing players, and now the only thing that seems to matter is who can get what in the NIL and who can get the biggest deal."

 

[John Price]

 

[StreetHawk]

If I'm Dan Lanning, why leave Oregon and all of that Nike money behind the program when you're joining the Big10 to go to Alabama?

 

[GKJ]

If I'm Dan Lanning, why leave Oregon and all of that Nike money behind the program when you're joining the Big10 to go to Alabama?

Why’d Taggart and Cristobal leave? Now multiply that by like 20

 

[Scomerica]

I can't imagine how much is sucks to be a coach now with the transfer portal and NIL thing. Recruiting has always sucked, but now you're not only recruiting high school kids but also the kids already on your team you hope to keep. Your roster for the next season can't have one name in pen because there's a risk any guy could leave.

Coaches are paid more than ever, but the job is also worse than ever.

On the flip side at least we aren't pretending this is about academics. When you see some players interviewed in the NFL, especially from Southern schools that are dumb as rocks and you think how the hell are you supposed to have a degree or have made it so far in college. So much shenanigans before with fradulent testing and money under the table. It's still not great with nil but at least it's more like a business rather than the lame excuse about players going through everything for a scholarship while schools make fortunes from them.