http://wbgv.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/nick-sabans-agent-contacts-wvu/ He is a WV guy. EDIT: Moved here for interest. -Muck
Bailing on Alabama already, I see. Crimson Tide fans should not be surprised. You hired someone who was willing to bail from another team in the first place.
If he does happen to leave how can any recruit believe or trust him to still be there by the time he is a senior, I think he would struggle mightly if in recruiting if he were to leave Alabama.
I would absolutely LOVE to see this happen. It would tank both programs, not that WV deserves it. But I would love to see the looks on all of those Bama boosters' faces if and when Saban left town. You guys did hear the story about him at a recent booster's meeting right? Some tipsy Bama booster tried to talk to Nick and good ol' Saban flat out said he didn't want to talk to these a-holes and didn't want to be there (at the event). Things don't seem to be working out too well for Nicky these days.
It sounds very unlikely but I was wrong about Saban before.Who knows.The pressure to win the SEC and beat Auburn would be off of him and he would be in his home state where he and his dominating wife could be more comfortable.
You know why I love this? Because it's true. And there ain't a damn thing Bama can do about it because his entire contract is guaranteed! They can't fire him! So unless the Bama boosters are fine with coughing up the $28 million they still owe him, they're stuck with him!
This in a nutshell is a big problem in todays football programs. Contracts are relativly meaningless and everyone is suseptable to being out spent. Everyone should be forced to honor the contracts they sign.
It's up to the employer to put language in the contract shielding them from such issues. You can't stop a guy from quitting. But you can make it damn hard for him to gain employment elsewhere. Hey, it is what it is. And Saban is who he is. So this is on Alabama. It's their fault for (flagrantly) poaching him and guaranteeing the entire $32 million contract. And it's their fault for not getting a pre-nup prior to marrying a confirmed flake and sometime whore. They had to have the dog. Now they're getting the fleas.
If there is one lesson that should be learned in modern sports, it is that if a Coach or player will crap on someone's forehead once, they will do it again and again and again. Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me... Darlin's Nicky with the pages of a Alabama HC Contract.....
As a very big WVU fan, and a native West Virginian, from Bridgeport, which is quite near Fairmont where Saban is from... I have some mixed feelings. Obviously I am skittish about Saban. I honestly think this is bunk....but if he did want to come home...I kinda think this would be his last coaching stop. Why? Well...he has kinda burnt his bridge everywhere else. This would be the one and only place...anyone could somehow explain the decision to move. In the end...I would have to be happy to get Saban.
Yeh but how long would he stay until the next good deal came along or the going got too rough? OT: I'm from Clarksburg.
DO YOU GUYS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS??? THIS IS A JOKE!!!!! no big name coach would ever go to WVU. there are like 12 high schools in the entire state. no chance of winning a national title.
Actually.....the answer to that question is an unknown... But...like I said...if I had to bet, Id think if he made this move...given his WVU ties...hed stay. I love WVU...but its not Alabama or Michagin. I can see a coach leaving WVU to step up....but if one moved down...where else is there to go? The Bridgeport Indians? Like I said...I dont put alot of water into this theory...but if he did choose WVU, I think it would be for the long haul.
jesus i cant believe you guys are believing this! saban is about to get a top-5 recruiting class, and hes making $3mil per year you actually believe he would go to a team that cant recruit in the top-20, and make $1mil a year?????
Hey do me a favor... WVU has played for two national championships....was 1 game away this year. We have won or shared the Big East Championship a number of times. So stowe your Anti WV rhetoric. It isnt the bohunk little state you make us out to be. West Virginians are VERY proud that team..and the state. Even the ones that have moved away have strong ties there.
[mod]Please keep your comments on the post, not the poster.[/mod] Go back and do some research about WVU and its state. Seee how much Rich Rod made....also...you might want to check out where Terrell Pryor has been looking. Although, you probably have no idea who Terrell Pryor even is. Or Noel Devine....
coaches go and coaches come anymore, it is amazing what they ask the football players to go through and deal with as far as work and pain, but they are gone if the money is right or the job is too tough in a heart beat
yeh, WV has came along way. True or not the possible assumption that one of the FINEST programs in the Big East is simply being ficetious.
wow, you actually PLAYED for two championships! you guys are nothing more than another Virginia Tech. thats very nice, but you are not a national powerhouse. that is my only point. i dont know anything about the people or the state, i just know that you will never be able to recruit studs from your state, therefore you will never have elite recruiting classes.
funny you bring up devine, because now that rod is gone, devine is trying to transfer. or how about you go look up WVU's current recruiting class. i see one top150 recruit (jenkins), and that is borderline at that.
Guess who is coaching his conference rival from Western PA. Maybe we will find out who the better coach really is
""""""""as a very big WVU fan, and a native West Virginian, from Bridgeport, which is quite near Fairmont where Saban is from... I have some mixed feelings. Obviously I am skittish about Saban. I honestly think this is bunk....but if he did want to come home...I kinda think this would be his last coaching stop. Why? Well...he has kinda burnt his bridge everywhere else. This would be the one and only place...anyone could somehow explain the decision to move. In the end...I would have to be happy to get Saban.""" WOW...Some people never learn....Nothing against your program (I like WV, for the record) but why would you want a guy that has screwed over so many people? Just for a possibility at a NC? I would rather hire a young, promising guy and feel good about my schools ethics than hire Saban, have him screw me over like he would eventually do, and leave me feeling dirty. I think if he leaves Bama he will never be able to recruit, he will have to jump to the Pro ranks, where another team, just like you did, will actually embrace him.
Hey...I never stated they were a national power house...if you read my posts..you will see I stated that perfectly clearly. And no...we will never have an elite recruiting class...but we have done pretty dog gone good anyways. The entire reason Saban would consider coming back to WVU is because he is from Fairmont, WV. And yes...he would be stepping down from college football's elite, which is why I stated that I didnt think this would happen...but if it did...he would be here for a long time.
only point i was trying to make was that i cannot forsee someone like saban coaching at a school that does not have the ability to recruit top players
If Saban actually bails on Alabama and WVU takes his butt, I'll puke. That move would effectively kill I-A football for me because Alabama and WVU have always been the teams I have pulled for. Alabama is in the penalty box for dumping Shula and hiring Saban (perhaps permanently), so WVU is really my only rooting interest now. I don't see it happening. Marshall might consider him at the right time, but WVU has more sense than this. I have every belief that they'll take a step back and carefully select a coach with WVU ties who they think can maintain the profile of the program as the top Big East school. WVU actually has a very nice recruiting area and a pretty good strategic advantage over schools like Virginia Tech because Morgantown is pretty darn close to DC.
Dude...I have been a WVU fan since 3.... If Saban comes to WVU...Ill have to accept him. But I dont think this is the case. I would bet my money on Bowden.
Bowden definitely has ties of a sort to WVU, and I think he probably has what it takes to keep the program where it's at. I need to go up and see another WVU game some time. My last few were Virginia Tech games, but I saw an awesome WVU-Miami game when Vinny Testaverde was QBing the Hurricanes. WVU put a hurting on that Hurricanes team if I remember right. I mean that literally -- they kept knocking Hurricanes out of the game. Miami won the game, though.
Doesnt sound so second rate to me.... "As a college football coach, Bowden compiled a 111-53-2 record with head coaching stints at Auburn University, Samford University, and Salem College.[3] In his first season at Auburn in 1993, he led the Tigers to a perfect 11-0 season (the team was ineligible for post-season play because of infractions by the previous staff). Bowden's Tigers would run the string of undefeated games until the final game of the 1994 season against arch-rival Alabama and finish his first two seasons with a 20-1-1 record. The win-streak is still the longest in AU football history. During his tenure at Auburn, Terry Bowden recruited 18 players that were drafted into the National Football League, including three players taken in the First Round (NFL Draft History by Team.). In 1997, Bowden's Auburn Tigers were one point away from winning the SEC Conference Title, when they gave up a last minute, 63-yard touchdown pass from Peyton Manning to Peerless Price of the Tennessee Volunteers. The next season, after a string of injuries at the center position and disastrous start, Bowden resigned in the middle of the 1998 season the night before Auburn was to play Louisiana Tech. Bowden was given no assurances he would have a chance to remedy the situation for the next season and believed his firing was imminent when he was told that influential and powerful board member Bobby Lowder was promising the head coaching position to someone on Bowden's own staff (Lowder, five years later, played a controversial behind-the-scenes role[4] in a botched attempt to remove Bowden's successor Tommy Tuberville[5]). Bowden had fallen out of favor with Lowder the previous season. While at Salem and Samford, Bowden coached quarterback Jimbo Fisher to a NCAA Division III National Player of the Year award.[6] Fisher later became quarterbacks coach for Bowden at Auburn, and after much success as the offensive coordinator for LSU, is now the offensive coordinator at FSU for Bobby Bowden. Another quarterback from Bowden's time at Auburn, Patrick Nix is the current offensive coordinator for Miami (FL).
