|
Replies: 30
| visibility 2,401
|
Orange Blooded [2488]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1796
Joined: 12/20/01
|
|
|
|
 |
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
3
Mar 6, 2024, 11:48 AM
|
|
He couldn't dominate in the current NIL world so he quit. Now he's making excuses for his inability to adapt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5809]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5376
Joined: 9/5/10
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
11
11
Mar 6, 2024, 12:07 PM
|
|
The man is 72 years old. It isn’t like he quit at 45. If anybody has earned the right to disagree with the direction of college football I’d put him at the top of the list. And what more could he have accomplished? Absolutely nothing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5081]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2558
Joined: 1/10/16
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
Mar 6, 2024, 12:43 PM
|
|
Agree. Age and all the success are heavy weights to carry.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Team Captain [490]
TigerPulse: 62%
Posts: 701
Joined: 8/5/03
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
Logical fallacy, much?
Mar 6, 2024, 1:26 PM
|
|
That's how you peg your credibility meter on zero.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [21614]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 23420
Joined: 8/16/03
|
Lol, step back and think about what you just did. Really think.
6
6
Mar 6, 2024, 12:59 PM
[ in reply to Re: Saban says more about his retirement... ] |
|
The greatest coach in the history of college football, who is 72 years old, who had his team in the playoffs, barely losing to the eventual national champs decides to retire for totally understandable reasons... and you, message board guy, have the audacity to dismiss it that way? Cmon man.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
None of that counters anything I said.
Mar 6, 2024, 1:07 PM
|
|
He was used to dominating with under the table payments and using them to stockpile 5 stars. That gave Bama more depth than most teams and kept many of those players from playing for the competition.
He was great - great at using the bogus system that was in place then.
Again, NIL went a long way to get that old system gone. Good riddance.
Age doesn't matter. The inability to adapt does. Lots of great coaches had that problem. Urban Meyer, Spurrier, Lou Holtz,
even Mack Brown.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [21614]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 23420
Joined: 8/16/03
|
They finished 3rd in his final year. 5th the year before that. 2nd before that.
5
5
Mar 6, 2024, 1:15 PM
|
|
And they won the natty the year before that.
What the **** are you talking about? He finished elite. Nobody has a superior last 4 years than that. He just hated how the culture caters now more to NFL fans and a more hollow student athlete experience. Maybe you don't appreciate the things college football has lost, but there is nothing wrong with those of us who see college football is now worse than the NFL in every respect. There is even less loyalty and stability in college than there is in the NFL.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
He wanted to be #1 every year.
Mar 6, 2024, 1:24 PM
|
|
2nd and 3rd were disappointments for him.
He knew that winning it all was going to get much more difficult with NIL, transfers starting to leave Bama, and the SEC getting tougher with Texas and Oklahoma joining.
Add that to his old payment system being nullified by NIL and it's no wonder he's whining about it.
And...the Bama love in a Clemson forum is disgusting
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
Complaining about what college football has lost...
Mar 6, 2024, 2:35 PM
[ in reply to They finished 3rd in his final year. 5th the year before that. 2nd before that. ] |
|
...is like the best horse drawn buggy maker complaining about Henry Ford's newfangled Model T taking stability away from his industry in 1908.
The new state of affairs has created more interest that any off-season in decades.
It is also well on the way to ending decades of exploiting college athletes for entertainment, while the schools, conferences, and the NCAA made millions of dollars from their labor. It's past time that the athletes got fair market value for their labor and the risks to their futures.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1045]
TigerPulse: 92%
Posts: 2083
Joined: 4/7/22
|
Re: Complaining about what college football has lost...
Mar 6, 2024, 7:56 PM
|
|
This off-season doesn't have any more interest than previous seasons.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
Riiiiiight.
Mar 7, 2024, 8:40 AM
|
|
Bwahahahaha!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Standout [320]
TigerPulse: 94%
Posts: 176
Joined: 12/14/17
|
Re: None of that counters anything I said.
Mar 6, 2024, 1:27 PM
[ in reply to None of that counters anything I said. ] |
|
Followed by an even better post defining your ignorance. You sir are a liability to the right to pen.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
Sucking up to a Bana coach on a Clemson forum...
Mar 6, 2024, 2:30 PM
|
|
How embarrassing for you!
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1045]
TigerPulse: 92%
Posts: 2083
Joined: 4/7/22
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6934]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4321
Joined: 1/26/10
|
|
|
|
|
|
Standout [320]
TigerPulse: 94%
Posts: 176
Joined: 12/14/17
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rock Defender [56]
TigerPulse: 98%
Posts: 46
Joined: 2/4/24
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
5
5
Mar 6, 2024, 12:34 PM
|
|
What a great article! It’s definitely unexpected that Saban would say some of these things but he is saying much of the same that others are thinking but are hesitant to say out loud. He and Dabo are on the same page. Now it’s time to change the craziness before we can’t do anything about it
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
We can't do anything about it.
Mar 6, 2024, 1:08 PM
|
|
It's time to adapt or die for college sports., especially football.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10475]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 11566
Joined: 6/29/01
|
The #### we can't. We, as the fans, most certainly can.***
Mar 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1045]
TigerPulse: 92%
Posts: 2083
Joined: 4/7/22
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1020]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1188
Joined: 1/3/19
|
No, it isn't. It's a pair of mutually exclusives
Mar 7, 2024, 8:43 AM
|
|
One or the other. Adaptation is the key to survival. Mother Nature called to confirm.
So did every business person in the country.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4304]
TigerPulse: 96%
Posts: 3168
Joined: 11/7/22
|
when the NFL removes the college requirement and NFL scouts go to HS games
Mar 6, 2024, 12:40 PM
|
|
they will reap what they sowed
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3639]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5124
Joined: 4/23/19
|
The NFL loves the 3-year college requirement
Mar 7, 2024, 8:29 AM
|
|
Only way it changes is for the NFLPA to demand change on the next CBA and that is extremely doubtful.
This is one thing the league and the union agreed on.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-Pro [695]
TigerPulse: 98%
Posts: 1440
Joined: 10/8/02
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
Mar 6, 2024, 12:44 PM
|
|
I'm so glad we have Dabo, and are the counterculture on all the stuff Saban laid out.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [12547]
TigerPulse: 86%
Posts: 12248
Joined: 11/21/11
|
Don't blame him for hanging it up. Its becoming a lost
Mar 6, 2024, 7:38 PM
|
|
sport.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [65514]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 33279
Joined: 12/3/03
|
Sad commentary on college football that this NIL / Transfer situation was at
Mar 7, 2024, 8:33 AM
|
|
least a major factor in running off the best coach to ever do it. It will be beyond interesting to see what actually transpires at Alabama following these revelations. The players can't be happy about being called out in such a manner, even though I have ZERO problem believing it happened exactly as Coach said it did.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3639]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5124
Joined: 4/23/19
|
Alabama's specialness ended when Saban retired. These words won't...
Mar 7, 2024, 8:38 AM
|
|
affect anything there at all. They will fall back to the mean.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [65514]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 33279
Joined: 12/3/03
|
I believe they are in for a major tumble, as well. Deboer may do a great job,
Mar 7, 2024, 8:45 AM
|
|
but it is much more likely that he just becomes another example of "You don't want to be the one that follows a Legend."
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3663]
TigerPulse: 51%
Posts: 2388
Joined: 4/12/01
|
Re: Saban says more about his retirement...
Mar 7, 2024, 10:05 AM
|
|
He's was fed up and right
but nothing will be done
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 30
| visibility 2,401
|
|
|
50
