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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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Re: On Nov. 27, 2006, Alabama fired David Shula as its head football coach. Nick Saban was Mal Moore‘s top target, but initially rebuffed the athletic director’s overtures. Moore then turned his attention to Rich Rodriguez, then the head coach at his alma mater, West Virginia. Offered the Alabama job, Rodriguez officially turned it down on Dec. 8 of 2006 to remain in God’s Country.

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"I'm partly responsible for those five national championships because if I had said yes, you wouldn't have had the greatest coach of all time, Nick Saban, winning all those championships."Rich Rodriguez, jokingly suggesting he deserves a statue at Alabama

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ScriptOhio said:


Re: On Nov. 27, 2006, Alabama fired David Shula as its head football coach. Nick Saban was Mal Moore‘s top target, but initially rebuffed the athletic director’s overtures. Moore then turned his attention to Rich Rodriguez, then the head coach at his alma mater, West Virginia. Offered the Alabama job, Rodriguez officially turned it down on Dec. 8 of 2006 to remain in God’s Country.



"I'm partly responsible for those five national championships because if I had said yes, you wouldn't have had the greatest coach of all time, Nick Saban, winning all those championships."Rich Rodriguez, jokingly suggesting he deserves a statue at Alabama

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Imagine if Rich Rod had taken the Bama job. I'm almost sorry he didn't. :lol:
 
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Jake said:
Imagine if Rich Rod had taken the Bama job. I'm almost sorry he didn't. :lol:
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Then Saban ends up, where? It's a fun game of "what if?" What if he ended up in Ann Arbor? Arguably the greatest college coach of all-time. Is that enough to break down the seemingly endless barriers at tsun that keeps them from breaking through the ceiling of "mediocre?" Or, does he run into the same roadblocks that they've had for 3 consecutive coaches now? Does he bail back to the NFL after three or four seasons of going 10-3/9-4? Bammer was a great fit for him because they care about nothing but winning. It seems to me scUM is just fine winning 9-10 games so long as their nose remains relatively clean. I'm not saying Saban is only on top right now because of "bag men", but I think things are much shadier beneath the surface in dixie than up here.
 
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NFBuck said:
Then Saban ends up, where? It's a fun game of "what if?" What if he ended up in Ann Arbor? Arguably the greatest college coach of all-time. Is that enough to break down the seemingly endless barriers at tsun that keeps them from breaking through the ceiling of "mediocre?" Or, does he run into the same roadblocks that they've had for 3 consecutive coaches now? Does he bail back to the NFL after three or four seasons of going 10-3/9-4? Bammer was a great fit for him because they care about nothing but winning. It seems to me scUM is just fine winning 9-10 games so long as their nose remains relatively clean. I'm not saying Saban is only on top right now because of "bag men", but I think things are much shadier beneath the surface in dixie than up here.
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Right time, right combination of people, right place in my opinion.

Belichick failed in Cleveland, as seemingly all humans do, then goes to a place with the right support and the Pats dynasty was born.

Saban wasn't Saban when he was going 6-6 at MSU during a time when you could get kids with a learning disability into school there.

Saban gets the support of an SEC school at LSU and builds a monster. He goes to the NFL and is very average. Back to the SEC and you have Bama.

Belichick and Saban weren't any less of a coach at places where they failed. You have to have the right support/fit within the larger organization. I question if the top brass at tsun, who set the tone for their organizational culture if they like it or not, have the appetite to be a NC contender in today's game. I really don't think they do.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Right time, right combination of people, right place in my opinion.

Belichick failed in Cleveland, as seemingly all humans do, then goes to a place with the right support and the Pats dynasty was born.

Saban wasn't Saban when he was going 6-6 at MSU during a time when you could get kids with a learning disability into school there.

Saban gets the support of an SEC school at LSU and builds a monster. He goes to the NFL and is very average. Back to the SEC and you have Bama.

Belichick and Saban weren't any less of a coach at places where they failed. You have to have the right support/fit within the larger organization. I question if the top brass at tsun, who set the tone for their organizational culture if they like it or not, have the appetite to be a NC contender in today's game. I really don't think they do.
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Agree with everything you said. It's pretty obvious it's a culture thing at tsun. They seem to think they're owed a place at the table because they won a whole bunch in the first half of the 20th century, but don't want to put in the work needed to be a truly competitive national program in today's CFB landscape. I don't think Saban does significantly better than Harbrau up there if it would have ever happened...and he probably tells them to "fuck off" after 3-4 years and bolts for a program down south.
 
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