will saban eat these words ?

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Nick Saban says he doesn't browse the Internet, never sends e-mails or surfs from site to site.
He may have to start soon, if only to follow the persistent rumours about him and his future.
A story posted on NFL.com earlier this week said Alabama "keeps on making runs at Saban" in an effort to convince the Miami Dolphins coach to return to college and take over in Tuscaloosa for the fired Mike Shula. The same story even said an unnamed NFL head coach said Saban is getting closer to joining the Crimson Tide.
So on Thursday, Saban -- who has tried to denounce the story about him potentially going to Alabama numerous times in recent weeks -- again, and adamantly, denied that he's headed back to the college ranks.
"I guess I have to say it," Saban said. "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."
When the stories linking Alabama and Saban began circulating last month, almost immediately after Shula got fired following a 6-6 season, the former coach at Louisiana State said he was flattered but not interested.
He's bristled at nearly every suggestion about him leaving the Dolphins since.
"I don't know how many times I've got to respond to rumour and innuendo," Saban said. "I have no control over that. I've stated what my intentions are and they really haven't changed, so I don't know what the issue is. And I don't know why people keep asking about it. What they talk about over there is their business. But what's happening here is my business and our business, and that's what we're focused on."
Saban acknowledged earlier this month that Alabama approached his agent about its coaching job, but he declined an invitation to talk to the Crimson Tide.
Saban agreed to a five-year contract worth at least US$22.5 million with Miami on Christmas Day 2004. He'll celebrate the second anniversary of that deal Monday night, when the Dolphins -- 6-8 this season and 15-15 in their two seasons under Saban -- host the New York Jets.
It's the home finale for the season, but the players hardly expect it to be Saban's final game in Miami.
"He told us a couple weeks ago that he's proud to be a Dolphin and he's going to be sticking around," Dolphins quarterback Joey Harrington said. "So I take him at his word. I've taken him at his word ever since I came here. He's one of the reasons why I decided to come to Miami. And so, if he tells us he's going to say, I trust him. But on the other hand, there's a lot of job offers out there and he's a tremendous coach."
Saban went 48-16 in five seasons at LSU, won the 2003 BCS national championship and went 92-42-1 as a college head coach. He turned down several overtures from the NFL before coming to Miami.
"I don't control what people say," Saban said. "I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here."
The Saban-to-Alabama story isn't the only one on the Internet right now raising the ire of the Dolphins' coach.
Sportsillustrated.com, in a story dated Wednesday, quotes former Dolphins quarterback Gus Frerotte as saying Saban wanted to bench him for the final game of the 2005 season "because I had a bunch of incentives on the line, and it could have saved the organization money."
Frerotte, in the same article, said Scott Linehan, the Dolphins' offensive co-ordinator last season and now the head coach in St. Louis, where Frerotte signed to play this season, talked Saban out of that plan. Frerotte wound up starting, and the Dolphins ended their season with a 28-26 win at New England.
Saban, just as he did with the Alabama story, strongly denied Frerotte's claims.
"That's absolutely not true," Saban said. "I make those decisions. Scott Linehan doesn't make them and he didn't make them here. And maybe somebody told Gus Frerotte that to get him to leave here, but that is absolutely not true."
 
Miami Dolphins head coach Nick Saban could be the recipient of a $40 million offer, including $7 million in a signing bonus, from Alabama. That's what the Miami Herald was reporting last night on their website. The offer would make him the highest-paid college coach in the history of the world, and not more than a handful of NFL coaches would be making more.

The offer from Alabama is either a last-ditch attempt to save themselves from the embarrassment of being spurned by their top 19 choices for head coaching position, or Saban is telling Alabama something different than he's telling the media.
 
Nick Saban spent the last few weeks insisting
he would return as coach of the Miami Dolphins. Now he's not so
sure.

Alabama has targeted Saban as the leading candidate for its
vacant coaching position, reportedly offering a deal that would
make him the highest-paid coach in college football.

The Mobile Press Register reported that the Crimson Tide offered
Saban an eight-year deal worth between $35 and $40 million.

Saban met with Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga on Tuesday to
discuss the offer from Alabama and will announce on Wednesday
morning whether he plans to stay with Miami or go back to the
college game.

"Nick told me he needed another day and would hold off on making
any announcement until 10 a.m. on Wednesday," Huizenga said.
"I agree with him and understand more now what he's thinking
about than I did before we met today (Tuesday)."

Saban, who has three years left on his contract with the
Dolphins, did not speak to reporters following his meeting with
Huizenga.

After firing coach Mike Shula in late November, Alabama
contacted Saban's agent Jimmy Sexton to gauge the coach's
interest in the job. The Crimson Tide then started to court
West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez, who decided to stay with the
Mountaineers.

Alabama then made another offer to Saban, who proclaimed last
week that he was "not going to be the Alabama coach."

But now that is more than a distinct possibility. If it wasn't,
then Saban would have announced on Tuesday that he was
fulfilling his contract with the Dolphins.

Miami has failed to make the playoffs in two seasons under
Saban, who has compiled a 15-17 record. After closing Saban's
first year with a six-game winning streak to finish 9-7, the
Dolphins slipped to 6-10 this past season.

Saban was a successful college coach at Louisiana State and
Michigan State. He guided LSU to a national championship in
2003 and compiled a 48-16 record in five seasons with the
Tigers.

Alabama is coming off a 6-7 campaign after losing to Oklahoma
State in the Independence Bowl.
 
Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban needed another day
to consider a job offer from Alabama.

Saban met with Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga at the team complex
for 10 minutes Tuesday and asked for more time to decide.

"The meeting went good," Huizenga said. "We had a quick
meeting. We had a nice conversation. Coach asked if we could defer
the decision until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. And then he went
into several reasons as to why he wanted to do that. I agree 100
percent with his reasons. I understand more now what he's thinking
about."

Saban smiled and waved at reporters as he left the complex, but
didn't stop to talk. For weeks he denied interest in the Alabama
job, which became vacant when Mike Shula was fired in late
November.

"I am not upset," Huizenga said. "I love Nick Saban. I hope
he stays. I'm optimistic."

After two season in Miami, Saban was considering a deal that
reportedly would make him the highest-paid coach in college
football. He has three years remaining on his Miami contract at
$4.5 million per year.

If money doesn't sway Saban, a preference for the college game
may. He won a national championship at Louisiana State and is 15-17
with the Dolphins. They went 6-10 in 2006, his first losing season
in 13 years as a head coach.

Saban weighed the relative merits of the NFL and college in a
November interview.

"I really like coaching pro football," he said. "The
relationship with the players is great and being in the most
competitive league in terms of competitive balance is fantastic.

"There is a great spirit and sense of community that you get in
college football because of people's ties to the school. There is a
lot of gratification gained from making an impact on young men 18
to 22. I really enjoyed that.

"I really couldn't choose one over the other. I've enjoyed each
experience."

Huizenga can be persuasive when dealing with coaches. He talked
Don Shula into retirement in 1996, talked Jimmy Johnson out of
retiring three years later -- Johnson lasted one more season -- and
was able to lure Saban to the pros in 2004 after other NFL teams
had failed.

Dolphins cornerback Eddie Jackson said Saban's return next
season would be good news.

"It's hard to start over," Jackson said. "It's going to be
hard to build on this season with a new coach.

"I know it's a hard decision for him to make. We'll just see
what's going to happen. It's a business, and anything can happen."

Huizenga has said he received repeated assurances from Saban
late in the season that he would return in 2007. And Saban issued
frequent public denials of interest in moving to Tuscaloosa, such
as on Dec. 21, when he said: "I'm not going to be the Alabama
coach."

Speculation about Saban taking another job was a perennial topic
when he coached at LSU and, before that, Michigan State.

After Saban turned down the Tide in early December, they offered
the job to Rich Rodriguez, but he decided to stay at West Virginia.

Alabama lost last week to Oklahoma State in the Independence
Bowl to finish 6-7.
 
Born in Hollywood, Fl. and growing up a Dolphin, I hope he stays awhile. I do think he could do some great things for Bama. That's some pretty good smack! Slinging that kind of dough around, they will find someone and get back on top of the sec. 7 national titles is pretty impressive!
 
russ s said:
future of alabama ?????
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Alabama ain't got no future, other then Russ Spence making cleaner roofs, LOL

Just like the Miami Hurricanes, the ride is over, IMHO.

The SEC is just too hard a conference, and Alabama will never dominate it like in years past.

Even Bill Parcells couldn't "save" the Tide.
 
DOG said:
that's a lil to harsh ...^^^^^^^

saban wont go back to college..that would be like an accomplished chef who started out flipping burgers taken a job in the fry station?!! imo

wtf
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Bama back in it's day was great.

But, so where the 49 ers when they could cheat the salary cap.

The NCAA stepped in, and restricted scholarships.
Used to be the "powers" gave hundreds of scholarships, then cherry picked.

Now, it ain;t like that anymore, and that is why smaller schoopls suddenly are competitive.

Look at Boise State ?

Look at Louisville and Wake Forest ?

IMHO, teams like Miami and Alabama will never again be what they once were, no matter who is coaching them.

Alabama will be a competitive SEC team again, to hope for any more is wishful thinking.

The SEC is an incredibly tough conference, no one team will ever dominate it like Alabama once did.
 
If he does go to 'Bama, does that mean he will have to marry his sister?
 
I have a question.

Will the SEC ever be able to produce a national champion in football again?

As competitive as the conference is, we beat up on each other and don't have the won-loss records to be in the championship game without controversy.

It won't be easy, but I will be rooting for Florida in the championship game.

Happy New Year Everyone

Go Hogs Go!!!!!

Chuck
 
...I could see him going back to college just for the fun of the game....just more spirited in college, esp. in the South. Within three years, he'll have bama up near the top, no doubt. There is so much football talent in the deep south, and he's such a good recruiter he'd have no choice but to be successful. Then head out into the rest of the country and find a QB and he's good. Heck, Tennessee is successful and they have ZERO in-state talent. That shows you how much talent the deep south has to boot.
 
Money talks and bull**** walks.
 
I don't blame him,money makes the world go around!
 
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