Yup, and the best of them are looking at multimillion dollar contracts that they don't want to endanger. Its a smart move.
Technically its the post season, so they're done anyways
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The 2016-2017 NCAA Football Season
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Technically its the post season, so they're done anyways
Season ends when the team is done. Just saying how I view it. Being as I know multiple football players at my college, they are all garbage when it comes to actually learning and never come to class, while I have to pay for my college and they don't. if they get a free education and free grades I think they should do whatever everybody else on the team is doing, which is playing.Yup, and the best of them are looking at multimillion dollar contracts that they don't want to endanger. Its a smart move.
Technically its the post season, so they're done anyways
Most of these bowls should not even exist. Who is watching a majority of them?
They shouldn't I agree. I think all that should matter are the top 8-12 teams playing in bowls.
As long as I am concerned though, I think that as I said earlier still stands in my thoughts. if the team plays, they should play
Missing one game isn't the end of the world. Its a smart business decision on their part. Education is to prepare students for the future, so it sounds like some of those folks learned a thing or two about risk vs. reward.
Who watched Texas Tech play Louisiana Tech in week three of this year? Probably the same number of people that watched Troy play Ohio in the Dollar General Bowl.
Just because a game doesn't have a national audience doesn't mean that it shouldn't be played. I'm certain the players wanted to play in it and the school, students and fans wanted it too.
I'm a big Ohio State fan. Lots of family in and from Ohio. That was just embarrassing. I stopped watching at halftime.
So Kiffin is out and Sark is in as OC at Bama, effective immediately. Didn't see that coming with one week to go to the NC. I know that many Tide fans around here (I mean in Alabama, not MR) have been calling for Kiffin to leave ASAP, but it's going to be a tough role for Sark to jump into so suddenly.
Kiffen out at Alabama, I can't help but think that Saban pulled the trigger because he thought Kiffen wasn't giving 100%
Lane Kiffin out as Alabama’s OC a week before College Football Playoff title game
Lane Kiffin out as Alabama’s OC a week before College Football Playoff title game
You have to wonder how long before Saban jumps back the the NFL. Blowing teams out in college must get boring at some point. This dude wants a challenge.
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The players want to play in the championship. They settle for the no named espn5 bowl.
There are only 4 bowls that matter. Rose, Cotton, Orange, Sugar. And even those have been deluded with the national championship game.
Well Saban will get a challenge against Clemson! There's a lot of hype surrounding this Alabama team, as there should be, but it's highly uncharacteristic to see Alabama players be so cocky. They're usually a lot more reserved. In the past it was usually, "we made it to the championship game, still work to be done" but after the Peach Bowl it was a lot more than that. I hope they don't feel themselves too much knowing they beat Clemson last year. You have Jalen Hurts back there, not Coker, and he has been the one to play highly erratic.
Long term how long can he clean house with the SEC without challenge. Big name NFL teams will come calling again and I wonder how long before he bites.
Yeah I get it. At a certain point, how many championships is enough? If and after he ties/surpasses Bear Bryant, what's the next goal? I don't think Nick Saban will go back to the NFL, when he's done with NCAAF, I think he calls it a career.
LA Tech upset Navy in the Armed Services Bowl this year. Go to the 58 second mark.
It sure looked like this "meaningless" bowl game mattered to them.
Yeah no chance he goes to the NFL. I would say he has surpassed the Bear in subjective terms, but he'll have to coach well into his 70s to surpass the Bear's win total.
300+ wins has to be his goal now and he'll have to continue to dominate at Bama for another decade to get there.
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Isn't Saban in his 60s? I have to believe he's going to be done soon.
Edit: Saban is 65
I don't think he will. I also have doubts that he'll win against Clemson. I think letting Kiffen go, a week before the championship game was a mistake. I think that might be too distracting then keeping him on board imo
As an LSU fan, I can only hope so lol.
Personally, 15 years of observing him (at LSU, Miami and Bama) have me convinced that he's absolutely miserable doing normal human stuff. I think he coaches until he dies.
Good god man..... He is going to die on the playing field. I hope he doesn't but man-o-man!
Paterno and Bobby Bowden probably would have had they been allowed to.
Once you get to that point, I believe a guy deserves to go out the way he wants to (excluding Paterno of course).
When he won his bowl game, they didn't dump Gatorade on him but confetti - I think they didn't want to give him a heart attack
I don't think that Nick Saban will go to the NFL. He's at the pinnacle of college football, and it would be hard for him to duplicate this level of success there. There's also a dimension of coaching that he would have to give up. Despite what you think about his rants and perfectionism, Saban gets genuine satisfaction from teaching his players how to work as a team and approach life. That's something that would be much harder to do in pro ball, working with players who earn millions of dollars and feel entitled to say or do whatever they want.
A more likely scenario when Saban is done at Alabama would be broadcasting. He knows the nuances of the game very well and would do a good job at ESPN or another network.
A more likely scenario when Saban is done at Alabama would be broadcasting. He knows the nuances of the game very well and would do a good job at ESPN or another network.
Agreed, he has nothing to gain and everything to lose. Plus he's learned how to deal with the young kids hungry to be the best, where as the NFL, you have multimillionaires and you cannot use the same motivation and teaching tactics that you used with those kids. I think Saban learned that in last foray into the NFL
When he won his bowl game, they didn't dump Gatorade on him but confetti - I think they didn't want to give him a heart attack
HAHAHA... that is sad, but really funny if you think about it. I can see his players saying something to the effect, do not scare him, do not startle him, do not sneak up on him, and please do not yell at him!