YOU WOULD COACH ALABAMA FOR ONLY A MEASLY 3 MILLION A YEAR.

O, I cringe everytime someone makes a Miami gangster/villainous city – type reference because it seems like clockwork thereafter that the real thing does occur. Let’s hope we don’t get any late breaking news saying that a ransom note was found for Saban.

If Jimmy Sexton was negotiating for his release, he’d get a higher ransom paid for Saban than the original demand.

can someone send Lloyd Carr one of those shirts via FedEx same day air?

al.com is now saying that Saban has asked for another day to decide.

For somebody who wanted to conduct his search on the DL, Mal Moore is sure playing this a lot more Paris Hilton than Doris Day. If Saban publicly rejects the Brinks truck in the driveway, I don’t know what the hell is next.

There needs to be a Mal Moore Groveling Tour shirt. Will Spreadshirt let you use 0.005 point font?

Jon, Are you saying that Mal is on the down low? I would have never guessed it.

Well, he does appear to enjoy over-paying just to be fucked with.

can I trade in my “No I won’t coach…” t-shirt?

You guys need to make some “Ohio Sucks” or “Ohio Stinks University” shirts for the big game, something that www.sportscrack.com does.

Those seem a little blunderbuss for EDSBS, but I bet the first guy who can gin up a photoshop of a styrofoam cooler with an OSU logo on the side and a roll of Charmin perched on the top will have a winner.

“GO, BUCKS!”

Children, children, children.

Until we see Nick in Tuscaloosa at the press conference it hasn’t happened.

As far as the cash is concerned, hey, paying coaches is legal. At least there won’t be any left for players.

Hmmmm. That could be the first viable strategy I’ve ever heard for keeping ’Bama off probation.

We can ONLY hope….

Finebaum says Saban’s going to Bama, eh? THERE’S an impartial source for you, he of the crimson PJs.

I’ll bet Huizenga has a LOVELY raise in the works for Saban, and he’ll stay with the Fish.

Besides, after the bowl game, can there be ANY other head coach for the Elephants but Joe Kines?

Please let it end so poor Nico can get some peace!

Maybe the Tuscaloosa realtors should trace the hits on their web sites overnite to see if there are hits coming from the South Florida area looking for homes in the 10 million range and above. I mean, they’ve been tracking the Board of Trustees’ planes!

Nick Saban,
Quickly becoming the Larry Brown of the football world. I want to coach here, no maybe over there, boo hoo I don’t like my players. I think he is as good as gone. Brown and Saban both abrasive assholes, change their mind every ten seconds. Saban is a great coach though.

And how much shadier does this make the UA Crimson Tide lackies (board of trustees) and their shady UAB dealings with Jimbo Fisher look. We don’t have 600 grand for your piddly programs coach but we got 4 million for this guy.

all the tiger fans in nawlins are reall pissed that tide may actually get this guy..they say bama doesnt have that deep of pockets .lol tigers

Threadjack alert. Loyd Carr is a crusty sourgrape eating pusswha…

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/SPORTS06/701020396/1054/SPORTS06&template=printart

Love this quote: “As long as you have a president, like they have at Florida, who goes out and campaigns publicly through the media for his school to get in there, rather than allowing the system to work, I think there’s going to be a lot of discontent,” Carr said of Florida’s Bernie Machen, ironically a former U-M provost. “Thank goodness we’ve got a president at Michigan (Mary Sue Coleman) who is concerned about keeping Michigan as the No. 1 public university in the country.”

Please reread that sentence in your best haughty pissy-pants Dan Dierdorf voise.

There is more to this than meets the eye. Sure Saban is a mercenary, the Larry Brown of Football, but he is clearly under duress
http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/nick-saban-a-temporary-solution-to-a-permanent-problem/

Lloyd had better watch out; Bo’s not there to protect him any more. He’s 2-10 over the last six years WRT to the last two games each year, i.e. tOSU and the Bowl Game.

Even the most devoted fans of Bo are getting tired of December and January collapses.

Socal irish,
Nick Saban is a Droog

ZL&S,
Don’t say the “Z” word. I live in Moline, IL, and there are Illini fans who live among me.

That Lloyd Carr quote is absurd. He has absolutely no right to bitch about anything at this point. And the bit about being the #1 public university is even more ridiculous. UM is certainly a great school but it’s hardly an open and shut case. I’d suspect UVA, UCLA, and UNC (among others) might have a thing or two to say about it.

No one should be paid $4 million a year to coach college football. NFL, sure, because it’s a billion-dollar business, but not in a world tied (however loosley) to academia.

I write this in the midst of ND, my alma mater, probably paying Weis somewhere between $3 and 4 million, so what do I know…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners

Didn’t Finebaum also tell us that Spurrier to ’Bama was a “done deal”?

So, according to “sources”, ‘Bama will be coached by SOS, Rod, and Saban? That’s one hell of a team.

I remember the day when Rich “I forgot to ask my wife if I can coach at Bama” Rodriguez was on his way to the Barrio de Tuscaloosa. All over the national media.

Is Saban, who is a greedy bastard, also “pulling a Rod”?

If you don’t kill something it only grows stronger. The NCAA should have given Bama the death penalty a few years back when they had the chance.

The Fish should be happy to dump Saban and his contract. The Daunte Culpepper and Ricky Williams deals certainly paid HUGE dividends.