Has Bama given up???

It is awfully quiet in Tuscalosa. What the hell is going on? Are they still hoping for Saban to lose his mind and take the job? Does Paul Johnson really have a shot, would he really take it if offered?


:hmmmm:

 

They'll make Saban an offer when his season ends Dec. 31. I'm a bettin' Saban accepts.

 

No way Saban says yes IMO. He was at freaking LSU kicking ass...now he's with the Dolphins and things are starting to come together. Why would he go back to Bama? Makes no sense.

I do know that, according to rumors, several of the people on Bama's list are currently in the NFL....of course they are still praying for Saban.

 

From LindysSports

Que the twlight zone music...........




Alabama coaching search takes bizarre twist
Cook's Corner
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Ben Cook
LindysSports.com
The coaching search at the University of Alabama has taken a strange twist, one that could have far reaching effects on three and perhaps four Southeastern Conference schools and one Conference USA school.And it all comes down to a group of power mongers who have no business being involved at all. In fact, their involvement could even lead to trouble down the road for the University of Alabama itself in an entirely unexpected way.The group is the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, a group headed by Chancellor Malcolm Portera and driven by Paul Bryant Jr. There are others of course, but those are the two names most often associated with the Board.All along, members of the Board have hidden behind the excuse that Alabama athletic director Mal Moore and UA president Robert Witt and consultant Chuck Neinas were in charge of Alabama's coaching search. It is becoming increasingly apparent that they are not, that the Board of Trustees is pulling the strings behind one of the strangest coaching searches in the history of college football.

Everything came out in the open last week when the UAB Blazers of Conference USA were ready to hire LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher as their head coach. All that remained was ironing out the details. It was to be for $600,000 a year, most of which was going to be covered by some influential UAB supporters. But then the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system (which includes the University of Alabama, UAB and UAH) stepped in and said that UAB could not hire Fisher. They claimed it was because of financial considerations, but that excuse doesn't hold water since the bulk of Fisher's salary was going to be covered by boosters.

Apparently, the Board of Trustees realized UAB was about to hire the most coveted assistant coach in the country. They realized It also could mean that UAB might wind up with a better coach than Alabama, and the idea panicked the Board of Trustees. They decided that couldn't happen, so they stepped in and overstepped the boundaries of a Board. They took the hiring of UAB's coach right out of UAB's hands. Not only did they not allow UAB to hire Fisher, they then imposed their own handpicked candidate on UAB. They strongly suggested Neil Callaway, Georgia's offensive coordinator, was the acceptable choice for UAB.

The Board will deny the Callaway link, but after the Fisher debacle there is no other explanation for UAB turning to Callaway, a former Alabama player with no head coaching experience that no other school on the planet was looking to hire. Fisher had no head coaching experience either, but he has been coveted by schools before and will be again; Callaway has not. Fisher is thought to be the next Bob Stoops waiting to happen; Callaway is not.There is one other possible explanation. The Alabama job is still open and there are plenty in Tuscaloosa who believe Nick Saban is going to leave the Miami Dolphins after Miami's season ends. If Saban were to actually take the UA job, perhaps he would bring his old offensive coordinator from LSU with him, and that would be Jimbo Fisher. Then, in four of five years when Saban got the inevitable itch to move on, it would be an easy move to elevate Fisher to the head coaching job at Alabama, which could be what the UA Board of Trustees wants all along.That way they could achieve two goals--they could get one of the hottest coaches in the country at Alabama and simultaneously knock the pins out from under the UAB football program, making sure it continued to struggle along until perhaps just giving up the ghost and dropping football. That would delight the University of Alabama Board of Trustees.

Now, I've explained the scenario that includes three SEC schools -- Alabama, LSU and Georgia -- and one Conference USA school -- UAB. So where does the fourth SEC school come in? There is a school of thought that believes Arkansas ultimately could also be involved.

There has to be a reason the Nick Saban rumors continue to linger at Alabama. Most believe it is because Saban's agent, Jimmy Sexton, is the man pulling all these strings like a puppeteer. It is also believed that Sexton has another coach in his stable that could be a fallback position for Alabama if -- or when -- Saban says no. At that point, some believe Sexton will say, "Hey, here's an idea..." and pull Arkansas coach Houston Nutt out of his hip pocket for the Alabama job. Sexton accomplishes a couple of things with this scenario: he keeps Saban's name in the news and he rescues Nutt from a troubled situation in Fayetteville.

Oh, and finally, there is one other scenario that could come into play. If you will recall, Auburn faced accreditation problems from SACS because of misdeeds from some members of its Board of Trustees, namely meddling in Auburn's coaching situation. Although SACS has recently reaccredited all three of the schools in the Alabama system, that doesn't mean they can't get back involved. At the moment, SACS is watching with interest the shenanigans of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees in the Alabama--and apparently the UAB--coaching searches.

It could still work out well for everybody. Alabama might wind up with a good coach and Neil Callaway could turn out to be a good head coach for UAB, but the University of Alabama Board of Trustees is only concerned about the first half of that scenario.

 

has alabama considered the Apple State coach, ol' whatshisname?

 

after seeing TCU last night, that dude's stock just went up imo.

 

I read that earlier. That's totally fucked up. UAB had a killer coach lined up with little money going out for him. The board says no because they don't want UAB to start gaining momentum / headlines / and even recruits.

The whole FB situation in Bama is corrupt. It's absurd.

 

you've tried to buy a bridge before, havent you?

 

You don't think that boosters forcing Shula out...Boosters getting Bama on probation...BOT blocking a great hire for UAB is corrupt? Ok...

Or are you saying this was all fabricated? If you think it was...you need to take off the Crimson glasses.