You've got to be kidding right? First we don' even know if he will come, second we don't know if he will stay, third the price of soda at BD will go through the roof and how long before Tide Pride ask for an increase.
Is Saban worth $5mil a year?
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Alabama Football.....
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Nick Saban-5 mill
Assistants-Bunch of $$
PRICELESS!!!!
NICE, VERY NICE!!
So Nick, the Bama offer is $3.5 mil and there's still a chance that one of the remaining cases contain $5 mil. What'll it be . . .
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Given the forced parity in college football, it seems that escalation in coaches' salaries (HC's and assistants) is only natural as schools take advantage of one of the few remaining "free market" triggers to differentiate themselves competitively from others. In other words, if player talent levels are becoming more and more comparable across a larger and larger number of schools, then it seems that a great HC and a great staff of assistants would be more and more valuable. $5M a year for a coach seems inevitable (around the corner) to me...
Heard on the NFL network that we are going to offer Saban tomorrow and it will be an offer that would pay him more than what he is making at Miami.
Whoa! I never stated BAMA should be a middle tier team. I want only the best for the Crimson Tide and I want MM to get us the BEST coach available.
It would not have mattered what we offered RR. He wasn't going to come...period. Paying every penny in the bank doesn't automatically mean
you are going to get the results you want. RR wasn't going anywhere. He had his "dream" job, and if UA had offered him every cent there was...he probably still would have said no.
I want the TIDE to turn around and WIN every game! But money doesn't solve it all.
Give him $10,000,000.00 per year ! He is worth it.Give him anything he wants.Alabama cannot survive without Nick Saban.He will save Alabama football.No one else can even come close. Do the right thing give him a blank check. Alabama fans will be very happy.
Haha, I agree with your point, but I think $5M is pushing the current limits of what the program can do. Remember, while the uni only pays a fraction of the coaches salary, they do guarantee the rest (via endorsements, donations, etc).
I think the offer will be in the $3.5M range, but believe the uni could go as high as $5M if that's what it takes.
Historically Alabama has 'low-balled' each coach they have made an offer. In doing so, they have insulted them or made the impression that 'we're Alabama, you should be honered we even ask you to coach here'. And we have lost out on some pretty good coaches because of this. We embarrassed ouselves with the offeres to Jim Levett and Mike Riley even Fran's first offer was under the minimum standards for the day.
No disrespect to Coach Gottfried but, Alabama is a football school, football pays the bills and to pay your football coach less than your basketball coach is embarrassing and wrong. The football coach is under far more pressure every single day of the year. He has much higher expectations put upon him. He has a greater responsibility to more players and coaches under him. He is far more higher in profile. Coach Shula should have made more than Coach Gottfried from day one.
To get to your point concerning RR. You are 100% correct, he was never coming to Tuscaloosa no matter what the offer was. I'm begining to believe that was the 'smoke screen' everyone talks about. Every penny in the back does not guarantee success. But you don't make an offer to a coach such as Saban for less money than the man is making at his present gig. The days of loyalty are long gone, it's all about money. When Coach Stallings was hired he accepted the job, they had the press conference with all of the pomp and circumstance and he did NOT have a contract, only a handshake. When was ask about his terms he said something like 'we haven't talked about money yet and that's not what's important, winning is what's important right now.'
In the end I believe it'll be Nick Saban makeing $5 mill a year + I bet he gets a signing bonus which will become the new standard. IMHO
Someone show me where is career record makes him so valuable. Ok so he is a tough guy and so on. I just dont get it. I woujld rather have a guy likePetrino, who actually has a standout coaching record. Maybe we will get lucky the next time the plane is in Miami and they are there for Petrino instead of Saban.
THE BAMA IRISHMAN
Hall of Fame
http://www.secsports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=20&url_article_id=7426&change_well_id=2
Other yearly money distributions, since 1980, are as follows: 1980 ($4.1 million); 1981 ($5.57 million); 1982 ($7.24 million); 1983 ($9.53 million); 1984 ($18.4 million); 1985 ($9.34 million); 1986 ($13.1 million); 1987 ($13.56 million); 1988 ($14.34 million); 1989 ($13.85 million); 1990 ($16.3 million); 1991 ($20.6 million); 1992 ($27.7 million); 1993 ($34.34 million); 1994 ($34.36 million); 1995 ($40.3 million); 1996 ($45.5 million); 1997 ($58.9 million); 1998 ($61.2 million); 1999 ($68.5 million); 2000 ($73.2 million); 2001 ($78.1 million); 2002 ($95.7 million); 2003 ($101.9 million); 2004 ($108.8 million); 2005 ($110.7 million) and 2006 ($116.1 million).-SEC-
Coach Bryant was making approximately 1.5 million plus his TV money in 1981. Now if you look at five million now that is a drop in the bucket.
Is Coach Saban worth 5 million a year. Is anyone worth 5 million a year. The answer is this. Yes, if that individual is winning and having a sales impact from the winning, OF course he is. Business is driven by winners. You can not be successful unless your are winning. That is anywhere. So the question being ask, is Saban worth 5 million a year? If he is winning, then the answer is yes. 5 million is not that much money when the school is making 10 times that much. I believe Alabama was ranked fifth in 2005 at 49 million. The boosters are also happy to lend a hand.
The real question is this: Can Alabama not afford to hire such a coach?
In business everyone knows you have to spend to make. But you must spend wisely. :BigA:
Other yearly money distributions, since 1980, are as follows: 1980 ($4.1 million); 1981 ($5.57 million); 1982 ($7.24 million); 1983 ($9.53 million); 1984 ($18.4 million); 1985 ($9.34 million); 1986 ($13.1 million); 1987 ($13.56 million); 1988 ($14.34 million); 1989 ($13.85 million); 1990 ($16.3 million); 1991 ($20.6 million); 1992 ($27.7 million); 1993 ($34.34 million); 1994 ($34.36 million); 1995 ($40.3 million); 1996 ($45.5 million); 1997 ($58.9 million); 1998 ($61.2 million); 1999 ($68.5 million); 2000 ($73.2 million); 2001 ($78.1 million); 2002 ($95.7 million); 2003 ($101.9 million); 2004 ($108.8 million); 2005 ($110.7 million) and 2006 ($116.1 million).-SEC-
Coach Bryant was making approximately 1.5 million plus his TV money in 1981. Now if you look at five million now that is a drop in the bucket.
Is Coach Saban worth 5 million a year. Is anyone worth 5 million a year. The answer is this. Yes, if that individual is winning and having a sales impact from the winning, OF course he is. Business is driven by winners. You can not be successful unless your are winning. That is anywhere. So the question being ask, is Saban worth 5 million a year? If he is winning, then the answer is yes. 5 million is not that much money when the school is making 10 times that much. I believe Alabama was ranked fifth in 2005 at 49 million. The boosters are also happy to lend a hand.
The real question is this: Can Alabama not afford to hire such a coach?
In business everyone knows you have to spend to make. But you must spend wisely. :BigA:
I'd point out that, when adjusted for inflation, there's not that much difference in what CPB was making and what CNS will be making. Of course, that was at the end of a long and illustrious career...
Of course, that assumes nothing else but monetary inflation has impacted the college football environment, which is arguably not the case as has been pointed out many times. Parity, parity and more parity may have fundamentally changed (adjusted) the salary landscape for coaches over the past 25 years. Just a thought...
THE BAMA IRISHMAN
Hall of Fame
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=177163&SPID=2164&SPSID=31675
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/columns/061201.shtml
I am not sure Saban comes to Alabama!
Nick Saban
Why he's a hot candidate: Saban is 14-13 in two seasons with the Dolphins, but he won SEC championships at LSU in 2001 and '03 and a national title in 2003.
Why he would take the job: Some reports are that Saban is unhappy. If these reports are true, Saban could build a juggernaut in Tuscaloosa, just as he did at LSU.
He would be able to outrecruit in-state rival Auburn and make sure Alabama gets guys before they look out of state  like former Saban recruit JaMarcus Russell at LSU.
Why he wouldn't take the job: Saban makes close to $5 million a year at Miami. He is also of the Bill Belichick school of coaching, meaning he won't cut and run from a pro job.
Going back to the college game brands Saban as a quitter and would make him an NFL outcast.
Cooper's take: Unless Saban is that unhappy, this makes no rational sense. People in Miami say that his unhappiness stems from losing.
He has complete control of the Dolphins, and owner Wayne Huizenga lets Saban go about his business. Also, living in South Florida isn't bad.
If not Nick Saban then:
Paul Johnson
Why he's a hot candidate: Navy won one game in two years before Johnson arrived in 2002. He had won 62 games in five years at Georgia Southern.
Beginning in 2003, he has won at least eight games every year at Navy, including eight this year.
Why he would take the job: Talk about your major upgrade in programs. Navy was once one of the great programs in the country  alums include Roger Staubach  but today it can't pull the same kinds of recruits.
Alabama will enable Johnson to get the best possible players for his option system and use his innovative offense to confound SEC coaches.
Why he wouldn't take the job: There's no earthly reason why he wouldn't take the job, except that the Tide may not have great interest in him.
While the Midshipmen might have beaten Vanderbilt twice in Johnson's tenure, some think a straight option offense won't fly in the SEC, no matter how innovative it is.
Cooper's take: Johnson is a very good coach and would be an excellent hire. He will do incredibly well no matter where he goes, but he lacks the big name value that Alabama needs to appease its fan base.
67 percent of Tide Fans are not the only ones who think this way. :BigA:
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