The Story on how Nick Saban left Michigan State

[Lord Vader]

Here's how LSU kept its pursuit of Saban quiet: After Tigers coach Gerry DiNardo was fired on Nov. 15, Dean asked Gil Brandt, a former Dallas Cowboys player personnel director, to help him find a new coach. Brandt phoned Saban a couple of days before Thanksgiving, around the same time that Miami coach Butch Davis said he wasn't interested in the position. Saban was interested and called his agent, Jimmy Sexton of Memphis. One of Sexton's business associates, Sean Tuohy, a former Ole Miss basketball player, has known Dean for years. He phoned Dean and suggested that Dean call Sexton. If the process had gone any deeper underground, LSU would have struck oil.

 

Once Dean discovered Saban could be had, he never wavered. The Tigers made Saban an offer on Monday, Nov. 29. That same day Saban's wife, Terry, went to Baton Rouge to check out the area. She had lunch with DeLaine Emmert, wife of LSU chancellor Mark, at TJ Ribs, which was polling customers about whom LSU should hire. The women cast the first two votes for Saban. When Terry returned home at 11 p.m., she and Nick talked for several hours about the offer and went to bed. They woke up at 5:10 a.m. Tuesday, talked the move over again and decided to leap.

Hard to imagine a time where Nick Saban only made $700,000 a year.

 

[Lord Vader]

Nick Saban is putting out feelers to leave Alabama ... Penn State, Ohio State, Texas are said to be the schools he's interested in. Allegedly there is also interest in another NFL job.
I'm not the only one hearing this. I talked to someone last night who is intimately involved in assistant coach searches who is hearing this and another site on our network says two sources at Alabama have confirmed it.

Here is the interesting denominator -- the longest Nick Saban has coached anywhere is five years. He was five years at Michigan State, five years at LSU and this is his fifth year at Alabama.

"Nick sees himself as a program builder not a program sustainer," my source told me. "After five years he gets bored and needs a new challenge."

It's just a rumor at this stage but will it grow some legs?

Of course, Saban will deny it if someone asks him the question publicly. He denied that he was leaving Michigan State, denied that he was leaving LSU and he denied that he was leaving the Miami Dolphins. We know what happened there.

But ... will he do it again? Right now it's just a rumor but it is cause for speculation.

That came off a 247 board from two years ago. Interesting how the next post speculates Urban Meyer would end up at Ohio State and Saban at Texas

 

[CashMcCoy]

Sean Tuohy is also the dad in The Blind Side story. Small world.

 

[Hoekem]

To be announced 12/18 or close to it...

 

[Bandit]

To be announced 12/18 or close to it...

If this really happens, I may spontaneously combust on Christmas Eve!