I never understood the Saban hate

i’ve always found the hatred odd as well. i mean look at gator fans, they still love them some steve spurrier, and he basically did the same to them. hell, if anything it was worse b/c he’s a florida alum.

I’ll admit that I wished he’d gone somewhere else, like a different conference, at least the East division, but I can’t blame him for jumping on one of the best jobs (and income) that happened to be available at the time. Most of our fans that I interact with feel the same way (where are the haters, anyway?) Certainly no hate here like Arkansas fans have for the current head coach of Ole Miss.

I think most of the haters are bandwagon fans or really yound LSU fans.

If he had left the LSU in a world of hurt. I mean he definitly left Miles some players to work with. That always helps when taking over a team.

Look, I’m a LSU homer just like a lot of people, but I pride myself in not taking things too seriously. LSU is in a place right now that I was dreaming of when I attended school there. I sat through some serious a-whippins in Tiger Stadium. I am just happy to be able to say that 9-3 could be an average season for us. Saban did leave LSU in a great position to make a run for another National Championship, as well. Let’s just be happy for what he did for the school and our program.

I do not begrudge a guy who wants a little more change in his pocket. The Dolphins are the ones that have a right to be pissed!

BTW, dorsey, let me know where you’ll be tailgatin’ and I’ll buy you a beer.

Archer/Hallman/DiNardo ring any bells? To go from THAT to THIS was a transformational job of the highest magnitude…not to mention, it DOES follow a logical progression:

1. MAC HC
2. Bottom feeder Big 10 school
3. Sleeping Giant SEC school
4. NFL: Why not
5. Hates NFL: Best glamour job open (and one of top 3-5 relevance historically). Alabama.

Damned good coach working his way through the hierarchy.

with everything you said.

to know that there are some rational LSU fans out there. One might even hope that you are the silent (or quiet) majority. Anyway, the best way to sum up the Saban hate is to quote Yoda:

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering”.

You’re all the way to the suffering part now :) I kid, but seriously, I’m very much looking forward to the LSU game next year. This years game was by far the most compelling one Alabama has played in… exciting, nerve-wrecking, and exhausting. I foresee some tough Bama/LSU games in the future with so much talent on both sides.

Roll Tide

-Z