Read the article I posted. or don't and keep being the ostrich that thinks Saban is a stand up guy. Anyway not the place for the discussion.
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2019 4* ATH Ty Robinson predictions rolling in
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Then why did you post the article?
I think he was recognizing we had turned the Ty Robinson thread into the Nick Saban thread, which was partly my fault.
To make a point but the discussion has gone on too long.
So what do you think our chances with Ty are?
He has a legendary work ethic. You can tell a lot about a coach by what other coaches say about him, and the closest that other coaches come to criticizing Saban is to talk about him being too obsessive, too controlling, too driven, but is there anybody who thinks that you can be a successful D-1 coach without living somewhere in the vicinity of crossing those lines? I thought it was interesting that Saban was upset about the NCAA adding a rule that head coaches could only visit a player once in home, but his observation was that only he and Urban Meyer were out visiting players like assistant coaches, so other coaches complained--not because they couldn't do the same thing--but because they weren't willing to go out and do the work, so they didn't want Saban and Meyer doing it either. I think that there was a heck of a lot of truth in that.
As for what @wheat and @alabamahusker said about hating Alabama before Saban, I absolutely get that, but if anyone hates Saban, himself, well, you may want to stop and think about how much he and Osborne admire each other. I don't know if it's still true, but in one Saban biography he said that he likes to talk with Osborne from time to time because he values his input on organizational questions, etc. Charlie McBride and company have a lot of praise for him, too, because he does things the right way, and he won't ever be outworked.
For those who still harbor hard feelings, fwiw, I don't think that he's happy. I don't think that he can ever be content. I think that he's got a great wife and marriage, but he lives in the world of coaching to fill a void, and I think that it haunts him. His father was pretty much an @$$hole, and he's still living to try to please a dead man who could never be pleased. Saban is a reminder to me--a mediocre coach with a wonderful family in a no-name town--that all of the success that you can imagine in a coaching career will not be enough to fill a spiritual vacuum. I'd love to be friends with the guy.
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Now that his machine of a football program is running, not as much. When he first got to Bama? His first few recruiting classes totaled something like 105 guys in 3 years. The sad thing is he's nowhere near the worst in that conference
