Why does lsu hate nick saban

It was such a volatile situation that his wife needed a police escort to travel around the stadium. Alabama won the game in overtime He brought the team its first national title since the s. Not to mention, he turned a poor program into an NFL talent machine. Home NCAA. Except at the SEC tournament, no. Bama wins: A lot.

That was an itch he was eventually bound to scratch. Tiger fans owe Saban a lot, but his tenure in Tuscaloosa seems like some cruel cosmic football joke. Edit Collection Close. Edit Close. Toggle navigation. Francisville St. The Tigers and Tide tangle Saturday. Buy Now. Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. Saban was cheered by the local fans, who meanwhile often booed and jeered their own Saints and then-owner Tom Benson in a loss that dropped the franchise to on its way to There were even some efforts to bring Saban back to LSU as the NFL did not work out for him and Miles failed in his first two seasons to get the most out of the tremendous amount of talent he inherited.

Perhaps no college football coach in history left more talent, because most do not leave at the apex of their stay at a job, which is what Saban did after the season. Most leave after things have waned a bit or are fired. Not Saban. He left when the two best back-to-back LSU recruiting classes in history — No. As a result, nearly three full years after Saban left, 27 players from those two classes that he signed and coached were still on the team. And virtually all of those were still in playing roles in the season when LSU won the national championship under Miles, a Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductee himself last summer.

Not only did Saban sign the best, he developed them to their best. Of the players signed by Saban from February, , through February, , 32 were drafted into the NFL from the through the drafts, including nine in the first round and at least one first rounder in each of those six drafts. Of the players signed by Miles from February, , through February, , 64 have been drafted, but just 10 in the first round even though Miles was at LSU for seven more years than Saban.

One of the reasons Saban took so long to make up his mind about taking the Miami Dolphins job was the talent he was leaving at LSU that someone else would get to coach.

This was one of the main reasons he turned down the Chicago Bears after the national championship season. But a lot of those same guys won it in Saban said then-athletic director Skip Bertman, who was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in , tried to convince him to stay, and he has never forgotten what he said.

And Skip said, 'You've just got to decide what you want your legacy to be. You want it to be as a college coach? Or do you want to try to make a name for yourself as a NFL coach?

Don't ask me why.