No news is good news...or something

by Nico2.0 on Dec 12, 2006 11:49 AM CST in Football

All is quiet on the western Alabama front...or so the newspapers say.

Saban once again denies interest despite recent reports that he may want the job:

"I in no way wanted to indicate to him or anybody else that there was any possibility of that. I have no intentions of going anywhere..."

I know coaches blow smoke all the time, but I really think Saban means what he is saying. According to the story though:

Despite another denial of interest Monday, Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban remains at the top of the Crimson Tide's wish list for a new head football coach, one source close to the search said Monday.

Raise your hand if you're sick of unnamed sources as far as this story is concerned.

It's unanimous

Albert Einstein would like to chime in on the continuing pursuit of Saban.

Insanity!

For those of you that have your hopes up about Gene Stallings comments on Friday's Paul Finebaum show, it's not happening.

Stallings said Sunday night that he was misunderstood if listeners to an interview he did with a statewide radio show Friday thought he wanted to return. Stallings said that he felt he was "qualified" to coach the Tide again, but had no interest in doing so.

"I said I was qualified to coach the team. As far as saying I was interested, that was not the case," he said.

Fuhgetaboudit!

I don't have a subscription to Scout.com so I don't know what the whole story says, but from the teaser blurb, it looks like some Bama verbal commits are getting cold feet.

These coaching searches are so exhausting. I can't wait until it's settled and we can talk about who it is rather than who it might be.

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Seems like bad news to me...

Not the coaching hunt per se, but the end of the news article (first link). It mentioned Norm Chow as a candidate but said he "is not interested." That's depressing. He is by far my favorite to get the head coaching job. In a perfect world Mal wouldn't accept that and pursue him. But wait, in a perfect world this wouldn't be our ump-teenth time looking for a coach in such a short time. And we'd have won 14 consecutive National Championships. Hey, I said a PERFECT world. Oh, and hopefully no more (potential) recruits will change their mind about coming to Bama.

Oh, and Norm Chow's initials are NC. NC...as in National Championship. haha! PERFECT!

by SpockJenkins on Dec 12, 2006 3:01 PM CST reply actions

No one is interested... not even a little bit

This sucks so much balls

Was it for this my life I sought?

by Chalkdust Bama on Dec 13, 2006 9:57 AM CST up reply actions

FindACoach.Com

I don't think it is necessarily the best chance at getting a good coach, but I would bet that Neinas and Mal focus primarily on current and former NFL head coaches, because we have too much pride.

We need someone who wants to win and can win, regardless of whether they've been a head coach or not. There are head coaches worse than Shula and assistant coaches better than Rodriguez in the NFL. I just hope this doesn't turn into the catastrophe it's inching towards on a daily basis.

Well, that's like, your opinion, man.

by TheDude @ Roll 'Bama Roll on Dec 12, 2006 3:54 PM CST reply actions