Alabama coach Nick Saban has let it be known that if he returns to the NFL, where he flopped, going 15-17 with the Dolphins from 2005-06, Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe reports citing NFL sources, if he would make a jump to the NFL again it would likely be with Michael Lombardi as his general manager. One of Saban’s many missteps in Miami — the first being that he accepted a job he really didn’t want — was hiring a general manager in Randy Mueller who did not know the Belichick personnel system. Mueller, who was a good personnel man when running his own ship with the Saints, had to learn Saban’s system on the fly, and it never really clicked. Saban could well be looking for his next/final NFL opportunity if he wins his fourth national championship next month in the BCS title game against Notre Dame. If the Browns (Saban is from northern West Virginia, played for and coached at Kent State, and was a Browns assistant under Belichick) and Lombardi are dangled, he may indeed take the plunge again. Source: The Redzone
He'd be a phool. He ain't going no where. This is just someone trying to create a story out of nothing.
Saban is almost as big of a God in ALABAMA than bear bryant was! why would you want to quit a job and lose your god status to go to the cleveland browns and be a servant? It will never happen! Saban is the best college coach in the country,but he'd be the 32nd best coach in the nfl if he went there,wtf would anybody do that or give that up?
i dont think hed be a bad NFL coach if he wanted to be one, his heart is in college though. he controls the entire show at bama and makes a crap load of money doing it. Has recruits flock to him and builds dominant teams. i didnt think pete carrol would do anything int he NFL and hes not doing bad at all, but some guys are just better at handling amateurs than professionals
Spurrier is the same way.he was an awful coach that thought his offense would dominate the NFL no matter who ran it,well, he got brought down to earth and showed how out of his element he was coaching a pro team. Saban is the looking at the same situation.
He has nowhere to go but down if he takes an NFL HC position. I don't think there's an organization that would give him full control and I think he would want that.
Well it says he'd likely be a pair deal with Lombardi, so I don't think that's as much of an issue, but it still doesn't make much sense, he's proven what he can do in college versus the NFL
If saban goes back to the NFL,he'll get his butt handed to him worse than he did last time he was the head coach in miami,maybe worse! He'll never leave alabama! they will throw so much money at him to stay it will be ph0rnographic!
