Saban meets with Dolphins officials, job offered


cat daddy said:
Butch Davis will be getting a call from LSU AD Skip Bertman, if he has not been called already. Davis and Saban have the same agent.
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D'OH!!!!!! this is not good. don't want to see butch davis at LSU going against Alabama year in and out. Alabama wanted butch davis who has some kind of Alabama ties.

sincerely, moral supporter of TSU/Bama and the Crimson Tide.
 
cat daddy said:
Butch Davis will be getting a call from LSU AD Skip Bertman, if he has not been called already. Davis and Saban have the same agent.
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Davis has already said he is not coaching next year....
 



Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Davis, Erickson may be on wish list

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Nick Saban took the sleeping giant at LSU and shook it awake, installing an aggressive defense and building the figurative fence around the border of the state. Saban kept at home the kind of talent that had won national acclaim, if not national championships, at other schools. Warrick Dunn and Travis Minor at Florida State; Marshall Faulk at San Diego State, Kordell Stewart at Colorado -- the list went on for years, and then it stopped.

Saban has gone 48-15 in five seasons in Baton Rouge. After failing to win the Big Ten in five seasons at Michigan State, Saban wanted a job coaching at the No. 1 school in a state. It took him two seasons to win a Southeastern Conference title and four to win the Tigers' first national title since 1958.

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LSU football fans waited 45 years for a coach to lead the Tigers to another national championship. They waited the past 11 days for Nick Saban, the coach who delivered that championship, to decide whether to leave for the NFL. On the first day of Christmas, he made it clear there will be no 12th day of the Saban vigil. At a news conference Saturday night in Orlando, Fla., where Saban will coach LSU in the Capital One Bowl against Iowa on New Year's Day, Saban said he agreed in principle to become head coach of the Miami Dolphins. LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman said Saban told him Friday he would take the job, but Saban waited until Saturday to announce his decision so he could tell each of the 125 players and his staff in person.
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While Saban walks away, Bertman plans his next move


By RANDY ROSETTA
[email protected]
Advocate sportswriter


Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling
BERTMAN
By the time the likely became reality Saturday on a gloomy day in Baton Rouge, Skip Bertman already had a process in place, and his sense of humor was still intact.
In fact, the LSU athletic director began sketching out his plan of action 11 days earlier.

LSU football coach Nick Saban ended speculation about his future with a Christmas Night news conference from Orlando and announced that he has agreed in principle to become the Miami Dolphins next head coach.

And while Bertman went the distance to keep Saban in Baton Rouge, he also had an eye on where to start hunting for the next LSU coach.

Bertman said the university has hired a search firm to look for Saban's successor. That firm officially went to work once Saban informed Bertman of his final decision.
 
5 and done. Joe Pa and Bowden have got to be the absolute last of the bread of coaches (at least at D-IA) that stay at a school for a career.
 
Rabalais: Saban was great, but song got old


By SCOTT RABALAIS
[email protected]
Advocate sportswriter

For the first time in the Nick Saban era, this was a game LSU couldn't win.
Oh, Saban talked up some good diversions since the news broke that he and the Miami Dolphins were talking over a week ago. He trotted out former NFL boss Jerry Glanville's line about NFL standing for "Not For Long" when it came to college coaches finding success there. He waxed on about how much he and his family love it at LSU and here in Baton Rouge, probably more than they could have ever expected to when they came here from Michigan State.

But when the Dolphins flashed their offer at LSU's football coach, the front office control and owner Wayne Huizenga's money and the opportunity to revive one of the NFL's most storied franchises and the money (really huge bunches of cash), Saban was a goner. Saturday's news conference in Orlando after the Tigers arrived there for next Saturday's Capital One Bowl, at which time Saban surprised no one by saying he would take the Dolphins job, was perhaps the most anticlimactic of his LSU tenure.
 
Analysis: possible LSU coaching candidates


By Scott Rabalais, Carl Dubois, Randy Rosetta
Butch Davis

CURRENT JOB: Unemployed.

AGE: 53.

ALMA MATER: Arkansas (1974).

EXPERIENCE: Cleveland Browns head coach from 2001-04. He resigned Nov. 30. Was the head coach at the University of Miami from 1995-2000. Spent 16 years as an assistant with Jimmy Johnson -- five at Oklahoma State, five at Miami and six with Dallas in the National Football League. Rose to defensive coordinator under Johnson before taking over at Miami when Dennis Erickson left.

RECORD: 75-56 (24-36 at Cleveland, 51-20 at Miami).
 
This just in. Tommy Tubberville's agent cleared to talk to LSU if there is interest. This after Tubberville just got a 7 year multi-million dollar contract offer from Auburn,,, that he has not signed by the way. "Interesting" as Jafus would say. Boy this is going to be good. You got to be kidding me. Tommy Tubberville to LSU? No FREAKING way.

"Yes freaking way.", sincerely Ole Miss fan.
 
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It's been a tough year! :shame:
~Astrya
 



cat daddy said:
Not in our lifetime.

Some may consider some one like Willingham, but not Doug.
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Terry Robieskie (sp), an LSU grad and current interim for Cleveland Browns, might have had a shot (a very very long one) had he been successful as a NFL head coach. They might give him an interview if he expresses interest, but I doubt that he would get it.

I tend to agree with Cat Daddy. I don't think LSU supporters as a whole are ready, just yet, for a black head coach. And he would have to have some serious serious pedigree.

Regards.
 
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Search begins for new coach
The Atlanta Journal Constitution on Sunday reported that a source close to Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville said Tuberville would listen if LSU wants to discuss the vacancy created Saturday when Nick Saban agreed to coach the Miami Dolphins. Tuberville could not be reached for comment. Neither could his agent, Jimmy Sexton, also Saban's agent
 
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