January 17, 2019 · 6:28 AM

The greatest trick Saban ever played

Reading that, it’s hard not to believe that Saban’s on a course to prove he is truly the only person in college football who isn’t dispensable.  I mean, if you can win with Booch after two years of complete staff turnover…

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24 responses to “The greatest trick Saban ever played”

  1. Spike
    January 17, 2019 at 6:51 AM

    Butch..”Alabama offensive analyst…” LMAO…..

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  2. 81Dog
    January 17, 2019 at 6:51 AM

    Nick is actually so good at crushing his opposition, he’s getting bored and trying to find ways to amuse himself. Saddling himself with Bootch may have overdone it, though. Next year, he’s going to make Caligula’s horse his OC.

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  3. Opelikadawg
    January 17, 2019 at 7:42 AM

    Well, somebody has to be there to pick up Nick’s dry cleaning.

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  4. Hogbody Spradlin
    January 17, 2019 at 8:05 AM

    “The Plug and Play Process”?

    Second/third thoughts about the national championship game: It’s somehow reassuring to see that Bama can mail in a big game every now and then, just like us.

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  5. Mayor
    January 17, 2019 at 8:32 AM

    I’ve noticed Bootch on the sidelines during games talking to players. If he’s an “analyst” isn’t this a violation of the cap on the number of coaches a team can have? I wasn’t party to the conversations and maybe he was just talking to those guys about the weather—mid-game—but if the NCAA isn’t going to enforce the cap on the number of assistants I favor getting an “analyst” for every player on the team.

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    • Macallanlover
      January 17, 2019 at 10:10 AM

      Agree, this sure seems to cross the line of a non-coaching position to me. If they control who can assist in the booth during games, I don’t understand how this doesn’t violate the on-field coaching staff limitation.

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  6. Derek
    January 17, 2019 at 8:59 AM

    Is anyone even considering the possibility that dude is done?

    With everyone running to the exits and no one being hired, it’s awfully suspicious.

    Green Bay?

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  7. JCDawg83
    January 17, 2019 at 9:23 AM

    There’s a lot of smoke here, there has to be a fire somewhere. Saban has been losing coordinators for years, usually without missing a beat the next season. This is the first time I recall position coaches leaving en mass. It seems to me that either Saban has become impossible to work for or word is out that he is leaving.

    If he is leaving, I won’t be sad to see him go.

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    • Brandon M
      January 17, 2019 at 9:49 AM

      Maybe Offensive Coordinators… but what they built their success on was a stifling Defense which was led by Kirby from 2008 – 2015. I’m not sure what their offensive coordinator situation was during those years, but the D’s were so good, no one cared nor did it matter.

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      • JCDawg83
        January 17, 2019 at 10:08 AM

        This is wholesale staff departure, coordinators, position coaches, everyone is leaving. Saban has been great at working through staff changes but this is a whole new level. The psycho S&C coach is about the only one outside of Butch that is staying.

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  8. Normaltown Mike
    January 17, 2019 at 9:32 AM

    It would be great if Saban, with all these openings, interviewed Butch and then demoted him to Grad Assistant or something.

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  9. DawgPhan
    January 17, 2019 at 10:02 AM

    Saban manages these changes in organization as well as anyone ever has in college football.

    I wouldnt shovel any dirt on them yet.

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  10. Huntindawg
    January 17, 2019 at 10:33 AM

    It’s easy to make fun of Butch, but you have to believe the guy has some actual coaching skills. He was actually successful at Central Michigan and Cincinnati. The fact that he was unable to manage a P5 program means he doesn’t have that managerial skill set. It probably doesn’t mean he has no coaching ability.

    Maybe I’m strange, but I kinda pull for these coaches that get fired after managing a disaster – and look bad doing it – to make a comeback and succeed.

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    • Got Cowdog
      January 17, 2019 at 11:38 AM

      Booch falling on the ground crying after the 2016 Hail Mary sealed his fate with me. I hope Saban promotes him to OC and Bama’s O goes completely in the tank along with recruiting. It won’t be Clemson or Georgia that does Saban in, it will be the deal Booch made with the devil on October 1st, 2016.

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    • Anonymous
      January 17, 2019 at 12:01 PM

      You are forgetting that facts and reality are completely irrelevant to most people. A dumb memetic narrative is far more important. Butch Jones can’t possibly be a good coach because we called him Booch, and he had that silly trash can, LOL. It doesn’t matter that had a long successful career before 2017, he says mockable things like “Champions of Life” or “Five Star Hearts”. I’m not trying to take this to playpen level discourse, but this is the same reason as why we now live in the era of “Fake News”. The dumb memetic narrative is more emotionally satisfying so people choose to believe it.

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      • Got Cowdog
        January 17, 2019 at 12:36 PM

        Apologies, Mrs. Jones. I surely did not intend to offend. What was I thinking, poking fun at an esteemed volunteer coach? Especially on a UGA blog. So sorry….

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        • Anonymous
          January 17, 2019 at 12:47 PM

          Making fun of Booth, especially for all the mockable BS he said, is great. The issue is that people really do start to believe the memes. The guy got where he did by being a good coach; he just folded under the pressure of an SEC gig. I happens to a lot of good coaches.

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          • Got Cowdog
            January 17, 2019 at 1:18 PM

            Fortunately I am able to separate “Booch” who beat my darling Bulldogs on the above mentioned Hail Mary (and for that shall forever remain “Booch, keeper of the trash can who sold his soul to the devil to beat UGA in 2016”) and Butch Jones the person, who I’m sure is a nice enough guy and a pretty shrewd negotiator I might add. But for the purposes of this blog comment he’s an opposing coach of an arch rival and therefore is subject to my semi-anonymous ridicule. If there is anyone reading this that can must believe all that is written to be the truth and nothing but the truth,let me say this: BOOCH PROBABLY MAY NOT HAVE SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL TO WIN THAT GAME.
            Sure he’s a good coach. Umpty million dollar coaching jobs at historically strong programs don’t grow on trees. And I disagree, I don’t think he folded. I think he was behind the eight ball from the start competing with Alabama’s Monster, an up and coming Georgia, and the rest of the heavy hitters in the SEC. He was out recruited, couldn’t compete, and a fanbase notorious for eating it’s own young canned his ass.

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  11. The Dawg abides
    January 17, 2019 at 11:40 AM

    I don’t think Saban was at all pleased with his defensive staff, but I think the offensive mass exodus has caught him off guard. I have to think he would’ve liked to keep Enos and Key. And Gattis himself stated Nick chewed his ass for taking a lateral move to Maryland, just before he got the Michigan OC job the same day.
    On defense, it looks like Lupoi was a victim of the Peter Principle. He’s caught the brunt of the fans’ ire since the championship game, and they say he’s looked lost all year. He’s their top recruiter, and Kirby was looking for an OLB coach last year, so Nick felt he had to promote him to co-DC. This seems to be a mutual parting since neither would want a demotion. Not sure what’s going to happen to the other DC, Golding, and Karl Scott seems to be a Saban lifer, but there is word also that the DL coach Kuligowski may be on the move after one year. If that’s true I have to guess it’s more him not wanting to work for Saban, since he’s considered one of the best in the business.

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  12. 209
    January 17, 2019 at 4:48 PM

    Saban is losing coaching talent, but I think he can make up for that. Losing recruiting talent is a hard pill to swallow. He is losing all of his top recruiters.
    Without 5 star players winning is a bitch.

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