You have to project that the players in every Power program will think and act the same way.
Even the players at ND?
Link: How Alabama moved from Nick Saban to Kalen DeBoer in 49 hours
That may well be 5 years away. And if I've been doing something a certain way for 30 years, and all of sudden the environment changes in a way that makes it difficult to do the job successfully with my methods, I don't know that I would want to stick around while things hover indefinitely.
I’m old but I would prefer at some point there was a framework that schools were schools. Let there be a minor league for the NFL if these guys want more than their scholarships and all the perks they get.
(I know there is no chance things go this way at this point)
he would have felt that they didn’t care enough.
Saban was just ready to retire.
But this story does show the advantages to an amicable break between a coach and a school, and where the coach is communicating with the school with updates and forewarning.
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for a new contract after the WI win at Soldier Field?
Swarbrick was asleep at the wheel on this. As you note, there were many other signs.
I still think that Kelly should have been fired in 2016.
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Malignant narcissist.
Be it BC, ND, UT,USC,LSu, no difference to Kelly
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just talk except for Lou.
the romanticism was probably overplayed. These days, maybe gone for good. Sad...
nobody does it like Notre Dame,” said Kelly the day he was hired Dec. 11, 2009.
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Nick Saban reveals contributing factors to Alabama retirement. Saban retired from Alabama in January. Ryan Gaydos By Ryan Gaydos Fox News
Link: http://Fox News https://www.foxnews.com › sports › nick-saban-reveals...
Right, Saban was ready to retire, but if he were 62 instead of 72,
he might have still retired under the new all-about-the-money regime.
BTW, greedy players are merely playing follow the leaders which are
the greedy athletic departments.
The "Student-Athlete" is dead.
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and want a piece of the massive pool of money that guys like Saban bathe in.