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When I look at the two years that Nick Saban spent here, I see some good moves, some bad and some downright ugly. Here's my view.

Best Move -- Drafting Ronnie Brown. I know Brown hasn't emerged yet, but that's, to a large extent, due to lack of talent on the offensive line. Brown will have a breakout year under Cam Cameron. He will show that he is a complete back. Saban's first draft was solid.

Best Move (Runner Up) -- Investing money into a quality coaching staff. When Scott Linehan was here, Miami's coaching staff had to rank among the best in football.

Worst Move -- Not playing Fred Evans, Anthony Alabi and Cleo Lemon more once the season was lost a year ago. All those players should have had at the least four games under their belts and time to develop. A year later we still don't know what we have in those players.

Ugliest Move -- The mess that was his departure. I don't blame Saban for looking for another job, or a better situation for his family. But the way it unfolded turned ugly in a hurry.
 
His best move was benching Culpepper.

His 2nd best move was going to Alabama.

His worst move was getting Culpepper for a 2nd round pick.

His 2nd worst move was starting Culpepper over Harrington.

His 3rd worst move was waiting till the 5th game to bench Culpepper.
 
saban was a fraud kind of like the current democratic party !
 
Haha WV you bashing DC it doesnt surprise and look he is still here LOL. COuld have sworn there was suppose to be a head shaved some where in the works.

Best Move -- Drafting Crowder if he becomes our LB of the future or signing Dom Capers

Best Move (Runner Up) -- leaving for Alabama

Worst Move -- I like this one ... Not playing Fred Evans, Anthony Alabi and Cleo Lemon more once the season was lost a year ago.

Ugliest Move -- not resigning Gus
 
Best Move: Getting top of the line coaching staff. He went out and paid big backs to get the best and the second best to learn from them.

Worst Move: Not trusting the coaching staff or having faith in his players. I mean really I would have chocked the ref. with the flag if he wasn't watching me to see if I was going to challenge the call on the play. Hell they probably would have challenge it without asking because of me screaming at them. Saban limp wrists it about 10 years and 30 yards behind the action. *****!

Shocking move: Starting Culpepper. For me this was the beginning of the end. Total panic mode and was his demise. After that horrific knee injury everyone knew there was no way he was ready. Pepp had no confidence in that knee and in NO Way should have been out on that field. I could see it in his eyes when he played and I live in Iowa. Saban should have since he was looking Pepp in the eye everday he was on the team.

Ugliest Move: Not playing younger players and letting newer older ones play instead. Taking reps for the younger guys that you could build a team upon, instead of an aging vetrans that were other teams trash.

Huge loss was lack of playing time Bell got as the season began to tank. He played lights out and it was like HELLO meat head put him in, and he would put him in. Late in the year he finally did but took way too long to do this.
 
best move:
Trading for Culpepper.. lol..jk! I would say His first four picks in the 2005 draft!

Runner up best move:
inserting his blitz type defense! making this team 3-4/4-3 is really important to our soon to be success

Worst Move:
Hiring Mike Mularky

Worst move runner up:
Starting Culpepper game one

Ugliest Move:
Talking To Alabama during our season. I hate quitters and he knew he was quiting when he did that
 
I`ve still got a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Saban. I loved how Don Shula called him out when he said Nick came here and promised to turn things around, but yet he bailed on us. I hope he gets his *** handed to him by the rest of the SEC...
 
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When I look at the two years that Nick Saban spent here, I see some good moves, some bad and some downright ugly. Here's my view.

Best Move -- Drafting Ronnie Brown. I know Brown hasn't emerged yet, but that's, to a large extent, due to lack of talent on the offensive line. Brown will have a breakout year under Cam Cameron. He will show that he is a complete back. Saban's first draft was solid.

Best Move (Runner Up) -- Investing money into a quality coaching staff. When Scott Linehan was here, Miami's coaching staff had to rank among the best in football.

Worst Move -- Not playing Fred Evans, Anthony Alabi and Cleo Lemon more once the season was lost a year ago. All those players should have had at the least four games under their belts and time to develop. A year later we still don't know what we have in those players.

Ugliest Move -- The mess that was his departure. I don't blame Saban for looking for another job, or a better situation for his family. But the way it unfolded turned ugly in a hurry.
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I concur Sir I concur.:cooldude:
 
Best Move: Assembling a very good coaching staff.

Best Move (runner up): Leaving. His coaching style and inability to trust others turned out to be completely unsuited to the NFL. In a crazy way he was a much better GM than he was a coach.

Worst move: Coaching scared - starting proven veterans who weren't ready (Culpepper) or marking time over youngsters who could have contributed given the opportunity.

Worst move (runner up): Acquiring Mularky and insisting Mularky run the Lineham playbook. Either get someone in who knows how to run the Lineham playbook or let Mularky run his own offence. Whilst I don't have any faith in Mularky as an OC he was put in a situation where he was running a foreign offence which made his already poor ability to call the right play at the right time even worse.

Ugliest Move: Coaching the DBs in his defensive scheme at the expense of coaching the basics then letting the DBs learn the scheme. Too many of the defensive breakdowns were from poor technique and compounded because the players were thinking more about what they had to do in the scheme rather than what their opponents were doing.
 
WVdolphan said:
His best move was benching Culpepper.

His 2nd best move was going to Alabama.

His worst move was getting Culpepper for a 2nd round pick.

His 2nd worst move was starting Culpepper over Harrington.

His 3rd worst move was waiting till the 5th game to bench Culpepper.
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Wow, I thought you were still in hiding after you went derelict on your bet.
 
SF Dolphin Fan said:
When I look at the two years that Nick Saban spent here, I see some good moves, some bad and some downright ugly. Here's my view.

Best Move -- Drafting Ronnie Brown. I know Brown hasn't emerged yet, but that's, to a large extent, due to lack of talent on the offensive line. Brown will have a breakout year under Cam Cameron. He will show that he is a complete back. Saban's first draft was solid.

Best Move (Runner Up) -- Investing money into a quality coaching staff. When Scott Linehan was here, Miami's coaching staff had to rank among the best in football.

Worst Move -- Not playing Fred Evans, Anthony Alabi and Cleo Lemon more once the season was lost a year ago. All those players should have had at the least four games under their belts and time to develop. A year later we still don't know what we have in those players.

Ugliest Move -- The mess that was his departure. I don't blame Saban for looking for another job, or a better situation for his family. But the way it unfolded turned ugly in a hurry.
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what is wrong with you guys. the worst move by far was selecting dc over brees. say what you will this is what killed him. dc is a bust. brees is a probowler. please no dc apologist. best move was investing so much drafting into the d line. you will see it pay off this year.
 
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HelloMotto said:
what is wrong with you guys. the worst move by far was selecting dc over brees. say what you will this is what killed him. dc is a bust. brees is a probowler. please no dc apologist. best move was investing so much drafting into the d line. you will see it pay off this year.
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:yeahthat: Pretty obvious to me, although hiring Mularkey is a close second.
 
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