How do Dolphin/Tide fans feel about all this?

[SkapePhin]

I cannot imagine how I would feel if I were both a fan of the Dolphins and Tide.. How could I be happy about my college team getting a coach who just betrayed my Pro team like this..

Is anyone here both a Miami and Bama fan? What are your feelings right now?

 

[fiedlerfan]

I am a fan of both and I think it was the right move. I don't think Saban was the coach that was capable of getting the Dolphins back to a Super Bowl caliber team. He prefers the college game and atmosphere and that is where he belongs. I knew pretty early that he made a mistake when he left LSU. The NFL just isn't for him.
On the other hand he is an outstanding coach and he will be to Alabama what Stoops was to Oklahoma and what Carroll was to USC. Alabama has the resouces, they just need the right coach. I think they got him

 

[TXFinFan]

As a Dolphin/Auburn Tiger fan, I can't wait to win our 6th game in a row against Bama and their new cowardly lion coach!!

 

[vt_dolfan]

I am a fan of both and I think it was the right move. I don't think Saban was the coach that was capable of getting the Dolphins back to a Super Bowl caliber team. He prefers the college game and atmosphere and that is where he belongs. I knew pretty early that he made a mistake when he left LSU. The NFL just isn't for him.
On the other hand he is an outstanding coach and he will be to Alabama what Stoops was to Oklahoma and what Carroll was to USC. Alabama has the resouces, they just need the right coach. I think they got him

Says the Fiedler fan....so you think the way he went about doing this was correct? Please....check your Aqua and Orange at the door....

Nick Saban grew up in the next town from where I lived in West Virginia. Nobody was a bigger supporter of him than me. I dont begrudge him for going back..nobody does. It was the sackless way that he did it. He couldnt even take the time to tell his staff and players to their face. Hes known full well he wanted back to the college ranks...so why not just say no comment...instead of bold face lying?

 

[redpitsea]

I want to know how LSU fans feel. LoL You know there pissed!

 

[Coral Reefer]

I don't know how any Bama/Phin fans feel but I did see Gene Stallings ripping Bama a new one on ESPN today.

Funny to see one of their own calling out those in charge at Bama. He basically insinuated that there are a few Boosters that pull everyones strings and the admin. don't have the stones to cross them on anything. Said there were some real problems over there.

 

[Coral Reefer]

He couldnt even take the time to tell his staff and players to their face. Hes known full well he wanted back to the college ranks...so why not just say no comment...instead of bold face lying?

Yep by conference call.
Yellow belly.

 

[TheMageGandalf]

I want to know how LSU fans feel. LoL You know there pissed!

HELL YEAH.

I mean, he left LSU go to coach the MIAMI DOLPHINS in the NFL.

OK.

He's a good coach and he wants to move up to the Pros.

Nothing wrong with that. Had he been fired or forced to resign because he totally sucked then OK, fine.

BUT NO. He bolts back to college without having really done anything good or bad in the Pros not even half way through his 5 year deal....thats crap.

:fire:

 

[phinphan896]

lsu fans hate him. he did the same sh*t to them

 

[jdang307]

Says the Fiedler fan....so you think the way he went about doing this was correct? Please....check your Aqua and Orange at the door....

A fan telling a felow fan to check their aqua and orange at the door? Two insults in one sentence. Amazing. Bitter much?

He never once said in his post he thought Saban went about this the right way. He said it was the right move.

 

[BlueFin]

I am a fan of both and I think it was the right move. I don't think Saban was the coach that was capable of getting the Dolphins back to a Super Bowl caliber team. He prefers the college game and atmosphere and that is where he belongs. I knew pretty early that he made a mistake when he left LSU. The NFL just isn't for him.
On the other hand he is an outstanding coach and he will be to Alabama what Stoops was to Oklahoma and what Carroll was to USC. Alabama has the resouces, they just need the right coach. I think they got him

Hate to break this to you, but he failed in the big leagues, college is the pee wee league.

If he loses to Auburn a couple years in a row and struggles with the rest of the SEC, as he surely will with Urban Meyer and Florida, he'll be on his way out there too.

He never stays anywhere long, he is a quitter and a fraud.

 

[Jimmy James]

I don't know how any Bama/Phin fans feel but I did see Gene Stallings ripping Bama a new one on ESPN today.

Funny to see one of their own calling out those in charge at Bama. He basically insinuated that there are a few Boosters that pull everyones strings and the admin. don't have the stones to cross them on anything. Said there were some real problems over there.

As one of these poor fans the thread is about, I want to say that Stallings is the last coach who got it if you ask me. He's absolutely right about what is wrong with Alabama, and Saban will find no peace as a result of it.

How do I feel? I feel that Saban is just in it for the money. He might have talent enough to make things interesting in Tuscaloosa, but it will eventually crash and burn. As a Dolphins fan, I'm just kind of glad he's gone and hope Wayne has better judgment this time.

 

[BlueFin]

Oh, and to all Tide fans, it should be clear to all as it is to the fans of LSU and the Miami Dolphins that the word "commitment" is just a word Nick Saban throws around loosely and has no real meaning to the fraud.

If he'll do it once as classlessly as he did before, he'll do it to you as well.

Enjoy your honeymoon!

 

[FinFanBamaFan]

I don't know how any Bama/Phin fans feel but I did see Gene Stallings ripping Bama a new one on ESPN today.

Funny to see one of their own calling out those in charge at Bama. He basically insinuated that there are a few Boosters that pull everyones strings and the admin. don't have the stones to cross them on anything. Said there were some real problems over there.

I am a fan of both and it saddens me to see what happened but also excites me for the future of both programs. Both deserve the best and I believe we are one step closer in both regards. Im grew up with Csonka, Morris, Warfield, and several Bama players I wont mention.
I'm happy because I think we got an excellent College Coach and I'm glad to see Miami has a shot at a NFL coach. More often times than not, those two are far more different than we think.

For the quote earlier, I think I know the coach you are referring to and it wasnt Stallings, it was Bill Curry. Curry coached at Bama shortly after Perkins left for Tampa Bay and was relatively successful with the exception of dropping two HC games to nobody teams and never beating Auburn. He soon quit and took a job with Kentucky.

I will be watching the coaching search intently and hoping that perhaps the right guy is walking the sidelines for the Fins. With a History the Dolphins have I have no doubt the will be leading the Division with the right guy. There is talent on this team!!!!

 

[Ekinger]

I'm both. But I feel a bit differently. I was never rah rah with Saban. Felt pretty good about him at the end of the season last year. Thought he brought in a winning attitude. However, in all my years as an avid fan of the Dolphins and the NFL as a whole, I've never seen a coach so unbelievably ill prepared to start a season. He was terrible in every sense of the word. I was criticising him from game one.

I don't understand how a guy that likes to teach and supposedly is a d-back genius, could be the head coach of a team where the secondary was so undisciplined. All the guys he had were raw and teachable which was one of the things he said he missed about the college game.

Huizenga made a massive mistake hiring this guy. I think it was such a huge mistake, that he had something to do with Nick leaving. I know Huizenga is loyal, I know he gave Nick everything he wanted but I think Huizenga felt it's one of the worst business moves he's ever made. For everyone to save face, I think he told Nick to move on and not say a word. Nick would take the heat for the next couple of weeks and Huizenga wouldn't look like the complete fool he was in hiring the guy at such a bloated salary to begin with.

I'm glad he's at Bama, would be nice to see them approach their former success and he's a good college coach.

What I can't figure out, is why the media and the NFL weren't way harder on Saban all season. Most of the problems the Dolphins had were communication issues and communication is the most basic job the HC has. Nick couldn't even handle that. It was as if everyone thought that regressing was ok and he needed 5 years to turn the organization around. That's bologna, there should be some progression each year. The team had more talent this year than it's had in quite a while and was worse. How does a head coach get away with that sort of a performance until he ducks and runs?

Didn't anyone else question how good he could be based on his performance this year? And I'm talking about after week 2 or 3 when we couldn't compete with some of the worst teams in the league at the time.