ChrisKo said:
Saban said this from the start and fully believes it.
MAKE HASTE, SLOWLY!
He's known since day 1 that the team needed major changes. He didn't think it was fair to Zach and JT to totally blow it all up to get the changes made quickly, so he's trying to rebuild and stay competitve. Unfortunately, we haven't been as competitve as expected this year. I do not forsee him leaving anytime soon and I wished people would just chill out.
I agree 100%, finally someone is listening to what Saban has said and not some unnamed source.
Anyone notice that there have been a lot of stories recently (PFW, PFT, poss others) citing unnamed NFL sources? PFW's unnamed NFL talent evaluator, PFT's 'market chatter'. The NFL is a place run by guys with big egos, many of whom act like silly morons because of it: Mike Martz, Polian, Billick, JJ...the list is endless. Last season's buzz around Saban probably bruised more than a few egos and caused a lot of jealousy. Now that he is down it's payback time.
None of those guys, NOT ONE, is willing to go on record. What does that tell you? That a lot of gutless wonders are taking free pot-shots at our guy and the press are all-too-willing to lap it up even given the fact that it is 100% baseless, grounded in no facts, nothing substantial at all. As rumors go, these are about as low quality as you can get. It almost falls in the category of schoolgirl gossip.
I have seen nothing that would make me think Saban won't be back. Not anything in the press, not anything in his career history, and not in his own words -the book he wrote. It goes totally against what his stated philosophy is.