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Title: "Alabama AD Bill Battle describes one way Nick Saban's impact compares to Bear Bryant" Post by: WALL-E on December 11, 2015, 07:25:02 AM Alabama AD Bill Battle describes one way Nick Saban's impact compares to Bear Bryant
Title: Re: "Alabama AD Bill Battle describes one way Nick Saban's impact compares to Bear Bryant" Post by: SUPERCOACH on December 14, 2015, 03:26:36 AM Quote "We would talk in the old days, they would write about how many coaches that Coach Bryant put into coaching," Battle said. "They don't write much about how many he puts out. "I guess the same could be said about Nick." Title: Re: "Alabama AD Bill Battle describes one way Nick Saban's impact compares to Bear Bryant" Post by: Chechem on December 14, 2015, 06:04:53 AM Funny quote, but hardly true.
Seriously: During Coach Bryant's tenure he had many, many assistants who left Alabama to eventually become head coaches. And true, many lost to Alabama. It's not like that today. Coach Saban has a program that produces so much money that assistants are paid well enough to stay for longer periods before leaving. In the old days assistant coaches earned meager salaries; today coordinators are millionaires at Alabama. So, fewer have left than did during the 1960s-70s. But I like our program, even when we lose assistants, and even when we beat teams coached by former Alabama assistants! |