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Title: Mississippi's Nutt, Alabama's Saban familiar foes Post by: pmull on October 14, 2011, 10:26:24 AM Quote The veteran Southeastern Conference coaches face each other for the 10th time when No. 2 Alabama travels to face Mississippi on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. "I feel he's one of the best coaches in the league in terms of how his teams play, the difficulties in preparing to play his teams and utilizing the personnel they have," Saban said. "All the things in consideration from my standpoint, I have the utmost respect for Houston and the job he has done for a lot of years." But the coaching rivalry has lost some luster in recent years because it's become so one-sided. Saban has a 7-2 record against Nutt in a series that dates back to 2000 when Saban was at LSU and Nutt was at Arkansas. Nutt won two out of the first three in the series, but Saban has won six straight dating back to 2003. Saban has a lot of respect for Nutt. When he left LSU for Miami it is my understanding he recommended Nutt for the LSU job. http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/16046999/article-Mississippi-s-Nutt--Alabama-s-Saban-familiar-foes?instance=sports_top Title: Re: Mississippi's Nutt, Alabama's Saban familiar foes Post by: 2Stater on October 14, 2011, 10:59:56 AM Quote The veteran Southeastern Conference coaches face each other for the 10th time when No. 2 Alabama travels to face Mississippi on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. "I feel he's one of the best coaches in the league in terms of how his teams play, the difficulties in preparing to play his teams and utilizing the personnel they have," Saban said. "All the things in consideration from my standpoint, I have the utmost respect for Houston and the job he has done for a lot of years." But the coaching rivalry has lost some luster in recent years because it's become so one-sided. Saban has a 7-2 record against Nutt in a series that dates back to 2000 when Saban was at LSU and Nutt was at Arkansas. Nutt won two out of the first three in the series, but Saban has won six straight dating back to 2003. Saban has a lot of respect for Nutt. When he left LSU for Miami it is my understanding he recommended Nutt for the LSU job. http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/16046999/article-Mississippi-s-Nutt--Alabama-s-Saban-familiar-foes?instance=sports_top Tomorrow will be 7. :D |