Nick Saban to Alabama
After repeatedly telling reporters that he would not take the Alabama job, they finally offered him enough money that it was a no brainer for him. Besides, college coaches are college coaches. Saban is a college coach. He improved that Dolphin team but he got a good glimpse of the NFL and could see that the players only cared about money. They don’t have the passion that college players have.
Anyway, Alabama is a contender again. Not to sound like an Alabama fan (I’m not), but they only had 3 starting seniors this year and a lot of other SEC teams are losing their QBs over the next 2 years. By 2009, the Tide could be a Top 5 BCS team and it wouldn’t surprise me if they are your 2011 National Champions.
The bigger impact I see is on other coaches. That contract is drastically going to change the economies of scale for coaching salaries. That in turn means that all you doaners out there need to up the ante even more so that your team will be able to keep the coach you have to hire a decent one. Any remotely decent coach is going to require 2-3 million now just to sign, and good ones will want deals like Saban got.
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