Day By Day: How Bama Landed Saban

Discussion in 'Sports' started by Tenacious D, Mar 1, 2017.

  1. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    An exceptionally good article on Saturday Down South, providing a detailed account of how Bama landed Saban. It's worth a read for the casual fan, but more importantly, on The Hill. You do not, in fact, land a high-value coach in the course of a single phone call (as Hamilton and Currie, his then right-hand man, once attempted to do with a high-profile coach, or five).

    From the article:

    Find a Trusted Go-Between
    Find YOUR Guy
    Due Diligence / Do Work
    Make Your Timing
    It Pays to be Lucky
    Be All Aboard & ALL IN
    Patience is a Virtue
    It's ALL About Recruiting
     
  2. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    Guarantee the nephew doesn't get a call if a similar association existed with a high caliber candidate for a UT job. Nobody here would stoop to trying to use a non-AD person to help out.
     
  3. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    Well, it's been alleged that history proves you true, and that Tennessee failed to exercise more than a few deeply personal connections to at least one high-profile candidate, in the last several years...when Fulmer was fired, following Kiffin's departure, after Dooley's firing, etc.

    If both rumors are true and history is any indicator or future results, then I'm sure we'll fail to do the same when Jones inevitably gets ran. But as (bad) luck would have it, this new AD likely makes any worry of botching the hiring of a high-profile coach as a completely moot point, as we're not likely to be sufficiently close enough to that tier of coach to begin with.
     
  4. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Whatever, interviewing a guy and offering on the spot is how you do it properly.
     
  5. utvol0427

    utvol0427 Chieftain

    In a shoddy hotel room.
     
  6. volfanjo

    volfanjo Chieftain

    In a suburb of Lexington.
     
  7. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Third rate romance, third rate rondevouz.....
     

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