Contract Extention in the works between Saban and Alabama

[Birmingham]

Looks like he's happy with the idea of being at Alabama for a long while.  At least longer than the 3-4 years that some predicted.  I've never heard of working on a contract extention with so much of the existing contract still ahead.  Anybody have any insight on that?

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/06/alabama_coach_nick_saban_in_ne.html

[The Prowler]

Sounds like he's outta there.  How many coaches have reworked their contracts or gotten contract extensions before they were canned?  Yup, he's out...poor bammers, their savior is gone.

[Birmingham]

Sounds like he's a out there.

????, is this my "reading comprehension" playing tricks on me again, prowlerperry?

[stewiegriffin]

Looks like he's happy with the idea of being at Alabama for a long while.  At least longer than the 3-4 years that some predicted.  I've never heard of working on a contract extention with so much of the existing contract still ahead.  Anybody have any insight on that?

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/06/alabama_coach_nick_saban_in_ne.html

just proves how desperate you "people" are, pay him all the money in the world and then give him more

[Kaos]

Nothing more than a recruiting ploy.  

Shula signed a contract extension the year before he was canned.  As did DuBose.  

Contract extensions mean nothing other than window dressing and more money for the grubbers.  

[The Prowler]

????, is this my "reading comprehension" playing tricks on me again, prowlerperry?

Na, your reading comprehension was right.....this time.  I was talking on my cell when I was typing.  I fixed the problem and I added the reasoning behind it.

[Birmingham]

Nothing more than a recruiting ploy. 

Not all coaches need to have a "recruiting ploy".  Given Saban's record of consistently bringing in top 5 classes, I'd say he's one of them.  He has a proven record as long as a limousine.

[boartitz]

Nothing more than a recruiting ploy.  

Shula signed a contract extension the year before he was canned.  As did DuBose.  

Contract extensions mean nothing other than window dressing and more money for the grubbers.  

Right.
Nutt bragged about his contract being good at Arkansas till 2012.

[AUChizad]

Slimebomb thinks you're stupid.

http://blog.al.com/press-register-sports/2009/06/with_no_buyout_extended_nick_s.html

With no buyout, extended Nick Saban contract has less teeth than front row at Neyland Stadium
Posted by Paul Finebaum, Sports Columnist June 30, 2009 12:36 AM
Categories: Alabama Football, Football, SEC

What's next at the University of Alabama, wonders Press-Register columnist Paul Finebaum: A big press conference where a stern-faced President Robert Witt states: "After much deliberation, we are officially changing the name of our great football edifice to Bryant-Denny-Saban Stadium." What's next? Bryant-Denny-Saban Stadium?

There was a big buzz the other day about Nick Saban getting a contract extension. The Tide Nation exhaled. Whew, they seemed to be saying in unison -- we dodged another bullet.

Are you kidding me?

Is there a bigger non-event in college football than Alabama's head coach getting an extension that has less teeth than the front row at Neyland Stadium? There is no buyout in the agreement -- meaning he can leave anytime. So what's the point?

 
One can only imagine what the next move will be. A big press conference where a stern faced President Robert Witt states the following: "After much deliberation, we are officially changing the name of our great football edifice to Bryant-Denny-Saban Stadium."

Or better yet, just rip Bryant and Denny's name off the joint. What did those guys do at Alabama anyway compared to Nick Saban?

This sudden surge of contract talk comes immediately following another back flip by Witt on the NCAA appeal. Anyone who watched Witt on the day the NCAA sanctions were announced could sense he was embarrassed to be there. Academicians don't like NCAA probation on their watch. It was noteworthy that Witt said nothing about an appeal. Just your didactic university president gobbledygook.

Then why the turnaround a few days later?

Why ask why when everything with Alabama's football program is done for the same reason -- pleasing Nick Saban.

Some of those vacated games were on Saban's watch. Apparently, Saban was concerned it might reflect badly on the recruiting trail so the university filed the appeal. OK, fine. But how does that equal a one-way contract extension?

Saban is a fabulous football coach and the best thing to hit Tuscaloosa since Paul Bryant. Last year was spectacular. This year should be huge. Saban is a recruiting machine. Pure genius. There is nothing wrong with the school supporting him and giving him every tool and toy in the arsenal. That's called commitment.

However, there is a fine line between strong support and simply giving Saban absolute power. This is still the University of Alabama, right? This is not the University of Nick Saban.

What you have now is a scared straight school president and a spineless Board of Trustees, particularly, when it concerns Saban.

And Mal Moore, the Tide's 69-year-old athletic director, who instead of being gracefully phased out two weeks ago in the wake of yet more sanctions on his watch received a bizarre vote of confidence by Witt and his bumbling brothers on the Board of Trustees.

As stated recently in this space, Moore is a wonderful person who is beloved as a human being. Let's give him a gold watch and the necessary kudos honoring his career, then move on.

So what did President Witt say about Moore?

"I believe we have the finest athletic director anywhere in the country," Witt said. The prez must not get out of town very much.

That might be the dumbest statement I've read since George W. Bush wrapped his arms around his FEMA director Michael Brown at the Mobile Airport (in the aftermath of Katrina) and said, "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."

Moore also received support from the President pro tem of the Board of Trustees. "We are very lucky to have Mal Moore," said Finis E. St. John IV.

I don't know about you, but I'm always a little leery of anything said by someone who either has four or more names or a "IV" at the end.

Regardless, at some point this summer, the university will proudly announce that Nick Saban, who is about to begin the third year of an eight-year, $32 million contract (running through 2014), and has absolutely no buyout penalty for leaving at anytime, has been extended until the end of mankind.

Will Alabama fans feel more secure knowing a man who walked out on contracts at Michigan State, LSU and the Miami Dolphins has finally put down roots for good in Tuscaloosa?

[Snaggletiger]

Whatever..that's the way all D1 schools do their contracts.  Everyone does it like that...just like every school appeals all NCAA sanctions when they get busted.  All of them.  You guys are just nit-picking.

[Birmingham]

Slimebomb thinks you're stupid.

You couldn't have made me feel better about this.  Thank you.

[AWK]

His point was that the contract extension is pointless...is that much of a point?