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CaneSince4Ever said:
Schnellenberger built this $h!t.

LOL @ some bozo that quit in 78' being responsible for the REAL Architect Of UM Football winning a Natty in 83'.
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I don't believe any poster has said that Lou Saban built this ****, or that he was the real architect of UM football.

What Lou did was recruit local talent and stop UM's freefall to no program. He put in the footings for the foundation.

Yes, Schnellenberger built this ****. And, Schnellenberger's accomplishments are not diminished by giving Lou Saban due credit for stopping the bleeding.
 
MiamiJoe said:
Saban brought Jim Burt with him, recruited Jim Kelly, Fred Marion, Ronny Lippett, Lester Williams and brought discipline to a program that was floundering. He turned Ottis Anderson into a first round pick. Canesincewhatever is clueless
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You Sir, are 100% dead on.
Saban began the turn around that Howard would take to the next level. after Carl Selmer's 3 and 8 season in 1975 (or '76?) the BOT was a razor's edge away from dropping football. Saban went 5and 6 his 1st season and 6 and 5 in his second, his last. He was poised to win 7 or 8 games the following season, but just up and left over something that seems trivial today. He was flaky like that, but he was a **** of a coach and recruiter.
He definitely didn't leave the cupboard bare for Schnellenberger.
 
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Resigned like year 3. Made fun of a kid who got thrown in the lake. Controversy ensued. He was then gone. He gets some credit. But Howard was the innovative HC we needed.
 
JTKoval said:
Resigned like year 3. Made fun of a kid who got thrown in the lake. Controversy ensued. He was then gone. He gets some credit. But Howard was the innovative HC we needed.
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It was a couple players who threw a ****** man in the lake. Lou was not around and when he returned said getting throw in the lake sounded like fun— he was unaware the man was ******. Actually offered to resign but was talked into staying. He did end up leaving. Interestingly, the school gave him big money to get him. About $400k if I recall. That was serious HC money back then. People forget that Lou had won a couple AFL championships. He was certainly a rolling stone.
 
Lou Saban recruited my son to UCF in '83. Coach Saban told me that the only school he regretted leaving was the University of Miami. UCF required him to purchase a home in the area and he subsequently married the realtor who sold him the home..
 
I think most of the posters in here don’t even know Lou Saban. I had to look him up like “who the **** is Lou Saban?” **** we had a Saban at one point? Holy chit lol
 
daytonacane said:
Lou Saban recruited my son to UCF in '83. Coach Saban told me that the only school he regretted leaving was the University of Miami. UCF required him to purchase a home in the area and he subsequently married the realtor who sold him the home..
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Funny, how the successful coaches always regret leaving.
 
I think they're related, somehow.

I think Lou was coach at Buffalo when the first O.J. (Simpson) had his greeatest yrs, though I'd have to check that out.

Daytona, don't know if you remember Gary Greaves who might have played at the U with your husband, but she told me Lou was the real deal. A tremendous recruiter. He could get any player he wanted. She told me this around '85 or '86.

She would have said that Lou Saban had a lot to do with our emergence as a major power in the early '80's.
 
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CaneSince4Ever said:
Schnellenberger built this $h!t.

LOL @ some bozo that quit in 78' being responsible for the REAL Architect Of UM Football winning a Natty in 83'.
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Well, if you were really a Cane Since 4 Ever, you would have realized that Saban helped get the ball rolling for that first natty.
 
NorthEastCane said:
Funny, how the successful coaches always regret leaving.
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Great point..........every single Coach at the U......regretted leaving.....look it up.
Once it's in.........the orange and green stays, and never leaves.....all of them.....led by JJ who said it was the most fun gig of his life....even including the NFL.........that in itself says a **** of a lot.
 
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