He has been successful at LSU and Alabama. He may have had some help at those two stops, but he was able to develop plans on how to build those programs and was successful in doing it. I am not a fan of Saban, but he is very good at what he does, and that takes certain attributes as Ethnic pointed out.
Or maybe he absolutely loves what he is doing and wants to coach at a high level as long as possible.
Exactly. He's an extraordinary college football coach. He enjoys unfair advantages in bringing in top talent, but there also don't seem to be disciplinary issues with the players on the team. He knows how to identify talent, both in players and coaches, and how to extract the talent and focus it. He knows that if a coach is good at one thing, to have them only do that one thing. He's a tiny little guy but commands respect and wont hesitate to yell at anyone. He hates dealing with the media but seems amiable enough in practice videos. He holds people accountable and does not tolerate anything less than peak performance.
…in college. Abject failure in the pros
Sabag is spectacularly awesome at his current job and excels better than anyone in a specific climate. Nothing else you mention necessarily translates to anything else as it didn't even translate to a different level of football when he was in the NFL.
He doesnt get paid for any of that, who cares.. He is a college football coach and the best at it, hey saban can you define compound interest, GOOGLE!!!
Hence why I said he's spectacularly awesome at his job and does it better than anyone else in a specific climate.
People say the same thing about other super driven people in their specified field.. Those laser traits allow them to thrive, its a gift n curse. They focus soo much on those things that other things in life dont matter so from outside it might seem that way.. I think its cool when someone can find their calling, be elite at it and thrive and also in this world find a way to get paid kings ransom for it..
100% on Saban/Urb. Yeah do they have a unfair advantage at some of the schools? Of course but 1. They didn’t always have that advtange until they got those big jobs and still won 2. We see year in and year out bag schools across the country and still suck. So clearly you still need to coach in order to win.
He may not want to comment on current events or anything other than football because it’s a no-win situation. I don’t know if he’s a member of Mensa or a dope outside of football, but discussing world events for a coach or an athlete is a recipe for disaster, so if he avoids it for those reasons, then he is smarter than I thought. And, btw, f$&k Saban and Alabama.
I don't disagree at all about your last statement. We all should be so lucky to find a calling that perfectly matches our abilities and desires and passions and then utilize that combination to be wildly successful at it.
I concede that point, but it really says more about the person pouring the champagne. Urban is an elite college coach and one of the biggest pieces of sh*t in the modern game.
I agree with the dangers in wading in a ton of current events as a sports figure or even a public figure but I also have some anecdotal evidence from his time in Miami that backs up the idea that the guy wouldn't be a successful chemist or engineer or economist or whatever if he had just decided to go down that route instead of football. Maybe a high school gym teacher....not that there's anything wrong with that.
Who cares. This is a Miami Hurricanes College Football board. The NFL is boring.
