AlabamaTraveler
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We were as shocked as the Georgia fans at half-time.....31-0 WOW!!!
We felt that the Tide had a chance to win, but no one could have ever imagined such a "blow-out". Its been a long time since the Crimson Nation has been so "high". Now, it becomes actually possible for them to go all the way...undefeated. In only his second year, this Saban guy is for real, and so is the Tide. ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!
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Doug4.7
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Just don't be like some of the fans of a team I follow and start calling for your coach's head just as soon as he has one bad season....
I am happy for Alabama. Just for giggles, I'd love to see AL & OK in the BCA championship.
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floridacamper
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GIVE THAT A COACH A RAISE? Isn't he already the highest or second highest paid coach in the nation.
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AlabamaTraveler
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Yea, he's the highest paid at about 6M per year. However, that win over Ga. was worth.........well, lets just say that it was priceless.
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There is plenty of money in the Alabama football program. We are proud to have Brother Saban. Roll Tide Roll
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msmechanic58
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About Saban's salary:
Excerpt from Forbes Magazine:
"But in Tuscaloosa, which was desperate to return to national football prominence, Saban, 56, was a savior, welcomed with an open wallet. Saban, with his agent, James E. Sexton II, negotiated an eight-year, $32 million contract that was, at the time, the highest salary ever paid to a college coach. It remains among the highest and is bigger than all but a handful of NFL coaching salaries. His deal includes, among other perks, 25 hours of private use of a university airplane, two cars and a country club membership, extras that make his annual compensation closer to $5 million a year, estimates Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist. He can leave the school at any time without financial penalty, a rarity in big-time college coaching contracts.
What's more, he was given total control of the football program: recruiting, coaching, business administration and public relations. There are coaches at other universities who have similar salaries, like Charlie Weis at Notre Dame and Pete Carroll at the University of Southern California. But no coach, including those in the professional leagues, can match Saban's combination of money, control and influence. Saban, now entering his second year as the coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, is the most powerful coach in sports.
Handing Saban the keys was a business decision. Bigger TV contracts and bowl game payouts helped push revenues for the Division 1-a colleges to $2 billion, up 25% in four years. Saban has already had an impact. At his first spring practice game 92,000 fans showed up. The waiting list for season tickets tripled after his arrival to 10,000. A stalled 10,000-seat stadium expansion now seems inevitable.
Alabama's football program had $54 million in revenue this past year and an estimated $32 million profit. The profit is used to pay off the athletic department's $130 million debt for capital improvements. Football finances 77% of the athletic department, bankrolling nonrevenue sports like swimming and softball. It also has kicked back millions of dollars to university academic programs.
But the economics of hiring Saban go well beyond athletics. The decidedly pro-football University of Alabama's president, Robert Witt, points to the school's recent $500 million capital campaign as an example. "We have had 100,000 donors in that campaign, and a major reason they support us is football," he says. It's no different at any other college with a football team. Why do Ivy League schools even bother to field teams that are never going to win a bowl game? It keeps the alumni money flowing. That's how you pay for the English department.
Witt says Saban's presence helps the school's academics by attracting strong applicants. In the 2007--08 year 57% of the students enrolled were in the top quarter of their high school class, up from 54% the year before. "Having a coach of his caliber makes it easier to recruit better students and raise more money," says Witt."
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