Does Nick Saban regret leaving LSU after all these years?
The legendary college football head coach had sent shockwaves throughout the sport twenty years ago when he left his post at LSU. Saban, who’d won a National Championship in 2003, left Baton Rouge for the National Football League and the Miami Dolphins.
That decision turned into a disaster. Saban went 15-17 as coach of the Dolphins, with one winning season – a 9-7 mark in 2005, when they finished in second place behind the New England Patriots. However, Nick left after the 2006 NFL season to take the open job at the University of Alabama. The rest is history, as they say.
Saban joined The Pat McAfee Show on Friday ahead of Georgia and Tennessee’s exciting tilt this Saturday. Saban admitted to McAfee that his decision to leave LSU may have been a mistake.
“You know, Terry and I loved it there. Probably made a mistake going back to pro ball from there,” Saban said via On3. “But only way we could go back to college was to go back to Alabama, but that’s a great rivalry. The LSU-Alabama is a great rivalry.”
Saban‘s move to the Dolphins is often criticized and considered one of the worst moves in modern football history. Of course, while he was there, NFL history . Saban’s Dolphins signed Daunte Culpepper over Drew Brees, who instead went to the New Orleans Saints. Culpepper wasn’t the same quarterback, and Brees helped guide the Saints to their first Super Bowl championship three years later.
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