What if Nick Saban ran the state of Alabama?

Seriously? Football coaches seldom make great AD's, let alone Govenors. Unless the writer of this article is calling for an absolute dictatorship, I doubt most successful head coaches possess the political skills of compromise and persuasion needed to govern effectivly.

it would still be Alabama..........

100 years of a certain party's rule has truly ruined the state of Alabama.

Saban as Governor....

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Originally posted 08:25 AM ET  03.14 by DearbornSparty

Seriously? Football coaches seldom make great AD's, let alone Govenors. Unless the writer of this article is calling for an absolute dictatorship, I doubt most successful head coaches possess the political skills of compromise and persuasion needed to govern effectivly.

I'd rather have Saban than ours.

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Originally posted 08:26 AM ET  03.14 by HILLBILLY

it would still be Alabama..........

LAMO...that's good right there Hillbilly.

Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.

"Oh Alabama, the devil fools with the best laid plan,
Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders that's breaking your back.
Your Cadillac, has got a wheel in the ditch and a wheel on the track.
You got the rest of the Union to help you along,,
Whats going wrong?!"

We have our AD, a man universally respected throughout the college athletic world, in the hospital in pretty bad shape. He has worked at Notre Dame and no one has ever had a bad thing to say about him, and this is what they decide to focus on.

Go, S.I., Go.

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Originally posted 08:25 AM ET  03.14 by DearbornSparty

Seriously? Football coaches seldom make great AD's, let alone Govenors. Unless the writer of this article is calling for an absolute dictatorship, I doubt most successful head coaches possess the political skills of compromise and persuasion needed to govern effectivly.

Coach Tom Osborne made for a great AD and was a big favorite out there in Nebraska's corn fed republican 3rd district.

Wait, I though Sir Charles Barkley was gonna be Da Guv of Alabama?

WTFjj?!?

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Originally posted 09:19 AM ET  03.14 by Joe Kidd #1

We have our AD, a man universally respected throughout the college athletic world, in the hospital in pretty bad shape. He has worked at Notre Dame and no one has ever had a bad thing to say about him, and this is what they decide to focus on. Go, S.I., Go.

I see SI says the problems "aren't that bad". Sounds like to me on local news that that is not quite the story.

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Originally posted 09:19 AM ET  03.14 by Joe Kidd #1

We have our AD, a man universally respected throughout the college athletic world, in the hospital in pretty bad shape. He has worked at Notre Dame and no one has ever had a bad thing to say about him, and this is what they decide to focus on. Go, S.I., Go.

I hadn't heard Mal was sick, sorry to hear it. Is it really bad?

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Originally posted 09:21 AM ET  03.14 by GR=O-6fan

I hadn't heard Mal was sick, sorry to hear it. Is it really bad?

Sounds pretty serious here. They say he has some serious heart issues. They said he was flown to Duke Medical Center (Don't know its actual name).

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Originally posted 08:57 AM ET  03.14 by Deep Creek

I'd rather have Saban than ours.

Not to govern the state. I think the subject title is ridiculous.

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Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  03.14 by Joe Kidd #1

Sounds pretty serious here. They say he has some serious heart issues. They said he was flown to Duke Medical Center (Don't know its actual name).

Duke is a top medical facility.

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Originally posted 09:20 AM ET  03.14 by GR=O-6fan

Wait, I though Sir Charles Barkley was gonna be Da Guv of Alabama? WTFjj?!?

Barkley makes Ventura and Schwarzenegger look like Einstein.

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Originally posted 09:20 AM ET  03.14 by VanByTheRiver

Coach Tom Osborne made for a great AD and was a big favorite out there in Nebraska's corn fed republican 3rd district.

Osborne looks like Clint Eastwood. Saban looks like Kevin Spacey.

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Originally posted 09:27 AM ET  03.14 by brotha68

Not to govern the state. I think the subject title is ridiculous.

Ever hear of Rick Perry brotha?

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Originally posted 09:19 AM ET  03.14 by Joe Kidd #1

We have our AD, a man universally respected throughout the college athletic world, in the hospital in pretty bad shape. He has worked at Notre Dame and no one has ever had a bad thing to say about him, and this is what they decide to focus on. Go, S.I., Go.

In spite of our frequent "jabs" about ND and Alabama you are "spot on" about Mal Moore. He is respected and admired greatly on both sides of the Mason Dixon line. Godspeed for a speedy recovery Mal...