Nick Saban questions whether the LSU and Florida jobs are better than Lane Kiffin\u2019s current job at Ole Miss on the new college landscape.<\/p>\n
The former Alabama – and former LSU coach – got candid this week about Kiffin\u2019s spot atop the coaching carousel\u2019s most-wanted coach list. <\/p>\n
\u201cJobs that weren\u2019t great jobs before are now,\u201d Saban told On3\u2019s Chris Low<\/a>. \u201cLane is the first name up for Florida and the first name up for LSU, but I think you can have a long debate on whether either one of those jobs is actually better than the job he has now because he has some guys over there at Ole Miss that give him pretty much whatever he wants from a roster standpoint. He may not necessarily have the same thing at Florida or LSU. So you look at these jobs differently now.\u201d<\/p>\n Saban, who turns 74 on Friday, knows a little something about Baton Rouge. He won his first national championship in 2003 at LSU, but, as he points out, these are different times.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, maybe you got facilities,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cMaybe you got money. Maybe you\u2019ve got alumni who are passionate about football, but are they willing to invest now to win? Because a lot of people don\u2019t believe in this s–t.\u201d<\/p>\n Saban, like many, doesn\u2019t like where the game is headed. He has said often he believes players should be compensated. What many, including the ESPN analyst, believe is the root problem with college football is also what will lead a program – any program – to a national championship.<\/p>\n \u201cIt gets down to not just who has the money, because a lot of these traditional schools have people who have money, but who\u2019s going to spend the money to get these players and how long are they willing to keep spending it,\u201d Saban said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the truth of it, whether me or anybody else likes it.\u201d <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Saban questions whether the LSU and Florida jobs are better than Lane Kiffin\u2019s current job at Ole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,19502,7702,99,18498,9593],"class_list":{"0":"post-260463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-ole-miss-rebels","13":"tag-sec","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-washington-state-cougars","16":"tag-west-coast-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}