{"id":265023,"date":"2025-11-01T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265023\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:49:07","slug":"nick-saban-encourages-lsu-to-go-after-previous-recruits-in-transfer-portal-after-brian-kelly-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265023\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban encourages LSU to go after previous recruits in transfer portal after Brian Kelly firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a tumultuous week for LSU<\/a>. The school parted ways with head coach Brian Kelly<\/a> on Sunday and then with athletic director Scott Woodward on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Led by interim AD Verge Ausberry and its new president (who will be announced on Tuesday), the program will conduct its first nationwide coaching search since Kelly was hired prior to the 2022 season. Ahead of that search, former LSU head coach and college football legend Nick Saban<\/a> offered some advice to the program and whoever it brings on as its new head coach.<\/p>\n

Saban, who won a National Championship at LSU in 2003, discussed the importance of keeping up with players that you may have lost in recruiting. In today\u2019s day and age of the Transfer Portal<\/a>, you\u2019ve never truly lost a player if you can get him back with one phone call and a blank check.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s a great strategy,\u201d Saban said. \u201cIf you\u2019re in a place that historically has a lot of good players coming out of high school, if that guy went to another school, I would track that guy\u2019s career from day one. That\u2019s because eventually, you can get him back. Bring him back. If you lose the first time, get him the second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you might be better off because he might have developed a little bit and he could be more ready to play and more mature. So, I would definitely do that and that\u2019s definitely something LSU should do like Texas<\/a> did (with Quinn Ewers<\/a>).\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Saban denied rumors pertaining to a return to coaching<\/p>\n

With the opening at LSU, many have brought up Saban\u2019s name as Brian Kelly\u2018s potential replacement. This includes NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay (who predicted that LSU will make Saban reconsider retirement<\/a>) and CBS Sports\u2018 Bryant McFadden (who described Saban as being a whale in a pond of fish when it came to LSU\u2018s coaching search<\/a>), just to name a few.<\/p>\n

During last Friday\u2019s appearance on \u2018The Pat McAfee Show\u2018 however, Saban made it clear. He is enjoying retirement and his role as a panelist on ESPN\u2018s College GameDay every Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way,\u201d Saban responded when asked if he\u2019d think about coming out of retirement. \u201cI have so much fun working with you (directed at Pat McAfee<\/a>). Why would I go do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

With high-profile names such as Ole Miss<\/a>\u2018 Lane Kiffin<\/a>, Notre Dame<\/a>\u2018s Marcus Freeman<\/a>, Georgia Tech<\/a>\u2018s Brent Key<\/a>, Louisville<\/a>\u2018s Jeff Brohm<\/a> and Tulane<\/a>\u2018s Jon Sumrall<\/a> floated as candidates for the job, it will be extremely interesting who LSU\u2018s search firm decides on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a tumultuous week for LSU. The school parted ways with head coach Brian Kelly on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[127580,99],"class_list":["post-265023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-nick-saban-69-monongah","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265023","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=265023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}