How's that Saban Investment working out...heres the numbers

[beachbumdawg]

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While you're flipping through channels, trying to watch six games at once, here's something to chew on. Remember all that hoopla when Alabama coach Nick Saban signed that 8-year, $32-million deal?

Well, besides the fact that he's actually not the <font color="#003399">highest paid coach</font> anymore, the complaints still come. Turns out, it's not such a bad deal after all.</p>

<font color="#003399">Check out this article written</font> by the Associated Press' John Zenor. It explains what Alabama gained by hiring Saban (besides the No. 2 ranking, etc.)</p>

A few quick numbers:</p>

-- In 2006, Alabama made just over $43 million, with $14 million from outside contributions.
-- In 2007, it made $53 million, (up 19%) with outside contributions of $19.5 million (up 28%).
-- There is a 10,000-person season ticket waiting list.
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If the success continues.....wonder what this years (2008) numbers will be.....I guess that is what happens when you hire a coach (Cohen) the fan base can get excited over

 

[Croomp]

sounds like they need to start funding a stadium expansion if they got a 10,000 people waiting list. Thats a lot of profit stuck in the parking lost.

 

[sixpackmafia]

.......if we got rid of the 40% of our fanbase that feels its ok to lose, we would be able to do something along the elite

 

[Mr Meoff]

how to run a D-1 program from day one. Not an NFL running backs coach. Not an 'up and coming' former High School or JuCo coach. Get someone who knows what the hell he is doing in college football. That extra million (or two) per year pays off tenfold -- in season ticket sales, in bowl revenue, in stupid logo apparel, and in stinky stadium cup sales. It just doesn't make sense in today's world not to spend the extra million dollars for a proven head coach. It's a drop in the bucket.

Example: What does Tubby make? 2.8 mm? Take a few of our new SEC windfall dollars and shell out the extra 1.1 for him at the end of the year when he gets canned by an unruly (and maybe unrealistic) fanbase.

I'm not bashing Sly so much as our former AD. I hope Croom wins every game he coaches from here on out at MSU. It's not Croom's fault he didn't know one damn thing about college football in the 21st century when he was offered a job in the SEC. He had to learn from day one, and he's still learning today (when to go for it on 4th down, when to call timeouts, etc., etc. etc.) I am just hoping Byrne learns from that mistake, if we ever find ourselves hiring another coach.

Think about Nutt's running start to Croom's four-year learning curve. Or, look at a Saban vs. Charlie Weiss. There really is no comparison.