Good take, Jay, but I’d like to add:

6. Collette Connell

Supporting evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Q6vRLaqe8

Jay, I am quite sure TET will blow up today. We all will be infected with a virus and get the “blue screen of death.” Don’t you know that speaking of “The Capstone” in the way will get you killed. Either the RBR folks will flame us here, or they will choose to ignore us all together. What do you think?

Great read though…

Ignore this…take the high road…let him spit his garbage and move on…

someone finally put it in writing.

I totally agree Jay! ROFLMAO! Your cunning and persuasive language stripped those delusional Bammers from any and all dignity they ever had! Keep up the great work!

I don’t know if I would call bama a top five job, either. I’m a bama fan, but a realistic one. The only thing I would argue on the list would be maybe put Texas or Oklahoma on that #5 spot. No one, save Florida, has that big of a recruiting base, and their facilities are obviously top notch.

All you have to do is look at how those three alumnus coaches have been vilified after the fact to know it’s a thankless job. If they’ll treat their own like that, imagine what they’ll do to an outsider.

If the job didn’t in fact come with more baggage than the Louis Vitton factory, neither Spurrier nor Rodriquez would have rebuffed them the way they did. And BTW, the only way Saban was lured was to give him enough power as so to make Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Il jealous…

Any of us are making Auburn out to be a better job. We are saying that alabama isnt a top five job. Please read the post before responding

Well, depends on from when we’re counting. This decade? Defintely, with Auburn staring at no worse than a 7-3 margin this new millenium. Since Saban arrived? Call it a draw. One and one. But since we got a new coach, looks like we’ll have to start counting over this November and then again once Saban’s gone…

Really, Auburn is the better job in the state? What a wonderfully unbiased opinion. You also tout that your athletic department is superior to Alabama’s, I guess this would be citing the recent success of your Women’s basketball and Swimming and Diving Programs? I would like to point to Alabama’s Softball and Gymnastics team, and don’t tell me the Jeff Lebo and Auburn’s Men Basketball team are a program worth being proud of. He’s an NIT coach and everyone knows it. Alabama is also not afraid to hire an African American who is qualified for our coaching positions, something Auburn cannot say. 5-19.

Now as far as football goes, let’s discuss the current events in the state of Alabama and the SEC. Alabama fans will have to concede that this decade belongs to Auburn. This decade has seen possibly the greatest years in Auburn football. But what has this meant to the Auburn football program? The decade has yielded only one SEC Championship. In a decade where Auburn has touted their winning percentage, trips to Atlanta are scarce. While this might be the decade of Auburn’s dominance in the state, in their greatest years they were still unable to truly dominate not only the conference but their own division. Auburn will also have to face the fact that the decade is about to be over and we will soon be in the 2010’s, and Auburn will enter these years with an unproven coach and an offense that has little confidence.

Is there desperation on the Auburn boards? Of course there is. Look to the talk about Alabama that Auburn has put forth. Claims of extreme probation being handed down, even though national sports writers disagree. During the weeks leading up to signing day, Auburn boards flooded with false reports of Jim McElwain’s departure the day after signing day. If Auburn truly feels like they have a firm grasp on this state, they are not acting like it. They are desperate to regain the ability to secure talent within their state, while Auburn fans tout their ability to gain Georgia and Florida talent their coach openly admits to putting their recruiting priority to being able to recruit some of the top ten athletes in the state of Alabama.

Is Alabama a top 5 job in the country? It has been at times and maybe it will be again soon, but to say it is right now would be wrong. Is the coaching position behind Auburn? Of course not. Alabama is a top tier SEC job even after the long run of mediocrity. This is a program with a history of winning, while Auburn is a program that has accumulated the same amount of SEC titles as Ole Miss.

The most important question for Auburn fans now shouldn’t be if their coaching position is better than Alabama’s. The question should be if they will be able to actually score a point in the Iron Bowl next year.

Roll Tide.

Strange. Apparently- it is not PRUDENT to insult a rival on your own website. Apparently-if Bammers had it their way-the Gestapo would pay us all a visit. Apparently-It is time for me to chime in and say a few things.

First, LSUJonno-if I didn’t hate LSU so much, I think that we would be friends.

Second, neither Alabama nor Auburn are a top 5 job. Pay-wise they are near the top. Recruiting-wise, we are both stellar. Bama, of course, gets the nod for being the banner carrier in Alabama because they are the name-sake of the state. However, both schools have issues with their fanbase. I would seriously have to give the nod to Auburn in this category. Alabama has searched long and hard for the Bear reincarnated. It has never happened. Since Paul Bryant left, there have been 7 headcoaches. In that same time, OUR “Cow” College has had three-now four. So, there really is no arguing that point. I’d have to say that Auburn would get the nod in the, “Who’s a better job”.

Alabama fans will throw a fit here. They will say I am bias. Well, no shit- I am. They will talk of championships and domination over Auburn. But, at the end of the day, 12 Championships, 10 in a row against Auburn, and for all of that domination, they hold a 5 game lead over us in head-to-head. Damn, I should know better than speak ill of that which is the “Crap-stone”.

War Eagle

What we’re arguing here is who the better COACHING JOB is. And ArieGold, you are right in saying that the nod goes to AUBURN in that respect, just by looking at the turnover rate.

like to fill some of us in on the whole narwhal joke before I go posting Sesame Street pics all over RBR?

is the insane pressure cooker that our coaches continually find themselves in. Your number one reason why UA is not desirable is “probation, probation, probation” amd you ask if there has ever been an institution that has been investigated more often…

As a matter of fact, there is. Auburn.

To be fair, Auburn is far from the only school with more violation investigations than Alabama. Auburn is number 3 all-time on the violations list, in the nation. Alabama isn’t even in the top 25. http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/03/sec_no_2_for_most_ncaa_infract.html

And I love that you guys feel that Saban is just “a phone call away” from leaving Bama.

Fun fact: back when Saban was the head coach of the Toledo Rockets, a reporter asked him what his all-time dream coaching job would be. Without hesitation, Saban replied “The University of Alabama”.

So he’s coaching at his dream job, he has an unprecidented amount of power over a program, his fanbase loves him, and he’s being paid out the wazoo. His ideals, his ego, and his pocketbook are all happy. He isn’t going anywhere.

Meanwhile, Auburn just ran the best coach they’ve had since Shug out of town, to be replaced with some guy who was the worst of a bad division.

Look- I WANT Auburn to be strong. Clearly, I’m an Alabama fan, but I honestly, from my heart, want to see Auburn win every game they play as long as the other team isn’t wearing Crimson. I think when both programs are strong, it makes the Iron Bowl that much more amazing. Sure, I laughed a little this year at the 36-0 ass whipping, manhood taking beatdown that Auburn had to take, but honestly I’d rather have seen a close game that went down to the last second.

That’s why I hate to see Auburn heading this way.

Either way, be honest about it. Is Alabama as amazing a coaching job as it was back in the ’80’s? Absolutly not. Is it still a better job than 99% of schools out there? If you can handle the pressure inherrit in the position, absoolutly.

And I have a feeling that Saban can handle the pressure just fine =)

I could bang on these people all day, but let’s move on. I want to address why Alabama is not among the top five coaching jobs in the country and why they probably aren’t among the top five in the SEC. Here we go…

In the final analysis, Alabama’s head coaching job falls behind those at Florida, LSU, Georgia, Tennessee and Auburn.

then you say…

We are not justifying we are better

I get why would say that we aren’t in the top 5 in the country but you are in fact saying the Auburn job is better….but the fact ( and it is a fact even if you don’t want to believe it) was that when the Alabama job opened up, we had some pretty big names associated with it. When those guys went elsewhere (or stayed put) we were able to hire a guy with a proven track record of winning (SEC championships and a NC) When the Auburn job opened up…you were forced to hire a guy who’s track record was terrible…. If you want to say that the Alabama job falls behind that of Auburns….it just simply isn’t true. If it were…we wouldn’t have gotten Saban…and guys would have hired someone MUCH better than Chizik.

Here is what I don’t get… Barners are always throwing the fact that Bama fans can’t get over the past but all yall do is throw the past in our faces….if you want US to move on…guess what? YOU guys have to also..Sure 5 years ago it looked bleak in T-town. But now…the future is extremely bright.

The simple FACT is..ALABAMA just went to a SEC championship game AND played in a BCS game (doesn’t matter that we lost….getting there is the point)….the FACT is that ALABAMA just reeled in another #1 recruiting class ( BACK TO BACK) compared to Your #??? The FACT is that ALABAMA’s future looks MUCH brighter…. I know this is hard pill to swallow but the truth always is.

crap..can’t believe i got sucked into this dumb debate…

WAR DANG EAGLE HEY!! SIX IN A ROW BAMMERS!!

THIRTY SIX TO ZERO! :P

…“is laughing at how obsessed with us the bammers are, spending this much time on our website.” Just look around YouTube. Any video that shows Auburn football against anybody, not just alabama — it can be AU/Florida, AU/LSU, AU/Tennessee, AU/UGA, AU/Nebraska, etc. — any video that shows Auburn football, there are twice as many posts from alabama fans who are trying to make themselves feel superior by looking up AU stuff and commenting on it. That’s sad, people. I don’t spend my time looking up alabama videos or posts or anything because I have no desire to associate with it. Yet you people continue to think you have something to prove to Auburn fans. We don’t care what you have to say. We’re never going to agree with you. So get over it. War Eagle!