call me crazy, but I don't think Saban is going to be at Alabama for much longer. He's 62 years old, he's already won 3 BCS titles at Alabama, there really is nothing left for him to prove in college. If he wins it again this year, I think he's as good as gone.
I think much like Pete Carroll, he's going to take another stab at the NFL, but this time it will be completely on his terms and he won't jump on the chance to coach a turd franchise (which is what the Miami Dolphins are and have been for a long time) like he did last time.
If the Detroit Lions run amok this season and Schwartz gets fired, that's not a bad job to jump at. There is a really nice young nucleus of talent there. Stafford has all of the talent in the world, huge arm, young kid with great upside. He'd have a young, proven, supremely talented QB. Stafford just turned 25 and he's thrown for 5,000 in back to back seasons with a very average OL and literally no running game. Yes, his TD numbers were way down in 2012, but literally every WR on the roster except Megatron was injured in 2012. Broyles, Young, Burelson, all injured. Burelson missed 10 games, Young 8, and Broyles was a rookie and missed 6.
Megatron goes without saying, most dominant WR in the game. Reggie Bush was a huge pick up for that offense and will give them a huge shot in the arm because of his versatility to run and catch to go along with homerun speed. That offense was so much more explosive with a healthy Javhid Best catching passes out of the backfield. On defense they have a young star on the interior in Suh and another one in the making in Fairley who had 6 sacks in his 2nd year in the league. Saban didn't have a QB last time he was in the NFL, and you can't win in the NFL without a QB.
Not saying he's going to Detroit, but I could see him going to a young team with a lot of young talent like that where all they'd really need is a few personnel pieces and a new coaching staff.
