I think Saban is a good coach but the thing about that makes everyone goes wild is that he recruits great. If he would've got the UT job instead of strong, we would be saying he was a bad hire because he doesn't have a QB here. Give Strong or half the coaches the Alabama team and we would be saying that they are great coaches. It reminds me of Phil Jackson of the Bulls, He had Jordan. LA, he had Shaq and Kobe. Put him on a crappie team, he would have been a nobody coach. Once Strong get his point guard (QB), we will see great things. Saban style doesn't fit what the state of Texas run. That's why he would fail here
I am optimistic about what Strong's doing here, so don't take this as saying otherwise, but this take is
way off. Saban would dominate here.
Dominate. Just like he has at Alabama. He's an extremely cerebral and obsessively detail-oriented coach, and his excellence goes far, far beyond great recruiting. There's absolutely no way he would fail here, and there's nothing about Texas HS football or football in the Big 12 that would keep him from succeeding. Saban plus a blue-blood CFB program is the surest bet in sports.
He's already been the HC of a crappy program (Michigan State did truly suck back then), and that program reached 10 wins for the first time in 34 years during his final season. Then he went to a place that hadn't won the SEC since the 1980s, won the conference and a BCS bowl in his second year, had a team decimated by injury the following season, and then returned the following year to win the conference and the national championship for only the second time in that program's history.
If Saban were coach here, we'd be in much better shape right now. Saban would have been able to sign an outstanding 2014 class, despite only having 1.5 months to put it together, because he's Nick Saban. He was already indisputably the greatest coach in CFB at that point. Whereas most would have to have accepted Mack's mediocre 2014 class largely as it was, try to hold most of it together, try to address defections of talented players with serviceable replacements, and perhaps try to upgrade modestly at a few spots, Saban's 2014 class rather than his 2015 class would be his leaders on the field this coming season. Saban's unmatched reputation would have brought with it the likelihood that he would successfully meet any need that he felt had to be addressed by grad transfers, regular transfers, or JUCOs.
In any case, as someone else said, this was an idiotic point for Maverick to raise in the first place. To fail to do what Saban would have done is not the measurement of failure. If it were, then everyone, with the possible exception of Urban Meyer, would have been a failure.