ESPN’s Bill Barnwell rates the Saints as least desirable job for HC candidates [mod edit]

Saint Jack said

I don’t wanna get into a college Vs pro debate, but there is a stigma to coaches that only succeed in college.
For all of Saban’s accomplishments in Bama; he is largely known as a failure in the pro circuit.

Even with the most successful head coaches in college; they become less known as you get further from the college towns and into metro cities that house pro teams.

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That's because unlike his tenure at Michigan State, LSU, or Alabama, in the NFL, Saban couldn't be the absolute control-freak dictator who's will is final and can tell 3-4 star recruits back in the day to sit for a few seasons until "their turns came around". For most of Saban's NCAAF tenure, he didn't have to worry about FA, NIL, the transfer portal where good players could transfer or leave at-will to a team or rival that will start them now or sooner. To succeed in the NFL, previously successful college HC's like Pete Carroll, Jimmy Johnson, John Robinson, even Bill Walsh had to alter or change their strategies, demeanors, attitudes and opinions towards how the entire business side of the NFL works.

Saban, for all his success and accomplishments, is just too hard-wired, opinionated and resolute in his personality to ever attempt to adapt to that reality to be a successful NFL HC. Great position coach, but that's all.