Michigan Tuesday: Sounds Like Nuss Wasn't Pushed Out at Bama

Michigan fans haven't been this excited about a new coach (the hiring Doug Nussmeier) hire since Greg Mattison was hired by Brady Hoke.  The one exception to that excitement is that many Michigan fans believed Nuss might have been pushed out at Alabama by Nick Saban's flirtation with former USC head coach Lane Kiffin. 

Lane of course has backfilled Nuss at Alabama.  So the question remains: Why was Nuss pushed out at Bama?   Eli Gold the voice of Alabama Football believes Nuss wasn't pushed out at all, Nick was just looking for another set of eyes on his offense.

"Last year the coach brought the University of Oklahoma staff to Tuscaloosa to go over stuff after winning the national championship," he said. "A couple years prior it was somebody else's staff. Nick always does that. This is nothing new. They've always shared, always with somebody and vice versa. The Alabama staff is often invited to go elsewhere."

"I guarantee, Nick Saban doesn't do anything that will in any way embarrass him or anybody on his staff," he said. "If Lane Kiffin had been brought in in an undercover role to pick out a desk before [Nussmeier] left, nobody would have known Lane Kiffin was in town. They would have stashed him in Alabama in some Motel 6. He would not have been front and center for people to see him in the football complex. That's not Nick Saban's style.

"Likely, what went on here is going to be different than what will happen at Michigan. When he came in and before him, Jim McElwain, they were brought in to run the Nick Saban Alabama offense. They were not brought in to change or revolutionize the offense. Nick, like Bill Belichick for whom he worked with the Cleveland Browns, it's my way or highway. He brought in Nuss who had outstanding credentials and was blemish free not to change anything, but to further polish the piece of clay that was A.J. McCarron. He did just that."

Eli clearly believes that Nuss was not pushed out and still would be at Bama today if he hadn't jumped to the Wolverines.    If you look at Bama's year, the reason they lost their last two games was due to a freak special teams play and the defense giving up a ton of yards.