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Nick Saban (ex-HC Alabama Crimson Tide)

Gonna be honest it’s hard for me to listen to Saban talk about how players only care about money when he got a new contract whenever he wanted and made $124 million specifically from Alabama, a state university.

I don’t necessarily disagree with what he’s saying, and he is a good example to be speaking about it since he was ahead of the game in his desire for more money.

I like Nick as a football personality and look forward to seeing him on TV while he’s making $30 mill/year. If only the kids (many of them poor) didn’t care about money, right?
 
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Gonna be honest it’s hard for me to listen to Saban talk about how players only care about money when he got a new contract whenever he wanted and made $124 million specifically from Alabama, a state university.

I don’t necessarily disagree with what he’s saying, and he is a good example to be speaking about it since he was ahead of the game in his desire for more money.

I like Nick as a football personality and look forward to seeing him on TV while he’s making $30 mill/year. If only the kids (many of them poor) didn’t care about money, right?
They also paid for his mansion.
 
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And his three country club memberships. (had to work that in). Applaud the guy for going out on his terms, verticle instead of horizontal. Also, believe his best achievement (beyond championships, players, etc), was his 'reclamation projects' of fired HCs, giving them a job, and waiting as the bad juju passed by, before they went out and got a new HC gig. Seems like Bama's coaching carousel was always turning, giving him a new staff annually. Didn't seem to hurt their continuity much, no? Definitely gets my vote for G.O.A.T.
 
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Derrick Henry, who won Heisman Trophy at Alabama, reveals hilarious Nick Saban pet peeve​


"He couldn’t stand anybody scoring then wanting to celebrate afterward," he said.

That became apparent to Henry during one Alabama team meeting.

"We were in a meeting after a game – I forgot who we played," Henry recalled. "He pulled up film and showing everybody. He’s talking about, ‘You guys, stop doing that showboating, doing all that prayer hands, acting like you’re thanking God. Then, later on that night, 12 o’clock, you down there, got Black & Milds, got liquor. You’re chasing (girls). Forget all that."

It's no secret Saban was an old-school, no-nonsense coach. His style produced results, and he wasn’t going to change that.

Over the years, clips of him at practice have surfaced in which he’s yelling at future NFL stars.

Following his surprising retirement, Saban revealed a conversation he had with his wife Terry that led him to walk away from the game.

"All the things I’ve believed in for all these years — 50 years of coaching — no longer exist in college athletics," Saban said while on a panel in Washington, D.C., with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz had asked if the "current chaos" in college sports, specifically regarding NIL deals and the transfer portal, led to his retirement.

"It has always been about developing players, always been about helping people be more successful in life," Saban added.

"My wife even said to me — we have all the recruits over on Sunday with their parents for breakfast. She would always meet with the mothers and talk about how she was going to help impact their sons and how they would be well taken care of. She came to me right before I retired and said, ‘Why are we doing this?’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘All they care about is how much you’re going to pay them. They don’t care about how you’re going to develop them, which is what we’ve always done. So why are you doing this?’

"To me, that was sort of a red alert that we really are creating a circumstance here that is not beneficial to the young people, which is why I always did what I did. My dad did it, I did it. So that’s the reason I always like college athletics more than the NFL, because you had the opportunity to develop young people."
 
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And that explains exactly why my interest in college football has dimmed. A decision that will bump viewership for a short period of a couple of years and then damage the fan-brand link irreparably. This is over 100 years of an industry developing and nurturing brands that is going down the drain and I applaud a former Ohio State assistant coach for seeing that.
 
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Nick Saban Recalls Alabama Gas Station Employee Unknowingly Talking Trash After First-Year Loss To ULM​

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So, following the loss, explaining himself, hearing from recruits and the media, while the fans are demoralized, Nick Saban decided it was time to head on home. But there was just one problem, his gas tank was empty, which led to one of the funnier interactions in Alabama history.

"I get in my car to drive home and i don't have any gas in the car," Nick Saban recalled to a laughing audience. "So now I gotta stop at a self-serve, put some gas in the car. I used to wear my LSU national championship ring, so i go to pay the guy and the guy says ‘what’s that ring'? I said, Well, it’s a national championship ring from LSU and we’re gonna do the same thing here at Alabama.

"The guy looks at me and said, ‘We’ll never do it as long as that Nick Saban is the coach.’"


I wonder how that gas station manager feels about the former Alabama coach now.

:lol:
 
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