Which team does Nick Saban coach?”
This is along the lines of what Alabama wanted Jan. 4, 2007, when Crimson Tide athletics director Mal Moore introduced Nick Saban as the football team’s new coach. Alabama 32, Florida 13. The Crimson Tide has won a Southeastern Conference championship, its first since beating the same opponent on the same Georgia Dome field 10 years and two days ago. On Saturday, Alabama took the Gators, their No. 1-ranking, their 22-game win streak, their Golden Boy quarterback and their two national championship rings in the past three years and grinded it all into the Georgia Dome turf. About an hour after Saturday’s SEC Championship game ended, about a half-dozen Georgia Dome workers went over the artificial turf with heavy-bristle brooms and buckets of water and cleaning solution. Maybe they were trying to clean up what was left of Florida. Alabama didn’t leave much behind. Crimson Tide quarterback Greg McElroy said afterward that he expected a boxing match, and he and his teammates got one – they
ATLANTA — As somebody said outside the Alabama locker room Saturday night, the worst thing you can do with Nick Saban is give him a road map. His road map in the SEC championship game came in the form of a bitter 31-20 loss to Florida in last year’s title game. You might beat him once. But beating him in back-to-back years? It’s only happened once since he’s been in the SEC. “You’ve got to give our coaches credit. The game plan was unbelievable, and we felt like going in that this was one of our better game plans of the season,” Alabama linebacker Cory Reamer said. “We did a great job executing it, but we were so prepared for this game.” Indeed, Alabama looked one step ahead of Florida the whole way in ending the Gators’ 22-game winning streak with a 32-13 demolition of the defending national champions in an SEC championship game that was even more anticipated than the one a year ago. [+] EnlargeNick Saban Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesNick Saban kept Alabama one step ahead of Florida the
Nicholas Lou “Nick” Saban (born October 31, 1951) is the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team. Saban has previously served as head coach of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins and three other NCAA universities: LSU, Michigan State and Toledo. His eight-year contract for a total of $32 million made him one of the highest paid college football coaches in the United States at the time.[6] He appeared on the September 1, 2008 cover of Forbes magazine as “Sports’ most powerful coach”.[7] Saban’s career record as a collegiate head coach is 123–50–1.
