Nick Saban Essay

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Nick Saban Nick Saban, known as one of the greatest and successful coaches, is a man of a vision that has always tried to show us more than we can expect. As result, he is the only coach to win the college national championship at two different schools, with the LSU Tigers in 2003, that he was the head coach between 2000 and 2004, and with Alabama Crimson Tide in 2009, 2011 and 2012, that he has been the coach since 2007. Where according to an article by Saturday Down South,” Saban’s helped the Crimson Tide reclaim their throne as a southern juggernaut they last saw during a period of dominance in the 1960s and 70s”. Because of it, in 2013, he becomes the fourth coach to win four national titles , an achievement that was only achieved by Frank Leahy, Paul “Bear” Bryant and John …show more content…

After his excellent performance on the Michigan, in November 30, 1999, Saban became the 31st head coach of the LSU, which he guided for four seasons. With the Tigers, he won his first national title and led the team to the elite of the college football. During his first year (2000) with the Tigers, Saban already showed results, 8-4 (5-3 SEC), where most of these victories was against important teams, the 5th-ranked Georgia Tech in the Peach Bowl, Tennesse, Mississippi State and Ole Miss. In 2001, the Tigers improved the result a lot, 10-2 (5-3 SEC), with this results, LSU won the first outright SEC title since 1989, which the title game was against the second-ranked Tennessee, and the Tigers win with a score 31-20. Another important victory in 2001 was against seventh-ranked Illinois, which gave the Tigers the Sugar Bowl Title, with all these important victories the Tigers became the

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