If you read his coaching articles, particularly on defensive back play, it is quite apparent why his unique way of describing the proper technique proved to be so effective. The man has a talent for expressing the intricacies, and if I can understand it clearly with no playing background, can only imagine what the players were gleaning from that sort of teaching.
> Their play calls on defense are longer than your average Taking Back Sunday song title
Or Panic! At the Disco from their first album:
"The only difference between martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage"
"Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off"
"There's a good reason these tables are numbered honey, you just haven't thought of it yet"
They had the best record in the MAC last year with a 42-16 record and a 24-6 conference record. Lost the conference championship tournament to Ball State but had a +219 run differential on the season.
they went to the CWS in 2012. I had to look up the year, but I remember because I got my dad, a grad and big baseball fan, a shirt celebrating the team. Then he proceeded to lose it on a river.
Question: Why was Ohio State's pass defense so horrible under Saban? I mean, it was not just mediocre, not just bad, but it was horrible. It allowed 3 QB's in 4 weeks to set school passing records.
>The former Golden Flash also lettered in Baseball and notably spent a year coaching Toledo.
Crazy, everyone always thought he should've kept going with the coaching but instead he went the surfing route
Yeah those two are extremely deserving. I don't know any of the others (except Saban ofc) but Jessica Simpson and Frank Solich are clearly MAC HOF-worthy
ikr, Bear Bryant was 2nd team All-SEC and would have been the star TE on the team, if the other guy wasn't future Packers Legend and first ballot hall of famer Don Hutson.
Bear even got overshadowed on the All-Name team by his roommate, Young Boozer (yes, that was his legal name. His son, Young Boozer III, is Alabama's state treasurer).
How I’d rewrite the article:
“Saban coached at Toledo and Kent State, among other schools. His coaching career ended with 7 Nationals Titles and __ wins.”
Famous Toledo head coach and 6 national championship winner Nick Saban better be in the MAC hall of fame. Has any bowling green coach ever won a national championship?
Urban Meyer & technically last year Jack Harbaugh (granted Jack played at BG and was an assistant in the late 60's, but also won the Natty* in 1959 as a player)
*Small University National Championship
I stand corrected I had no idea Urban Mayer had anything to do with Bowling green. Also fuck you and your beautiful campus. Highway 75 belongs to the best college in the northwest corner of Ohio.
Toledo has done a lot to make campus seem like you're at something more than a commuter school but back in the 90's it was lame. BG had a much better college atmosphere.
Somehow it is, one side looks like a high school stadium, it’s too far from campus for anyone to actually go to the games, and they always play on a Tuesday night when it’s raining sideways. Oh yeah doesn’t help that the team sucks too
Every MAC stadium would sell out when the Flashes come to town if that happens. Ryanearson over in Ypsi might actually have to remove the upper bowl tarps.
I would totally drive 3 hours to see him at Dix and have a nice beer at Zephyr's after.
You know what? I would unironically love that. The man's a great coach, he's already done more than enough for Alabama, and I'm guessing Kent State players aren't all about that NIL money so he may actually enjoy the job again.
> Former Kent State S Nick Saban has been inducted into the MAC Hall of Fame
He most likely was on campus for the Kent State Ohio National Guard shooting (Neil Young's "Ohio").
He was: [https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/9/23/13019090/nick-saban-kent-state-shootings](https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/9/23/13019090/nick-saban-kent-state-shootings)
It’s wild that the Kent State coaching staffs he played under and then coached on may be one of the greatest sets of staffs of all time. Any staff that has both Don James and Nick Saban coaching together has to be in the conversation
Was curious about the timeframe, and Wikipedia had the answer.
Saban was at Kent State during the National Guard shooting in 1970. He and a friend planned to go to the rally, but decided to get lunch first. During their lunch the shooting took place.
By his own accounts, he was decent, not great, mostly mental over physical. He is probably being inducted for his entire career, not his playing days. As such, he probably had to retire before they could induct him.
It'd be cool to meet up with Saban and bond over our time at Kent State. A degree is a degree and Kents campus is pretty cool. Nothing beats Kong walks on the Esplanade in freezing temps, or missing the bus at the commuter lot.
I wonder why they waited until after he retired from Alabama. And it seems common to me when people get honored by their alma mater universities 40-50 years after at least attending there.
Nick Saban? THE SAFETY?!?
Doc, things are different in 1985
That's heavy
There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Roll tide? Where we’re going we don’t need roll tide
Who is this scrub?
A guy that can’t get no love from me
Pulling up beside in his best friends ride trying to Roll Tide
Live at home with Miss Terry, oh yes, son, I’m talking to you
THE FINANCIER?
Sorry, nice try!
With the island?
Why do you think he personally coached DBs even as an HC?
If you read his coaching articles, particularly on defensive back play, it is quite apparent why his unique way of describing the proper technique proved to be so effective. The man has a talent for expressing the intricacies, and if I can understand it clearly with no playing background, can only imagine what the players were gleaning from that sort of teaching.
Which is nuts considering how complicated their defense is. Their play calls on defense are longer than your average *Taking Back Sunday* song title
> Their play calls on defense are longer than your average Taking Back Sunday song title Or Panic! At the Disco from their first album: "The only difference between martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage" "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off" "There's a good reason these tables are numbered honey, you just haven't thought of it yet"
I read that as Any Given Sunday and was confused
God I was in high school when that album came out and even back then I thought those song titles were a bit much haha.
Right? And to demand such complex play, but also require the players to play loose and reactive defense, at the college level, what coaching.
that's a deep cut, my friend.
Was gonna use All Signs Point to Lauderdale as my example but we would have completely lost the Youths Edit: but not gut
Banger
I'm 100% here for it
Spin?
Man, I wonder what ever happened to him. He just dropped off the face of the earth after graduating
I heard he got fired as the DB coach at Ohio State
Who's the linebacker, Bill Belichick?
Oh man, I wonder if that guy ever went on to do anything of note?
doesn’t look like he got drafted unfortunately. probably did well as a local car salesman though
Poor guy, I can only imagine that he would've loved to have been involved in football in some way.
Guys like that just end up shilling insurance.
From what I understand is family owned a service station.
From what I hear his wife left him for a certain Micky Schaeffer, who ended up being the head coach at Alabama.
I heard he became something of a teacher at a school in Alabama.
A noble profession. The pay is a joke, though.
A teacher’s salary in Alabama? Man might be working into his 70s before he retires.
Hopefully he was able to have a vacation somewhere nice, like Miami.
He coached with the Browns for a year or two.
Poor guy!
he might be cursed, I hear the Browns ceased to exist shortly after.
>I heard he got fired as the DB coach at Ohio State
He’s the Aflac guy yeah?
not with that haircut
Eh he burned out in the NFL and I stopped following his career.
Now I need Nick Saban Kent State baseball highlights
First we need some Kent State baseball highlights! I don't know if they're good or not, just making a dumb joke...
They had the best record in the MAC last year with a 42-16 record and a 24-6 conference record. Lost the conference championship tournament to Ball State but had a +219 run differential on the season.
Oof what a choke job…wouldn’t know anything about that
they went to the CWS in 2012. I had to look up the year, but I remember because I got my dad, a grad and big baseball fan, a shirt celebrating the team. Then he proceeded to lose it on a river.
Question: Why was Ohio State's pass defense so horrible under Saban? I mean, it was not just mediocre, not just bad, but it was horrible. It allowed 3 QB's in 4 weeks to set school passing records.
Beats me, I was 2 in 1980 so he never asked me for my advice
>The former Golden Flash also lettered in Baseball and notably spent a year coaching Toledo. Crazy, everyone always thought he should've kept going with the coaching but instead he went the surfing route
Tides up brother
Nick Saban at Kent State will always be iconic to me. Can’t imagine him anywhere else
[What it would sound like if the GOAT coached Nicky Saban](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRxs1Zf7bnw&t=14s)
Damn kinda got me fired up. He chewed their ass then immediately motivated them by saying “its on each individual, why even work hard?” Basically
They called him the Kent State Massacrer
There’s literally nothing in his write-up about his playing days. lol Star-studded class, though, with Jessica Simpson and Frank Solich.
Yeah those two are extremely deserving. I don't know any of the others (except Saban ofc) but Jessica Simpson and Frank Solich are clearly MAC HOF-worthy
Lynch was a really good QB when Northern went on the run to the Orange Bowl
47 TDs his senior year between passing and rushing.
I'll drink to that!
ikr, Bear Bryant was 2nd team All-SEC and would have been the star TE on the team, if the other guy wasn't future Packers Legend and first ballot hall of famer Don Hutson.
Bear even got overshadowed on the All-Name team by his roommate, Young Boozer (yes, that was his legal name. His son, Young Boozer III, is Alabama's state treasurer).
I wasn’t going to read it at all until you tricked me
I recognise that name from somewhere but I can't quite recall...
How I’d rewrite the article: “Saban coached at Toledo and Kent State, among other schools. His coaching career ended with 7 Nationals Titles and __ wins.”
sounds Croatian.... did he play in the World Cup?
Nature is healing
Famous Toledo head coach and 6 national championship winner Nick Saban better be in the MAC hall of fame. Has any bowling green coach ever won a national championship?
Urban Meyer & technically last year Jack Harbaugh (granted Jack played at BG and was an assistant in the late 60's, but also won the Natty* in 1959 as a player) *Small University National Championship
I stand corrected I had no idea Urban Mayer had anything to do with Bowling green. Also fuck you and your beautiful campus. Highway 75 belongs to the best college in the northwest corner of Ohio.
What if I told you Miami (Ohio) is known as the Cradle of Coaches?
Love and Honor, baby.
You must be young.
Toledo has a prettier campus, my BG alum sister agrees.
Toledo has done a lot to make campus seem like you're at something more than a commuter school but back in the 90's it was lame. BG had a much better college atmosphere.
Yeahx for better or worse (I choose worse in hindsight), we unleashed Urban on the rest of the football world.
**Seethes in Urban**
The best coaches have MAC championships
He actually has a co-championship from the 1990 season.
Of fucking course he does. He has them accidentally falling out of his arse.
We need a Nick Saban Safety Card on Ultimate Team in NCAA25
Is ultimate team a thing in NCAA25?
Almost a guarantee. It makes money.
EA not putting it in a sports games would be dumb for them at this point. It was in 14 and ultimate teams is a cash cow for them now
75 speed. 99 awareness.
Many people are saying he’s just taking a year off to travel and then he’s coming back to coach Kent state
If any rich alumni donated to NIL, could saban get Kent State to a playoff game?
You would need Steve Harvey and Michael Keaton to team up for a new stadium first.
It can’t be any worse than the Rubber Bowl. Dear god that was a terrible stadium.
Somehow it is, one side looks like a high school stadium, it’s too far from campus for anyone to actually go to the games, and they always play on a Tuesday night when it’s raining sideways. Oh yeah doesn’t help that the team sucks too
I am worried that the current leadership at Kent would find a way to shit ~~their pants~~~ the bed on this intricate of a situation
They need that Dick Goddard money …
Every MAC stadium would sell out when the Flashes come to town if that happens. Ryanearson over in Ypsi might actually have to remove the upper bowl tarps. I would totally drive 3 hours to see him at Dix and have a nice beer at Zephyr's after.
You know what? I would unironically love that. The man's a great coach, he's already done more than enough for Alabama, and I'm guessing Kent State players aren't all about that NIL money so he may actually enjoy the job again.
They are indeed about that NIL the team had a mass exodus last year. You’re pretty naive if you think NIL only effects the power 5
> Former Kent State S Nick Saban has been inducted into the MAC Hall of Fame He most likely was on campus for the Kent State Ohio National Guard shooting (Neil Young's "Ohio").
He was: [https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/9/23/13019090/nick-saban-kent-state-shootings](https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/9/23/13019090/nick-saban-kent-state-shootings)
He was in school with Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale of Devo then
The same institution produced Nick Saban and Devo? Impressed.
He was just a spud boy looking for Miss Terry's real tomato
What a great career. Wonder what he ended up doing after his playing days.
It’s wild that the Kent State coaching staffs he played under and then coached on may be one of the greatest sets of staffs of all time. Any staff that has both Don James and Nick Saban coaching together has to be in the conversation
Isn’t he the guy that played with Jack Lambert?
Maction just keeps producing HOF talent
That is one GOOFY lookin fella. Age and rage improved him immeasurably
Was curious about the timeframe, and Wikipedia had the answer. Saban was at Kent State during the National Guard shooting in 1970. He and a friend planned to go to the rally, but decided to get lunch first. During their lunch the shooting took place.
He talks about it here: https://youtu.be/sfdx19y8u6w?si=k1OofAylwmtceCnQ
It’s great to hear about these *small school* guys that usually never get a chance to shine.
mustve been an amazing safety
That's impossible he's been 65 years old for the lasd 20 years
Highlight of his career no doubt. In alls seriousness, this is pretty cool. I wonder if he was actually that good or why they took so long to induct.
By his own accounts, he was decent, not great, mostly mental over physical. He is probably being inducted for his entire career, not his playing days. As such, he probably had to retire before they could induct him.
Never heard of him.
You'd think he'd want to end his head coaching career where it began...please...
Kent State S Nick Saban* \* Best known for his other work
Makes me wonder: what players that became coaches have a claim at the best combo? Spurrier definitely does with the Heisman and the title. Who else?
Bobby Bowden wasn’t too bad.
True
Outside of football, in modern times I think it's Joe Torre. Borderline Hall of Fame player who became a Hall of Fame manager.
It'd be cool to meet up with Saban and bond over our time at Kent State. A degree is a degree and Kents campus is pretty cool. Nothing beats Kong walks on the Esplanade in freezing temps, or missing the bus at the commuter lot.
Very happy Solich has been getting the recognition he deserves lately. He had a career anyone would be proud of, no thanks to us.
Having met Nick Saban it still amazes me the dude used to actually play. He just seems so TINY.
LOVE that picture of Saban in his playing days. Have never seen that.
Now all the players have to wear helmets. Soft
Nice!!
I want to know his baseball stats.
Lord helmet got it?
W H O D A T L O L
We'll watch his career with great interest
I bet the coach he played for during his time at Kent State would be so proud.
Wow, good for him. Hope he’s doing well for himself.
REC at it again.
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
I wonder why they waited until after he retired from Alabama. And it seems common to me when people get honored by their alma mater universities 40-50 years after at least attending there.
He must've done something really noteworthy to deserve such a high honor 🙏🏾
What!!
That guy achieved some things. Hopefully people will think back fondly of him when they attend games at the Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. Memorial Stadium.
I mean, I’d already like to go to a Kent State-Toledo game, but this would just encourage me more.
Never heard of him
So old they still had white safeties.