Nick Saban
Nick Saban
Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Alabama, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other universities: Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Toledo. His eight-year contract totaling US$32 million made him one of the highest paid football coaches, professional or collegiate, in the United States at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth31 October 1951
CityFairmont, WV
CountryUnited States of America
We would like to have all of our players here.
We're trying to get a deal that would satisfy him as well as work for us.
We're not making any changes at that position right now. This should not be an issue. We don't want it to be an issue. I know y'all are going to try to make it an issue.
We had a chance to stop them at the end of the game and they bang us with a big play right off the bat, ... Those things are disappointing. I was very proud, though, of the way our players fought back in the game.
While we do this, from a player's perspective it would be advantageous if we got fan support.
We were recruiting a player who had a coach from another school using the NFL as a negative about our program, ... The player said to him -- and I'm not making this up -- 'If the coach of your school is so good, why aren't they trying to hire him in the NFL?'
When other players think it's not acceptable by their peers how they go about what they do, they will change more readily. If they don't change then, then maybe they are the wrong guys.
We will establish a plan for it and I'm sure that he will make a commitment to the plan and do everything that he can to do it.
There are a lot of questions about the offensive line, and we're going to continue to work some different players in different spots to get the best combination of what we can do,
The Raiders had a hard time with him. He wrecked the game, creating two turnovers that really iced the game. He's a fantastic player.
We've obviously started our research in terms of what the options are going to be for us. One of the goals that we have is to develop the players we have so somebody can be a starter for our organization in the future, or to bring somebody to the organization that has the potential to be a future starter relative to our situation.
It is what it is. So we can talk about 39 touchdowns or we can talk about however many fumbles. Half empty, half full.
It's more difficult than it's ever been. It's possible, but I think it's a little less probable than maybe it was 20 years ago.
It's not really true to (the Bears) character and nature in the past to do that (during an exhibition game), ... But I thought our staff did an outstanding job with adapting in the game. That's probably why we had more success in the second and third quarters than we did in the beginning of the game.