Everyone knows how great of a football coach [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] is, but it’s the man he is off the field that many don’t know. At post-game press conferences, Coach Saban might seem angry and annoyed with members of the media, but he’s known for caring very deeply about his coaching staff and his players. The things he has done to alter not only the football team but the entire University of Alabama campus can not be understated.
There is a reason he’s been able to maintain great relationships amongst rival coaches such as Kirby Smart and Lane Kiffin, and it’s because it goes deeper than football.
Kirk Herbstreit is one of the leading voices in college football as one of the main hosts for ESPN’s College GameDay, but he also played at Ohio State and understands everything the football life entails. Herbstreit has covered Saban for a long time now, and he recently shared that he is his favorite coach to cover.
Herbstreit gets emotional when talking about Saban and says, “He is somebody I have always really admired. I’m an old school kind of disciplinarian myself so I am drawn to him… I see him as a friend, I see him as a guy I can talk to. If I am having an issue in my life he is one of the first people I would probably call because how much his words mean to me. He’s not always going to tell you what you want to hear, but he will tell you what he really thinks.”
"He's probably my favorite coach that I've ever covered." – @KirkHerbstreit on @AlabamaFTBL head coach Nick Saban."
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