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Nick Saban

Nick Saban
Nick Saban 09 Practice.jpg
Saban at an Alabama practice in 2009
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Alabama
Conference SEC
Record 114–19
Annual salary US$6.9 million
Biographical details
Born (1951-10-31) October 31, 1951 (age 65)
Fairmont, West Virginia
Playing career
1970–1972 Kent State
Position(s) Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973–1974 Kent State (GA)
1975–1976 Kent State (LB)
1977 Syracuse (OLB)
1978–1979 West Virginia (DB)
1980–1981 Ohio State (DB)
1982 Navy (DB)
1983–1987 Michigan State (DC/DB)
1988–1989 Houston Oilers (DB)
1990 Toledo
1991–1994 Cleveland Browns (DC)
1995–1999 Michigan State
2000–2004 LSU
2005–2006 Miami Dolphins
2007–present Alabama
Head coaching record
Overall 205–61–1 (college)
15–17 (NFL)
Bowls 11–9
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
5 National (2003, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015)
1 MAC (1990)
7 SEC (2001, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2014–2016)
10 SEC Western Division (2001–2003, 2008, 2009, 2012–2016)
Awards
2× AP National Coach of the Year (2003, 2008)
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2003)
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2003, 2008)
Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2008)
Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2008)
Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award (2008)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (2008)
Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award (2010)
Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2014)
SEC Coach of the Year (2003, 2008, 2009, 2016)

Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. (/sbən/; born October 31, 1951) is an American football coach who has been the head football coach at the University of Alabama since 2007. 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 initial 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 time. He appeared on the September 1, 2008, cover of Forbes magazine as "The Most Powerful Coach in Sports". Saban's career record as a college head coach is 205–61–1.

Saban led the LSU Tigers to the BCS National Championship in 2003 and the Alabama Crimson Tide to BCS and AP national championships in 2009, 2011, 2012, and the College Football Playoff championship in 2015. He became the first coach in college football history to win a national championship with two different Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936. Saban and Bear Bryant are the only coaches to win an SEC championship at two different schools. In May 2013, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.


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