Forbes magazine noted Saban’s total control of the football program
At Alabama, Paul “Bear” Bryant nike kobe 6 will forever be school’s and state’s highest deity. But Saban, in his fifth year as the Crimson Tide’s coach, has taken a place at his right hand, winning better than 80% of the time and his program spitting out those eight-figure profits. His current team, at 11-1, will meet LSU in the BCS’ Jan. 9 championship game in New Orleans.
Three years ago, Forbes magazine noted Saban’s total control of the football program – from recruiting to coaching to business administration to public relations – and proclaimed him the most powerful coach in U.S. sports.
Midkiff, a member of the Alabama faculty since 1986 and current president of its faculty senate, is cautious. “We’re obviously very fertile soil for potential abuse,” he says of the statewide obsession with football. But he says he’s mostly satisfied there are no chain-of-command issues.”
Young recalls conversations with his late friend, John Ryan, when Ryan was the president at Indiana University and the mercurial Knight – as famous for his fits of temper as his high win count and three national lebron 8 ps championships – was the Hoosiers’ basketball coach in the 1980s.
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