Saban’s Statue May Not Be Ready Until Mid-Season
A statue of Alabama football coach Nick Saban might not be ready in time for the Sept.4 opener against San Jose State. Thad Turnipseed, the Crimson Tide’s director of athletic facilities, said the unveiling might have to wait until midseason to get it just right. The statue will honor Saban for the program’s latest national [...]
Alabama gets another leg up on Auburn
Saban is getting a statue in August to bronze his place in the school’s history as the latest head coach of a national championship team, but the real monument to Alabama football stands directly behind. Bryant-Denny stands taller than ever, physically, aesthetically and psychologically, as its latest expansion to 101,070 seats wraps up. The grand [...]
Highest paid college football coaches
Nick Saban – Alabama Whether you like Saban as a person or not, the one thing we can all agree on is that he is one of the best college football coaches in the nation. His leadership helped create a quick turnaround at Alabama and helped them end the national championship drought last season. As [...]
Alabama Tops In The SEC
Every summer, I rate the programs of the SEC based on a number of criteria including head coach, coaching staffs, facilities, fan support, revenue, recruiting and some other intangibles. One thing that makes this difficult is the seventh- or eighth-place teams probably rank in the top 35 in America. That’s how good the SEC is [...]
Football stadium expansion on schedule
The expansion project at Bryant-Denny Stadium has remained on schedule and has moved beyond structural work and more into finer details, University of Alabama Director of Athletics Mal Moore said Thursday at The ARC of Tuscaloosa Annual Charity Golf Tournament. “I think everything is on schedule, particularly the stadium,” Moore told tidesportsextra.com. “I was over [...]
2010 ESPY Nomination List Is Out
The 2010 ESPY nomination list is out and Alabama is well represented with the following nominations: For BEST TEAM: Alabama Football Won its first national championship since 1992. Earned its eighth major poll championship after going 14-0, with 12 games decided by more than a touchdown. Won BCS championship with 37-21 win over Texas. For [...]
Saban speaks about family, football and integrity
If there’s a successor to the late John Wooden as America’s greatest college coach, it may be Saban—who has won national titles at two schools, Alabama last season and LSU in 2003, separating himself from everyone else in the football business since the 1930s. On the day Wooden died, Saban discussed his reputation, his coaching [...]
Outspoken, persistent, intense: Jeremy Pruitt a good fit for Bama’s staff
As if it weren’t already a highly intense staff with Coaches Saban, Smart, Sunseri, Cochran, et al, and now they’ve gone and added Pruitt. Without a doubt, there is not another staff as knowledgeable and passionate about football anywhere in college football. If anyone differs with that opinion, I’d more than like to hear an [...]
‘I’ve mellowed a lot,’ says Saban
On the recent day that a great basketball coach died, a great football coach sat down for an extraordinary interview with the Sporting News. Alabama coach Nick Saban talked about how the very first book he read about coaching was written by John Wooden, the late, legendary UCLA coach. Sporting News: A lot of people [...]
Alabama 2011 football recruiting class
Nick Saban has helped take Alabama football recruiting to new heights. Depending on which recruiting service you quote (and they all have some good qualities,) the Crimson Tide staff has three straight years of top 3 recruiting classes in the team rankings with a great chance at a fourth. Some have had Alabama number one [...]
Athletic budgets on the rise
The University of Alabama is one of 10 schools projected to exceed $250 million in its athletic budget by the year 2020, based on figures released last week in a report by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The report described the growing disparity between the nation’s elite athletic programs and the majority, which operate [...]
Saban pays tribute to Nico Johnson’s mom at funeral
Mamie Johnson was known as a sports enthusiast and a Crimson Tide fan. Yesterday, one of the biggest names in college sports – and especially Alabama sports – Nick Saban, paid tribute to her at her funeral. “Miss Mamie made me promise to make sure he [Nico] did the things he needed to do to [...]
