Saban doing what he loves best – coaching

Nick Saban was truly in his element. He was in an enormous room with hundreds of people who speak his language, who share his passion. He was with coaches. Fraternity brothers, of a sort. One thing to remember about the Alabama coach, he’s something of a football nerd. That’s meant in nothing but the most positive manner. When Saban stood in front of an overhead projector, with something like “Base Under 06 Auto Tilt Zombie ‘Play It’” on the screen, he was doing what he loves best. He was coaching, bringing a preacher’s passion to the moment. He was coaching the coaches. He was neck deep in a soup of X’s and O’s and absolutely reveling in it. Why, he even admitted at the All-Star Sports Week coaching clinic Thursday morning if he had his druthers he’d be the defensive secondary coach at the University of Alabama. It’s just that, well, the head coaching job at the University of Alabama pays better. [More]

Where are college football’s mega-stadiums?

Michigan has expanded The Big House, pushing its seating capacity ahead of Penn State’s home field and making it the biggest football stadium in America again. Let’s take a look at the 10 biggest football venues (subject to change at any time when some school’s boosters and alums get jealous): 5. Bryant-Denny Stadium — 101,000 The Alabama Crimson Tide have sold out every home game since 1988, which is insane because, if memory holds, they were coached during that period by Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione and Mike Shula. In 2006 seating in the north end zone was expanded, and stadium capacity will grow to 102,500 this season with an upper-deck expansion in the south end zone. [More]

Recruiting: Tight end going from Maroon Tide to Crimson Tide

Tight end Malcolm Faciane committed to Alabama in April. And he’s apparently not budging. “I’m pretty firm on that and I’m going to stick with that,” Faciane said. “I’ve always really liked that school. I’m a big fan of Coach Nick Saban. When I went over there, I found out they have a really good engineering program and that’s what I want to major in. So I felt they would be the best fit for me.” Picayune coach Dodd Lee was attending a coaches’ clinic at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi chatting with a University of Alabama coach. “I told him we might have a player who might can play in the SEC,” Lee said. “He asked me who is it and how big is he and then asked me to send him some film. Other than Southern (Miss), nobody was recruiting him at the time. I sent them film on Monday and they turned around and offered him on Thursday.” [More]

2010′s Best SEC Games – No. 5 Alabama at LSU

This could be for the SEC West title. But even if it’s not and even if the Nick Saban returning to the place he coached has gotten old, they haven’t forgotten in Baton Rouge. This is a grudge match, pure and simple and the Tiger fans would like nothing better than to lay one on their old coach. You want to talk about a home-field disadvantage? LSU beat Alabama in Baton Rouge in 1969, then didn’t beat the Tide again in Tiger Stadium until 2000. During that stretch, LSU went 0-14-1 against Alabama at home. [More]

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