Nick Saban
Actor, American football head coach
1951 –
Who is Nick Saban?
Nicholas Lou "Nick" Saban, Jr. is an American college football coach and the current head football coach of the University of Alabama, a position he has held since the 2007 season. 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 eight-year contract totaling US$32 million made him one of the highest paid football coaches, professional or college, 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 165–57-1.
Saban led the LSU Tigers to the BCS National Championship in 2003 and the Alabama Crimson Tide to BCS and AP national championships in the 2009, 2011 and 2012 seasons, making him the first coach in college football history to win a national championship with two different Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Saban and Bear Bryant are the only coaches to win an SEC championship at two different schools.
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- Born
- Oct 31, 1951
Fairmont - Also known as
- Nicholas Lou Saban
- Parents
- Spouses
- Terry Saban
(1971/12/18 - )
- Terry Saban
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Croatian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Kent State University
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on July 23, 2013
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