Dynasty Makers: Saban Follows Path of HBCU Legends
B y: Dr. Kenyatta J. Cavil and Bryan Fulford When the clock hit 0:00 in the last quarter of the college football playoff’s national championship game, Alabama head coach Nick Saban won his sixth national championship at the school (seventh overall) in his 14th season in Tuscaloosa becoming in many eyes the greatest college football coach of the modern era, and possibly the history of college football. Does this history include all college football programs (i.e. historically black college programs)? More on that later. The latter is a stretch, especially to those that still may call him the second greatest coach at Alabama, but if you consider the last 13 seasons, Saban has done something that very few have accomplished before, built a dynasty at one school so quickly into his years at the school. In those years, he has amassed a 163-17 (.906) overall record, 94-11 (.895) record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) with seven SEC championships, and a 13-5 postseason record. His team