Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban has won three national championships in four years while building college football's most dominant program. Given his great success with the team and his endless pursuit for perfection. The 62-year-old is almost certainly known most for is his relentless micro managing, which goes along for his extreme passion for the game. A lot of onlookers, players, and even rival coaches seem to think Saban is,” Hard” on his players, but if you were to ask them they would agree it is all in good nature. It certainly would be unfair to say that Saban is being especially rough on his players because behind the scenes of the practice field coach Saban expects the same amount of professionalism, and pride out of himself and his coaching staff. Coach Saban’s biggest belief is that to be successful as a unit, as a team everyone must buy in. When we talk about, “Buying in” in this case as a football…show more content… Saban told 60 minutes that if he feels strongly about a prospect, he will watch every single play of that athlete’s high school game tape even practice tape. Even in the times Coach should be relaxing he’s working either on current players, or watching endless film of future Alabama prospects. Coach also touched on the impact Saban's father had on him when he was raised in a small West Virginia mining town. Saban spent many of his childhood days running up a steep hill that ran along the sides of the fields—now named for his father, Nick Sr.—he played on as a Pop Warner player having some success in his athletics. Saban had to wash cars from the age of 11 with his father at the local service station he owned; If it was not done perfectly, he would have to wash the entire car over again. Coach Saban especially hated washing black, and blue cars because they were the worst about showing streaks, and marks. That is where Saban's attention to detail comes
