Nick Saban spoke to the Alabama Football Coaches Association (AFCA) recently and his comments about the importance of relationships between players and coaches got considerable attention on Twitter. A video of some of those comments is included near the end of this post.
Before diving into what Nick Saban said, a quick review of Nick Saban as a master communicator. Saban is a wordsmith. The same discipline he teaches Alabama football players is applied to all his public utterances. There is a purpose behind everything he says.
When he spoke to the AFCA coaches, his purpose was to educate, to enlighten, to stress important tools in leading young men.