Nick Saban has said he hates losing more than he loves winning. As he told former LSU player, Marcus Spears in a moment of offseason candor, he also never tires of winning. Nick Saban did not have to build a championship culture for Alabama football. Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Paul Bryant and Gene Stallings did that over the span of many decades.
Nick had to rebuild a program that treasured its championship legacy but had forgotten how to achieve it. What Nick Saban has rebuilt in Tuscaloosa has exceeded past glories and made Alabama football the top program in college football history.