“Call no man happy until he is dead,” - Athenian statesman Solon, to King Croesus of Lycia, 560 BCE
Nick Saban is unwilling to speak of his legacy. For a man that sees many more productive years on the sideline, that is reasonable. And, for we outside observers, it is hard to adjudge the legacy of a man for whom it is still being written.
However, with Monday night’s 26-23 victory over Georgia, Nicholas Lou Saban, 66, has carved out an epithet that seemed nigh-impossible, indeed blasphemous, four decades ago: He has become the best to ever coach at the major college level.