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Things That Make Nick Saban Different Make Him Successful

By: Larry Burton

There are so many coaches that seek to imitate Nick Saban now that it’s hard to say anything he does is different. But Saban pioneered some differences between him and other coaches that made him successful. Here are a few.

Tell The Truth – No coach may have been more ridiculed than Saban for saying while head coach of the Miami Dolphins that he wasn’t leaving to be the head coach at Alabama. In Saban’s defense, it was his sense of honor to finish what he started that made him say that and in his own defense again, he was telling the truth, sort of.