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McElwain credits Saban for career boost

Gainesville Sun | December 3, 2015

Related Topics: Pat Hill, Offensive coordinator, Nick Saban, List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches, Jim McElwain

- Nick Saban's search for a new offensive coordinator in 2008 eventually led him to Fresno State, where head coach Pat Hill, who had coached with Saban in the NFL, recommended he give his relatively unknown coordinator a call.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban, left, stands with then-offensive coordinator Jim McElwain in January 2012. The two will be at the Georgia Dome on Saturday, but this time on opposite sidelines.

The Tuscaloosa News

Saban did. But his conversation with Jim McElwain apparently was brief.

“I had never met him,” McElwain said.

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