Alabama coach Nick Saban talks about Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio during a Cotton Bowl news conference Dec. 30, 2015. By Joe Rexrode, DFP.
"He sure hasn't disappointed anybody," Saban says of Dantonio as they prepare to meet in College Football Playoff
DALLAS -- Back when Mark Hollis was leading the search for Michigan State's next football coach in the fall of 2006, he placed a call to Nick Saban.
Saban, then head coach of the Miami Dolphins -- soon to become head coach at Alabama -- gave an endorsement to his former assistant at MSU, Mark Dantonio.