There’s really nothing you can say about the Alabama football program that hasn’t already been said. They are unbelievably talented year-in and year-out, but what makes Nick Saban the greatest coach of the modern era and possibly in the history of college football is his ability to motivate.
The end of almost every great college football dynasty comes when the players start to buy into their own hype. Urban Meyer and Pete Carroll are two of the best college football coaches in recent history, but those Florida and USC teams each had a tendency to play to their competition.