The gospel according to Nick Saban: a video essay

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Күн бұрын

From the time he took the job (controversially) in 2007 to his retirement in 2024, Nick Saban transformed the Alabama Crimson Tide into the most dominant force in the history of college football. His teams won eight SEC titles to go with six national titles--he coached Heisman winners like Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry, and Pro Bowlers like Julio Jones and Marcell Dareus. But in an era of NIL and scholarship limits, how did he pull it all off?
The answer lies in the story of his infamous Process--the message he's been preaching for years.
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@macfather8426 10 ай бұрын

Turn this on and literally 5 minutes in Saban retires, what are the chances

@mashonem 3 ай бұрын

I’m blaming you for this

@christianwilliams9203 3 ай бұрын

Why did you do this to Bama

@macfather8426 3 ай бұрын

@@christianwilliams9203 Kentucky fan 😌

@cashworth1444 3 ай бұрын

i'm here now and my stomach is still turning at the thought of him being gone

@djLagwayEnjoyer 3 ай бұрын

@@cashworth1444good fuck the tide. Now you’ll experience the same pain that us Florida fans have felt ever since urban retired. Enjoy the ride brother

@jeffgumawid7554 2 ай бұрын

By 19:52, My head was like "Yo, Sir Alex Ferguson was that exact kind of coach" And you went ahead and compared Nick Saban to the EPL legend. 🤯 I would say, they pretty much had parallel careers. Dominating early, adapting through the times, and leave the game perfectly timed to not have downfalls that will severely tarnish their legacy

@GoudaNuff_88 2 ай бұрын

Moral of the story: You can't control the outcome, but you can control your input.

@Justsomeguy19699 3 ай бұрын

These ideas extend far beyond football. Thanks for putting this video together.

@danielgilliland8066 2 жыл бұрын

Love it. Just in time for CFB season... Fantastic work!

@wtp7631 3 ай бұрын

Imagine that dealership though.

@Loopy_Yeti 2 ай бұрын

He actually does own dealerships, Ferrari dealerships actually

@jessybrown3008 23 күн бұрын

@@Loopy_Yeti a Mercedes dealership as well

@OG_Loudermilk 2 ай бұрын

Do another or an update please ! This was awesome, dude is the goat and I’m not even a Bama fan

@educationalempowerment8610 3 ай бұрын

Very good presentation of Saban’s contribution to the game and the game of life. Well done!

@reggie3715 3 ай бұрын

This is a great video for younger open minds.

@dawsondavis1744 11 ай бұрын

Great work

@joelhopkins4352 4 ай бұрын

Great video- coming from a TN fan who often wishes he was an Alabama fan.

@CrackedShells 3 ай бұрын

Fraud

@brooksphillips2234 Ай бұрын

Hey yall got us this year!

@joelhopkins4352 Ай бұрын

@@brooksphillips2234 true and don’t get me wrong I’m proud of that, but I wish I couldn’t lived through a Saban-like era with my team. I remind my Alabama friends how jealous I am of their last 18ish years all the time.

@Bwood22 3 ай бұрын

Great video. You talked alot about how he manages the program and the game tactically. But that's because he's simply a football mastermind. But "The Process" is really more about you as an individual than it is about football at all. It's about your mindset. It's about your willingness to give effort, have the mental toughness to execute and do your job consistently at a high level regardless of the external factors that are beyond your control, and have the discipline to do your job the right way every time all the time. Because none of those things require any ability. The scoreboard doesn't matter, what happened on the last play doesn't matter. Be where your feet are right now, because the next play is the most important play of the game, so that's where all of your focus needs to be. Trust the process.

@brooksphillips2234 2 ай бұрын

Have you ever heard where he got the process from?

@brooksphillips2234 Ай бұрын

Saban got the process from a professor at Michigan State named Lionel Rosen! The rest is history!

@mysteryboy2751 4 ай бұрын

I love how the saban verses are based on real verses 😂

@tophatninja 10 ай бұрын

I will miss you nick saban ……. Roll tide

@carloszugzwang6267 9 ай бұрын

BY PAYING THE MOST UNDER THE TABLE BEFORE NIL YOU SIMPS 😂

@sadpotato5803 5 ай бұрын

Every program did it cream puff, get over it, there’s a reason why NIL started, because they couldn’t stop teams from paying players, so shut up and learn your shit

@AndyNilson Жыл бұрын

Good work

@Jbsutt 3 ай бұрын

Ive never been able to make a bama fan see that "process thinking" (Sabans The Process) is a concept thats centuries old. One literally said to me "They havent had football for centuries!!!"

@MrGoodeats 2 ай бұрын

yeah its pretty simple stuff actually lol. you could learn it at an AA meeting!

@reyorocio7446 3 ай бұрын

Great video what a breakdown !

@phillipwombacher9635 3 ай бұрын

he learned it from watching tom osborn at nebraska who had a process too

@brooksphillips2234 2 ай бұрын

Saban got the process from Lionel Rosen who was a psychiatry professor at Michigan State.

@th3wizrd 3 ай бұрын

awesome video man

@jessybrown3008 23 күн бұрын

9:03 not the poison album 😂😂😂

@tylerm231 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@shuaniishaun 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video 💯🔥

@2tyford 3 ай бұрын

Anybody know the font in the thumbnail?

@brysonking56 3 ай бұрын

Amazing video

@mktf5582 10 ай бұрын

Please do best Football managers of all time = Alex Ferguson/Bob Paisley/Jose Mourinho/Carlo Ancelotti.

@phillipwombacher9635 3 ай бұрын

im hoping matt rhule can be for nebraska what saban was for alabama bringing a historically dominant program back from the dead

@brooksphillips2234 2 ай бұрын

🐐 🐐 🐐

@lewallfish 3 ай бұрын

I can appreciate greatness, but as an LSU fan, Fuck Bama

@savagetigerfbfan6673 2 ай бұрын

Exactly i love Nick Saban he’s a great man and the greatest football coach ever but I am not sad to see Alabama fall back to where they were before Saban got there.

@dysflexxia8204 4 ай бұрын

That and bama basically gave NIL deals before everyone else could 😂😭💀Love the video keep up the good work 🤘🏾

@yourfavoritelawnguy2722 4 ай бұрын

you got receipts? or the same old claims that never amount to shit. We were just on probation and nearly was given the death penalty right before he showed up, they were not cheating.

@BetaNurse68 4 ай бұрын

@@yourfavoritelawnguy2722I mean aside from the mark barron texts where he has to repay money after signing with a competing agency. Ha-ha Clinton dix in violation of “team rules” after they had just put Corey harris on leave for giving a “loan” to dix and Harris’s ties to an nfl agent and violated compliance. The school itself concluded this. Bo Davis got a two year show cause for violating recruiting rules meeting with recruits organized by boosters. Like loook all the big teams did shady stuff and found ways to pay players but stop trying to deny Alabama was a huge leader in it.

@Skers91 3 ай бұрын

What about the 11 years before nil even started

@camjo13 3 ай бұрын

Citation needed.

@douglaspurcell7506 3 ай бұрын

@yourfavoritelawnguy2722 exactly. Everyone hated us. If we had been cheating you can bet your ass it would have come out. All talk from salty losers

@bothompson-ov6ju 6 ай бұрын

Kinda weird that none of his quarterbacks really had NFL careers that could be considered note worthy Although the jury is still out on Tua, and Hurts

@studentofthegame 6 ай бұрын

not that weird when you think of how run-dominant his early offenses were. not many top QBs want to come to Alabama to hand the ball to TJ Yeldon 30 times

@yourfavoritelawnguy2722 4 ай бұрын

up until Jalen Hurts we where run first, worry about who the game manager is later team. It was all Defense and Running the Rock.

@King_Immanuel 3 ай бұрын

I mean he’s had 3 QBs taken in the first round in the past 5 years plus Hurts in the second. He’s certainly put out good QB prospects

@KornPop96 3 ай бұрын

I will be forever happy that St. Nick lost the last time he played at Neyland. GB🍊!

@RT22-pb2pp 2 ай бұрын

HUGE bama fan here HUGE Saban fan, drop the St. Nick I lie nick satan, the grim reaper who snatches life out of opposing teams. Saint my ass, this guy was bigger killer than any bundy dahmer or any of them. He was a serial killer, killed more coaches and programs than any mob hit man LOL

@MrGoodeats 2 ай бұрын

I was loving the video up until 20:08 when you started trying to make a soccer analogy. why are you bringing that sport into this. know your audience.

@studentofthegame 2 ай бұрын

I think my audience can understand more than one sport

@MrGoodeats 2 ай бұрын

@@studentofthegame that's not the point. The point is that it's irrelevant to 99% of your audience. most people who watch football know and care very little about soccer.

@jimboshrump 2 ай бұрын

Stole this theme from that chapter podcast...

@choncha23 3 ай бұрын

I think I can say Nick is one of the best coaches but I would hold him for running away as the NIL and playoff expansion Great coach, just ran away when it got tough.

@studentofthegame 3 ай бұрын

he’s 72 years old

@fumihiro8564 2 ай бұрын

They had the best recruiting class and his team was in the Playoffs in his last year lmao