1968 MONONGAH HIGH QUARTERBACK RETIRES FROM COACHING

 

Nick Saban, 72, retires from coaching


Monongah High’s 1968 state championship team quarterback Nick Saban is retiring at the age of 72.


He has been head coach at Alabama for 17 years and won 201 games, only 31 less than Paul Bear Bryant won at Alabama. 


2 coaches & 433 victories awesome. Probably no other college can make that statement in football.


Brother, as those from Marion County still call him (a nickname his older sister, later a teacher in Monongah, gave him when he was born), won 11 SEC titles for Alabama.


Never had a losing season in his 28-year coaching career. Oh, brother!


He had two .500 seasons at Michigan State. That’s as “bad” as it got for Brother.


The 24 seasons between Bryan and Saban were NOT as glorious for Alabama. Coaching is the critical ingredient for success.


Nick was 292-71-1 as a college head coach, including a national title at LSU.


He had twice as many national titles are any other coach during his reign.


Vegas immediately increased the odds of winning the 2004 season national title from 6-1 to 8-1 when news of Saban’s retirement become public.

Saban’s contract with Alabama ran through 2028.

His net worth is listed at $60 million but that might be a low estimate. Since 2012 he never received less than $5 million and up to about $10 million from Alabama.

For Brother the Crimson Tide was a Green (as in money) Tide!


QB Nick Saban is a Lion who roared loudly as a college coach!

And many in Marion County have great memories of Brother, too. After I first published this article, I got these responses:

That's right he's from Monongah So why do the new people keep saying he's from Fairmont. They need to get their story right

John Olesky
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Sandy J Olson Actually, he's from Carolina and Monongah High, to be precise.

Mike Hess
John Olesky He also lived at Helen's Run. His parents had a gas station and a Dairy Cone or Dairy Queen at the intersection of Helen's Run Rd. (Rt.218) and Rt.19. Their home was beside the gas station on Helen's Run Rd. It was torn down a few years ago.

Sandy J Olson
John Olesky correct I went to school with him. My Maiden name is Chickerell .I just don't like it when they say he's from Fairmont

Harold Maze
John Olesky Ok John, to be even more precise, the Sabans lived in the house, right behind Nick Sr's gas station, at the mouth of Helens Run, and Route 19.
Robert Morris
Harold Maze , Nick lived in Carolina for several years before his dad, Nick Senior built the house at Worthington and moved his family
John Olesky
Author
Harold Maze correct. And girls gathered to giggle when nick washed cars barechested for dad's customers

Jim Davis
Nick Brother Saban lived at the mouth of Helen's Run !



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