Nick Saban, the undisputed best school soccer coach of all time, introduced his retirement Wednesday. The numbers and legacy of his profession are staggering.
Seven nationwide championships. Eight School Soccer Playoff appearances in 10 years. Eleven SEC championships. Fifteen straight seasons with a No. 1 AP rating. A 292-71-1 file, good for sixth all time in FBS profession wins. A 201-29 file in 17 seasons at Alabama. Zero dropping seasons in 28 years as a university head coach.
Saban coached 4 Heisman Trophy winners and 49 first-round NFL draft picks. Present head coaches who labored below Saban embrace Kirby Good (Georgia), Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss), Steve Sarkisian (Texas), Dan Lanning (Oregon), Mario Cristobal (Miami), Billy Napier (Florida), Mike Locksley (Maryland), Brent Key (Georgia Tech) and Charles Huff (Marshall).
Beneath are hyperlinks to ESPN.com’s protection of Saban’s retirement, together with his first interview after his announcement, response to the information and a number of the greatest Saban tales from our archives.
Saban retires
• Nick Saban publicizes his retirement
• On first day of retirement, Saban nonetheless considering workforce first
• McGee: Farewell to the GOAT. There’ll by no means be one other like Nick Saban
Connelly: Why Nick Saban is the best school soccer coach ever
• SVP’s One Large Factor: Saban goes out as greatest to ever do it
• Sports activities world reacts to Saban’s retirement
• Video: SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on Saban’s legacy
DeBoer to take over Tide
• Washington’s Kalen DeBoer to be Alabama’s subsequent coach
• Why Bama selected DeBoer; what’s subsequent for Washington
Rittenberg: Grading rent of DeBoer to Alabama
‘Alabama again on prime’, relive Saban’s championships
As he publicizes his retirement, relive Nick Saban’s seven titles, which is extra school soccer nationwide championships than any coach within the fashionable period.
From the archives
• Low: ‘It positive ain’t babysitting’: An inside take a look at Nick Saban’s youth soccer camp
• The All-Saban workforce: The perfect gamers Nick Saban ever coached
Connelly: Rating the highest 100 coaches of the final 50 years
• Tales from Saban’s hip substitute surgical procedure and restoration
• Sarkisian: Nick Saban ‘saved my profession’
• Scarborough: Inside Saban’s college of QB growth
• The coaches who helped Saban go from ‘Younger Nicky’ to a legend
• How a 1968 highschool title explains Saban’s legendary profession
• Ever hear the one in regards to the time Nick Saban acquired fired?
• Video: Teaching legends converse to Saban’s greatness
• Video: Saban on the place all of it started for him as a coach