Yahoo Sports· 2h ago· 1 min read
Nick Saban won national championships because he recruited elite talent. That's the easy answer.
He dominated college football because he developed players. That's true too.
But neither of those things fully explains why he became the greatest coach in the history of the sport.
Talent matters. Recruiting matters. Development matters. Every successful coach understands that.
What separated Nick Saban from everyone else was something much less glamorous.
It was consistency.
Not the kind of consistency that fans see on Saturdays. The kind that happened every single Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for years. The kind that players, assistants and staff members witnessed behind closed doors. The kind that created a culture where excellence became normal instead of exceptional.
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning recently gave perhaps one of the best descriptions of what made…
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