ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï alumnus Nick Saban, considered one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, has retired from the University of Alabama, where he coached the Crimson Tide for the past 17 seasons.
Saban, a native of Fairmont, West Virginia, graduated from ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State with his bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1973 and earned his master of education degree in health and physical education in 1975.
At ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State, Saban was a safety on the Golden Flashes football team and was a member of the 1972 squad that won the university’s first conference championship. During his time at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State, Saban earned three letters in football and one in baseball from 1970 to 1972. In 1973, he was a graduate assistant coach and defensive assistant for the Flashes. He was inducted into the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Varsity K Hall of Fame in 2015.
A student at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State during the May 4, 1970, shootings, Saban also met his wife, the former Terry Constable, at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State, where she also graduated.
Saban, 72, has won seven national championships over his career, which ended with Alabama’s appearance in this year’s Rose Bowl, where they lost to the University of Michigan.
Video courtesy of CBS 42, Birmingham, Alabama.