Nick Saban, the GOAT of college football head coaches

Nick Saban has retired, the greatest to ever do it? Much can be said...

The college football landscape was expecting a potentially massive shakeup in the coaching world after Michigan’s National Championship. Surely top Wolverine Jim Harbaugh was fixing to leave for the NFL?

Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. But Nick Saban decided he’s done and that it was time to retire to his new Jupiter Island home.

We all knew this day was coming. Father Time is undefeated. I’ve been ready to bury him for a long time and was suspicious that the collapse was imminent multiple times. As it happened, it never came, he called it before anyone really had the chance to take him down. Georgia, Texas, and Michigan started to show signs of catching the Tide and that was it. He’s out.

In a recent conversation about his eventual retirement I was challenged after initially offering hesitation or push back to the idea that Saban was the Greatest College Football coach Of All Time.

“Who has a better resume? Who?”

So I spent a little time meandering through some Wikipedia entrees and mulling options to present as an alternative GOAT college football coach. I came up empty. Another coach may have a case as being a more important forefather of college football coaching or perhaps a more influential figure, although those are both questionable. At any rate I couldn’t find another coach with a more impressive resume of success.