It gets my goat the way people bloat, gloat and promote Nick Saban, the SEC and the FBS as the highest and best level of college football athletics and coaching. See, “Clearing Up Confusion & Illusion Regarding Power 5 and HBCU Athletes, UC#3057”
To say Nick Saban is the GOAT of college football is as miseducated as saying the USA is the GOAT of countries now or ever.
In the last few days, since Nick Saban has retired as head football coach of Alabama University, many articles claim he is the greatest or winningest in college football.
The first problem with this statement is that the phrase, “college football” is being used to indicate “all of college football” when instead it only applies to a small portion and number of colleges.Alabama University is part of the NCAA, Division 1, Football Bowl Subdivision, Southeastern Conference (SEC). This conference is further branded and marketed as one of the Power Five conferences. The segregation continues on paper, in fact and in our minds.
Of course the status quo media, led by ESPN, is going to rewrite history to promote one of their boys. Sad part is we also cosign on this nonsense. See Nick Saban is the GREATEST college football COACH.In his 26 seasons as a collegiate head coach, Saban has compiled a 274-67-1 (80.1%) record. He has won 10 SEC titles (8 at Alabama). He has won seven national championships [in his subdivision] (6 at Alabama). (Evidently supposedly this is what makes him the Greatest Of All Time.)
Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University blows Saban and most others out of the water.
Coach Hayes admitted he was wrong about Deion Sanders. He now oughta admit he is wrong about Saban. The title of this subsection is the comment I left on the video linked above.Eddie Gay Robinson, Sr. spent 57 seasons compiling an unprecedented 408 college football victories to set the NCAA’s benchmark for wins in Division I (same Division as Alabama University and Nick Saban. Coach Robinson retired with an overall record of 408 wins, 165 losses, and 15 ties (69.4%) and 17 Conference titles.
More than 200 players from Grambling State University went on to play in the National Football League, including Super Bowl XXII MVP quarterback Doug Williams (Saban only has 123 players entering the NFL). This again debunks the unsubstantiated foolishness that FCS or the SWAC conference is a lesser level of football, players, competition and coaching.
Under Coach Robinson's tutelage, 85 percent of his players received college degrees. Nick Saban's percentage is 80 percent.
The Grambling State Tigers play in the same NCAA Division 1 as Alabama University.The difference is, Grambling has been segregated into the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and Southwestern Athletic Conference.
This might sound benign but Nick Saban's Football Bowl Subdivision is able to offer 22 more scholarships (purchase 22 more top players) than teams in Eddie Robinson's Football Championship Subdivision. If you don't recognize the significance of this disparity, despite your thirst for knowledge, you refuse to drink refreshing water after being led to it.
Imagine if Eddie Robinson had 22 more scholarships each year than Nick Saban or Joe Paterno or Paul “Bear” Bryant or Bobby Bowden or Pop Warner or Lou Holtz or Jimmy Johnson ….
The justification for this disparity and segregation is that FBS schools are typically much larger than FCS schools, thus more students, more money, bigger athletics budgets, better facilities and able to pay higher salaries to coaches, the NCAA, government officials...
