Nick Saban

No one likes Nick Saban. He’s the Bill Belichick of college football — a hardliner who wins a lot. Under Saban, the Alabama Crimson Tide have won four National Titles and have an all-time record of 101-19. People forget that before he built this legacy in Alabama, Saban was a head coach for the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, and a horrible one at that. Coming from a college system where the head coach’s word was the law, Saban struggled to adjust.

NFL players with inflated contracts routinely talked back to him, sometimes refusing to follow orders. Players used to call him Nick just to piss him off because they knew he preferred to be called “coach”, or “coach Saban.” By the end of his second season in Miami, Saban accepted a job with Alabama and resigned as head coach of the Dolphins.