Nick Saban
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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · Nick Saban
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What Does Nick Saban Mean by Relief Syndrome?
Nick Saban describes relief syndrome as the urge, after something significant, to rest on your laurels. Players ask for Monday off after a big win. He is already thinking about how to win the next game and what to improve. He says he never developed relief syndrome, because he was never allowed to rest on a result.
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Why Does Nick Saban Take Big Problems to His Wife Miss Terry?
Nick Saban says a head coach has no one above him to talk to. Assistants can weigh in, but the big decisions are his to make alone. He took problems to his wife Miss Terry. Her outside perspective was often different from his own, and she was not locked into the job the way he was.
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Why Does Nick Saban Enjoy Life More After Leaving Coaching?
Stress level is way down. It is easier to enjoy other things because you are not so stressed about this one thing. Now you can enjoy other things, people, relationships, have more fun, laugh more, and he thinks all those things are pretty healthy.
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Why Will a Bigger College Football Playoff End Bowl Games?
Expanding the college football playoff will make bowl games obsolete. Players will not want to play in them. Fans will not attend and the games will not be supported. Bowl games have been a long standing tradition in college sports and served as a reward for successful teams. This tradition will disappear as the playoffs take over.
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Why Does Nick Saban Think Players Changed?
Players were making more transactional decisions. Well, it's not the reason I left. in fact, we had name, image, and likeness, I think, the last three years that I coached. And having been in the NFL, managing the salary cap and all that, it, it wasn't that big an issue. but I could see that players were changing, and I could see that the way you were going, people were making more transactional decisions.
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How Do You Keep Yourself From Getting Too Smart to Learn?
Pray to be a blessing rather than to be blessed to check your ego. Well, I was praying that I wanted to continue to be a blessing to other people, which probably was me trying to check my own ego and make sure it didn't get out there to where it was going to have a negative effect on things. There was like seventy people got interviewed or ninety people got interviewed in this documentary that would say, yeah, he had an ego. But I tried to keep it in check.
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How Do You Continue to Learn as a Coach?
Saban was always trying to learn. He remembered his dad saying you got two ears and one mouth, that means you should listen twice as much you talk. He has always been a listener and he always tries to learn from other people. He was into anybody that was doing something of significance in our profession or a good book to read about a successful coach.
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How Do You Prevent Stress From Carrying Work Home With You?
Saban learned to separate his work from his personal life when he became a head coach. It was too stressful to take work home every night. He created built in rules to make sure he got rest and took time off with his family. This change was necessary because being so committed was not healthy.