The Los Angeles Times says Saban "lacks the fuzzy-warm personality that makes other coaches more popular, and it's sometimes hard to tell whether he's just won a national title or returned from the dentist's office."
That was the number one criteria for Mal when he hired Saban- finding a coach that he could share his feelings with. Show me a football coach with a fuzzy-warm personality and I will show you a coach that allows the inmates to run the asylum.
Did Coach Bryant have a fuzzy-warm personality? He had a great personality but few of his players would call him fuzzy and warm.