TUSCALOOSA -- Nick Saban and his wife, Terry Saban, pulled on a tarp to unveil a 9-foot-tall bronze statue of Alabama's head coach Saturday.
It now stands among the Crimson Tide's national championship coaches in the shadow of Bryant-Denny Stadium's north end zone. The others are Frank Thomas, Wallace Wade, Paul Bryant and Gene Stallings.
Saban guided Alabama to its 13th national championship in 2009. It was Saban's second national championship, his first coming at LSU in 2003.
Among those to speak during the statue ceremony were Stallings, athletic director Mal Moore and 2009 permanent captain Rolando McClain.
n front of the statue will be a plaque with the names of the players and coaches from the 2009 team.
"This statue's going to represent what that team accomplished," Saban said. "Their names are all going to be on the national championship plaque in the sidewalk so that some day their children can come back and say, 'See, my dad was part of that team. My dad did something special for the university that will live on forever.'"
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