Great SI piece on Saban and Belichick

[WALL-E]

Nick Saban once bucked Bill Belichick's media policy, other nuggets from deep SI profile

By Michael Casagrande | mcasagrande@al.com
Published January 18, 2018, 11:42:06 AM

Sports Illustrated has an in-depth look at Nick Saban's friendship with Bill Belichick. Read more...

[bama57]

 very good read

[SUPERCOACH]

Good stuff.  Here is a direct link to the SI article:  Click here for link

You can skip the al.com link that just says "hey those real reporters over at SI wrote a great article." 

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

They agreed to meet in West Point, N.Y., at a little hotel with a name neither can remember. For two men with deep connections to Navy, the locale was a surprising choice. All the better.

This was in the late 1980s, summertime; they were both a couple years away from turning 40, and neither man’s name meant then what it does today. Nick Saban flew in from Houston, where he coached the Oilers’ defensive backs. Bill Belichick, then the Giants’ defensive coordinator, drove up from New Jersey with 16-millimeter film canisters and a projector stashed in his car.

They were two assistants from opposing teams, planning to spend the weekend discussing the intricacies of the Cover-2 defense. The rendezvous might have gotten either man fired had their bosses found out about it, so it was conducted with a stealth more befitting of the military academy down the road. “We kind of had a secret mission,” says Saban, “to go where nobody would expect us to be.”

This was before they worked together; before they competed against one another; before they each built a program that became the only contemporary analog for success of the other. Saban has since won six national titles, one at LSU and five at Alabama; Belichick is trying for his sixth Super Bowl ring with the Patriots. Their secret mission turned into one of the most significant friendships in football, one based around the very thing that brought them to that hotel in West Point: the realization that they didn’t have all the answers, and a shared obsession to find them. “We are like we are because of that,” says Saban. “We’re always trying to learn, to improve the way we do things.”

Much more: Click here for link

[2Stater]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting, HL. E-cred.

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting, HL. E-cred.

It's a long read, but well worth it.  So many great nuggets in there.

[SUPERCOACH]

My bad.  I should have moved this to the Quad the other day so folks could actually read it. 

[bama57]

Definitely worth reading

[ricky023]

Thanks also. Our guys that are leaving I believe are missing another chance for a NC. RTR!

[Hannibal Lecter, MD]

Belichick's Patriots are really getting challenged today.  The Jags are up 17-10 at the end of the 3rd, and they're in field goal range again.

Both teams are chock full of Bama players, but most of the Bama guys for the Patriots are on IR.  Maybe Cam, Marcel, and TJ will get a shot to play in the Super Bowl in a couple weeks!

ETA:  Jags hit the FG to go up 20-10.

[N.AL-Tider]

Thanks also. Our guys that are leaving I believe are missing another chance for a NC. RTR!

Preacher, would you rather have a multi-million dollar contract or a really nice ring?

[Chechem]

Belichick's Patriots are really getting challenged today.  The Jags are up 17-10 at the end of the 3rd, and they're in field goal range again.

Both teams are chock full of Bama players, but most of the Bama guys for the Patriots are on IR.  Maybe Cam, Marcel, and TJ will get a shot to play in the Super Bowl in a couple weeks!

ETA:  Jags hit the FG to go up 20-10.

Pats won 24-20   

[ricky023]

Thanks also. Our guys that are leaving I believe are missing another chance for a NC. RTR!

Preacher, would you rather have a multi-million dollar contract or a really nice ring?

  maybe both but I guess like all kids I want money above all else, well except my soul. RTR!

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