HOOVER, Ala. — College football loves copying Nick Saban.
Schools poach the Alabama institution’s assistants for head jobs almost annually. His peers steal his schemes and borrow his buzzwords, trying to pass them off as their own. Why stop now? If athletics directors and coaches are not getting busy replicating Saban’s playbook when it comes to lifting lagging COVID-19 vaccination rates, they’re doing it wrong.
The SEC’s longest-tenured coach was asked here at SEC media days to pinpoint the secret to longevity in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately world of his sport.