The two men, Alabama football coach, Nick Saban and Louisiana coach, Billy Napier, are more than a generation apart in age. They share a work bond from Napier’s five seasons as an assistant to Saban. Napier is also the newest member of the ‘Nick assistants, turned head coaches’ club.
Perhaps even deeper, Nick and Billy share powerful life experiences. Both men played football for their fathers at some point of their playing careers. Both men also lost their fathers too soon to untimely deaths.
What Saban and Napier share beyond all else, is the immeasurable impact the fathers had on the sons.