Alabama football coach Nick Saban has impacted so many lives during his career. A master list would be too long for discussion and still invariably incomplete. The list of players alone would be in the thousands.
One popular list is most often used to compare football coaches. It is a coach’s list of how many head coaches there are under their sphere of primary influence. The simplest version is measuring how many head coaches have been developed through the ‘coaching tree’ of a particular head coach.
Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant was long acknowledged for the size of his coaching tree.