Earlier this afternoon, Matt Hayes at Bleacher Report published one of the most beautiful, moving features on one of football’s most enigmatic and contradictory figures, Alabama head coach Nick Saban.
Just when you think you have the Death Star of college football all figured out, that he's an obsessive, controlling, meticulous perfectionist, along comes a refreshing reality to knock it all sideways.
"If I break down crying while I'm talking about Nick Saban and his dad, well, I'm not a damn bit ashamed of it," says Tom Hulderman, a childhood friend of Saban’s. "That's how much those two men have meant to me and so many others.