planomateo
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Great read by Joe Posnanski @ NBC Sports.
Exhibit 1: The car story.
Summary: When Nick Saban was 11 years old, he would wash cars at his fatherās service station in Fairmont, W. Va. They called his father āBig Nick.ā When Nick was finished washing the car, Big Nick would come to inspect. And if he found a spot, a streak, a smudge, a splotch, he would say: āWash it again.ā
Notice: Big Nick never said, āGet that spot,ā or āGet that area.ā No. Wash it again. Every time. Wash it again. At some point, young Nick Saban learned to hate the black and dark blue cars. He found that it was all but impossible to hide the streaks on those cars.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ā The mission here is simple ā¦ or it seems that way. We ask one question: Why is Nick Saban so good at this? There have been countless efforts to get inside the man, to humanize him, to demonize him, to explain what is going on behind that grim look, the one that, like a bumper sticker, seems to say: āIād Rather Be Breaking Down Film.ā
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Exhibit 1: The car story.
Summary: When Nick Saban was 11 years old, he would wash cars at his fatherās service station in Fairmont, W. Va. They called his father āBig Nick.ā When Nick was finished washing the car, Big Nick would come to inspect. And if he found a spot, a streak, a smudge, a splotch, he would say: āWash it again.ā
Notice: Big Nick never said, āGet that spot,ā or āGet that area.ā No. Wash it again. Every time. Wash it again. At some point, young Nick Saban learned to hate the black and dark blue cars. He found that it was all but impossible to hide the streaks on those cars.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ā The mission here is simple ā¦ or it seems that way. We ask one question: Why is Nick Saban so good at this? There have been countless efforts to get inside the man, to humanize him, to demonize him, to explain what is going on behind that grim look, the one that, like a bumper sticker, seems to say: āIād Rather Be Breaking Down Film.ā
Read the rest here
