🏈 The Most Dangerous Job in Sports? College Football Coach

[moreno_iv]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/andy_staples/01/19/coaches.danger/index.html?eref=sihp

Two national championship coaches sat together at a luncheon last week. One dispensed advice. The other listened.​

Andy Talley led Villanova to an FCS title this past season, but his tips had nothing to do with coverages or hot routes. Talley, the Wildcats' coach for the past 25 years, saw in Alabama's Nick Saban a bit of his old self, so Talley told Saban a tale of a coach so obsessed with winning that he took everything else for granted. Until one excruciating day in 2002.​

Pretty neat article showing the human side of college coaches that we rarely get to see.

 

[tidenumber1]

Very good article with some sound advice.

 

[jdpas29]

maybe i should message Coach Saban about dropping the little debbies and picking up some baby carrots.

 

[ExiledTidefan]

Every time I read something about how intense Saban is, and I see him blowing his top on the sidelines, I think about how Coach Bryant just ran himself into the ground as well. Coach Bryant's health was essentially gone before he retired, and it was obvious his energy was sapped around 1980, perhaps before. Now, I was only born in 1975, so I don't remember much of him on the sidelines, but I've read books on him and heard the tales.

I don't think Saban is as self-destructive as Bryant was, but the stress of the job is high, and it is not conducive to a long tenure. I'd say he keeps at this until he's 65, and walks away. To people like Saban, the money isn't the only motivation. That's contrary to the haters opinion of him.

I'm a similar personality, but again, without the Championships and the millions!