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Southern Savior: Saban's 10 Keys to Successby: Rex LardnerEditor American Football Monthly © More from this issue Alabama�s Nick Saban has relied on his core philosophy to resurrect the Crimson Tide program and bring The decade between Alabama Head Coach Gene Stallings retirement in 1996 and David Shula�s dismissal as head coach in 2006 was perhaps the darkest era in Crimson Tide football history. Four losing seasons, NCAA probation, a coach fired before his first game and, worst of all, five losses in a row to Auburn led to despair in Tuscaloosa. �We were at the point in our football program where we had to make a change,� according to Athletic Director Mal Moore. �Our thinking was that we wanted to hire a head coach who had coached a conference champion � someone experienced who had been there before.� With the announcement of Nick Saban�s hiring in January 2007, Moore found a coa....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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