Nick Saban Kent State Football
At 5 foot 6 you wouldn t think of nick saban as a college football player.
Nick saban kent state football. Four students died all between 19 and 20 years old. In 1987 a young defensive coordinator named nick saban wanted the lead job at kent state. Things seem to have worked out ok. Saban still focuses on coaching.
He later served as an assistant coach in ncaa division i a at several schools. Kent state s terrific trio in 1972. Nick saban s kent state years saban played defensive back for kent state helping them win the mac conference for the first and only time in team history in 1972. Syracuse in 1977 west virginia in 1978 and 1979 ohio state in 1980 and 1981 navy in 1982 and michigan state from 1983 to 1987.
His alma mater passed and he wondered if he d ever be a head coach. Saban was at kent state on may 4 1970 when national guardsmen fired on a crowd of students protesting american involvement in the vietnam war. Saban a kent state student and football player at the time didn t witness the shots fired by national guard soldiers into the crowd of student protesters but his reaction to wednesday s.