2015 Nick Saban
The 2015 Blanton Collier Award winner was Alabama head football coach Nick Saban. The award celebration was at the Brown Theater Louisville, KY on June 26, 2015.
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Award Video courtesy of the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame |
Coach Saban giving his acceptance speech |
Dave Gyor, President of the BCSG and Dr Kay Collier McLaughlin with Blanton Collier Award winner Coach Nick Saban |
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Nicholas Lou "Nick" Saban, Jr. is the head football coach of the University of Alabama, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football Leagues's Miami Dolphins and three other universities: Louisiana State University, Michigan State University and the University of Toledo. He appeared on the September 1, 2008, cover of Forbes magazine as "The Most Powerful Coach in Sports". Coach Saban's career record as a college head coach is 177-59-1.
Saban led the LSU Tigers to the BCS National Championship in 2003 and the Alabama Crimson Tide to BCS and AP national championships in the 2009, 2011 and 2012 seasons, making him the first coach in college football history to win a national championship with two different Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936.Saban and Paul "Bear" Bryant are the only coaches to win an SEC championship at two different schools. In May 2013, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Saban also is the co-founder, along with his wife, Terry, of the foundation Nick's Kids. This foundation has been used by the Sabans to help mentally-challenged children ever since Saban started head coaching. In the first three years at Alabama, Nick's Kids raised more than $1 million.