How A Guy Can Support Another Guy, Starring Osborne And Saban
One of Nick Saban’s first games as head coach of Michigan State in 1996 — maybe his first game, actually — was a disaster beat-down at the hands of then-college football king Nebraska. The final was 55-14.
But, look at how Saban remembers it here:
“They beat us 55–14, and the score did not indicate how bad they beat us,” Saban said. “I hadn’t been in college football for four or five years, being in the NFL. I’m thinking we’re never going to win a game. We’ll never win a game here at Michigan State. I must have taken a bad job, wrong job, no players, something.
“I remember Coach Osborne when we shook hands after the game, he put his arm around me and whispered in my ear, ‘You’re not really as bad as you…
