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Nick Saban became the greatest coach in college football history by sacrificing the one thing even seven national championships could never give back: time. For 50 years, there was always another practice, another recruit, another game and another problem more urgent than slowing down.
Winning the Heisman Trophy is supposed to be the night a college player gets to soak it all in. For Mark Ingram II, who became Alabama’s first Heisman winner in 2009, then-head coach Nick Saban had something else in mind.
Saban met with the media Thursday during the premier for the documentary.