Being a football coach isn't for everyone. You have to be focused, and must know the task at hand if you want to become a head coach at the most elite levels. And one guy who seems to show himself to be focused as it gets his Nick Saban. And a new book focuses on just how intensively focused he is on football with his reaction to 9/11 during his time coaching the LSU Tigers.
"NY Post - Nick Saban was so focused on football that he plowed straight through work during the infamous Sept. 11 attacks, according to a new book.
In “The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football’s Era of Chaos,” written by Armen Keteyian and John Talty and available to buy on Aug. 27, the scene was described where Saban was in his first season coaching LSU and preparing for a game the upcoming Saturday against SEC rival Auburn.
The words that stuck out the most for me were "some confusion". I am not sure if my reaction to the worst attack on the soil of the United States since Pearl Harbor would be just confusion. But the story continues and gets even more weird.
"NY Post When the second plane made it clear that there was an ongoing terrorist attack, Saban still did not break stride.
“Boys, there are some screwed-up people in the world,” he said, according to the book. “Now, what are we going to do when we’re in Cover Two against these routes?”
LSU practiced as scheduled, and Saban never addressed the terror attack with the team, as some of the Tigers players reportedly had “no idea what was happening across the country.”
Saban later apologized for having his “head in the sand” to a newspaper as the attacks were unfolding "
The exact football coach's response from Saban here; instead of showing concern or talking to his players about the attack, he was more concerned about the Cover Two. Nick Saban did later apologize and, truly, I do believe he wasn't trying to be insensitive nor be disrespectful, any way. I think he truly was just so narrow-minded about football and, having his team prepared, he actually had no idea how much tragedy was unfolding in the country at the time.