Saban eager for Tide’s Coaching Clinic
April 02, 2008
Nick Saban’s Alabama Football 2008 Coaching Clinic runs April 3 through April 5.
“We’re really looking forward to it,” Saban said Wednesday. “This is a great opportunity for us to host and welcome the high school coaches of our state and surrounding states who do so much to help develop the players that we have the opportunity to recruit. And they do so much to teach and develop and promote our game. This is the one opportunity a year we have to host these gentlemen, try to share some knowledge and information from a professional standpoint so that they can grow and develop. We’d love to get as many high school coaches here as we possibly can. I really enjoy this.”
Thursday’s chalk talk sessions with the Alabama coaching staff kick off the event.
Friday, Saban has arranged a full day of presentations. His good friend, Bill Belichick, will be one of the featured speakers. The clinic concludes Saturday with guests having an opportunity to see Alabama’s second scrimmage of the spring.
“We have many great speakers. It’s important to us to have a quality clinic for these guys. It’s something that we’re really looking forward to,” Saban said.
Belichick, of course, will command a lot of attention.
“Bill’s a good friend. We worked together, been friends for a long time,” Saban said. “I worked with his dad. I met him years and years ago in 1982, I think, when I worked with his dad.
“He’s a family friend as well as a coaching colleague. Certainly have a tremendous amount of respect for him and he’s been able to accomplish professionally, but also I’m looking forward to seeing him as a friend, see how he’s doing, how his family and kids and everybody else are doing.
“I really appreciate the fact that he would take the time to come here and be a part of our clinic and help us promote our game to the people that we’re trying to create a positive experience for from a professional standpoint in terms of them being part of our clinic. So we really appreciate that.”
