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Nick Saban to be inducted in Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

Chandler Vesselsby:Chandler Vessels•04/09/25•

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Nick Saban will be inducted in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame this year, it was announced Wednesday by LSU football. The event is scheduled to take place June 28 in Natchitoches.

Saban is one of 12 inductees this year. Four other 2025 inductees — Andrew Whitworth, Herb Vincent, Glenn Guilbeau and the late Ed Daniels — were involved with Saban during his time at LSU.

“We’re glad it worked out with coach Saban’s schedule,” said LSHOF Foundation CEO/President Ronnie Rantz said. “It makes a lot of sense for him to go in with this class and the relationships he has had with some of the other inductees.”

Saban was the coach of LSU from 2000-04 and won the first national championship of his career with the Tigers in 2003. He would later leave to become the coach of the Miami Dolphins in 2005 before returning to college in 2007 at Alabama, where he would go on to win six more national titles. He is the first coach to win a national championship with two different FBS schools since the inception of the AP poll in 1936.

Saban also won SEC Championships at LSU in 2001 and 2003, finishing with a 48-16 overall record during his time in Baton Rouge. He was originally elected into the Louisiana Hall of Fame class of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic postponed that year’s ceremony. Saban was unable to make it in any of the following years until now.

Overall in his career as a college coach, Saban finished with a 292-71-1 record, seven national championships and 11 SEC Championships. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 and is part of the December 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class.

Saban also coached at Toledo and Michigan State in the early part of his career. He retired from coaching after the 2023 season and joined ESPN’s College GameDay as an analyst this past season. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Persnality/Emerging On-Air Talent.”

At 73 years old, he is still finding ways to stay involved in the game he loves, be that with his TV job or speaking to congress about NIL. Although his time as a coach has come to an end, he provided a lot of fond memories for fans throughout his career, and this honor is just another testament of his greatness.