Alabama board of trustees to consider naming at Bryant-Denny Stadium
Alabama is set to consider a naming at Bryant-Denny Stadium this week.
On Friday, July 19, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees, more specifically the Honorary Degrees and Recognition Committee, will meet virtually at 11 a.m. CT to consider the “Consideration of Resolution Approving a Naming at Bryant-Denny Stadium at UA.”
This will likely be one way the university honors former Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who announced his retirement from coaching, after 17 years in Tuscaloosa, back in January. Tide Illustrated reported “Nick Saban Field” could be unveiled at the stadium on Sept. 7.
Alabama director of athletics Greg Byrne mentioned multiple times over the past six months the university will honor Saban for his legendary career. Step No. 1 will be considered Friday.
Saban compiled a 297-71-1 record as a college coach. He has claimed seven national championships – six at Alabama – 11 conference championships, and 23 of his teams will have played in bowl games, including a trip to the BCS National Championship Game following the 2003, 2009, 2011 and 2012 seasons and the College Football Playoff semifinals in seven of the last nine seasons, including six of the last eight national title games.
Saban is the only coach to win four BCS national titles, the only coach to win back-to-back BCS national championships and the only coach to win three CFP national championships. He has won seven titles in his last 17 years of coaching, most recently capturing the CFP national title after the 2020 season. Saban is one of three college coaches in the poll era (since 1936) to win three championships in four years (2009, 2011-12). His title in 2020 moved him past Paul “Bear” Bryant for the most championships in the poll era with seven.
Stay tuned to BamaOnLine for full coverage of tomorrow’s Board of Trustees meeting.
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