17 years ago today: Saban introduced as Alabama head coach

January 4th, 2007 is a day that will go down not just in Alabama Crimson Tide history, but the history of college football. University of Alabama Athletics Director Mal Moore made the most important hire in his tenure official, introducing Nick Saban as the 27th head coach in Alabama history. Since then, Saban has won six national championships, nine SEC championships, coached four Heisman winners, 76 first-team All-Americans, and had 123 players drafted with 44 of them in the first round. Saban has established a standard at Alabama that every other program in the country has tried to replica