{"id":433652,"date":"2018-04-18T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=433652"},"modified":"2018-04-18T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:56:00","slug":"corso-saban-is-the-greatest-college-football-coach-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/corso-saban-is-the-greatest-college-football-coach-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Corso: \u201cSaban is the greatest college football coach of all time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LeeCorso-TeamFocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-432800\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/LeeCorso-TeamFocus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Scott McInnerney<br \/>\nWNSP Reporter<\/p>\n<p>MOBILE, AL \u2013 ESPN personality Lee Corso called Alabama head coach Nick Saban \u201cthe greatest college football coach of all time,\u201d Tuesday at the Team Focus banquet at the Mobile Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Corso and Saban were the featured guests at Team Focus\u2019 event, and there is no doubt in Corso\u2019s mind that Saban is the greatest of all time. Saban tied former Alabama coach Paul \u201cBear\u201d Bryant in national championship wins this year with his sixth overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he has done at Alabama is amazing,\u201d said Corso. \u201cIt&#8217;s harder to win nowadays. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re playing a different sport than it was back in the old days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corso, who has college football coaching experience from 1969-1984, cites Saban\u2019s win percentage (.781) and bowl game win percentage (.590) as factors putting Saban above Bryant. Despite turning 66 last season, Saban has shown no indication of retiring from coaching, and he credits his group of players for his continued success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we&#8217;ve been very fortunate to have a lot of great players and a lot of great coaches who have helped us have success,\u201d Saban said. \u201cWe certainly thank everybody that&#8217;s been a part of helping us be successful at Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saban\u2019s appearance at the Team Focus banquet is his 11th consecutive year of attendance. Team Focus is a youth mentorship program founded by Mike and Mickie Gottfried in 2001 dedicated to providing \u201cleadership skills, guidance, Godly values and a continual relationship with a mentor\u201d to young men who grew up without a positive father figure in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, tune in to Sports Drive on WNSP weekday afternoons from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlDXMAM-crU\">here<\/a> for video of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Scott McInnerney WNSP Reporter MOBILE, AL \u2013 ESPN personality Lee Corso called Alabama head coach Nick Saban \u201cthe greatest college football coach of all <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/corso-saban-is-the-greatest-college-football-coach-of-all-time\/\" title=\"Corso: \u201cSaban is the greatest college football coach of all time\u201d\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,147,150,117,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-433652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alabama","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-local-sports","9":"category-news","10":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433655,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433652\/revisions\/433655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}