Objectively I don't see how anyone can put Saban above Urban. In short for Meyer:
-A career 94-17 record, an 81.9% winning percentage which is the highest of any active coach in all of college football. He is 5-1 all time in Bowls and three of the 5 bowl games were BCS Bowls. He has coached two heisman trophy winning quarterbacks. During his last 7 seasons, his teams won their conference 5 of those 7 seasons. He won the Mountain West conf both years and has won the SEC 2 of 4 seasons (and playing for his third in two weeks). He has won two national championships in the last three seasons. Currently his team in 11-0 and set up to play in their third national title game in 4 years.
Saban:
-in 14 years of coaching college football, he has won a grand total of 2 conference championships and one split NC (Where the media voted USC #1). His college record is 121-50 -1 (about 70.7% winning percentage), he has a 3-6 bowl record (with only 3 career "big 4 bowl" appearances). In his 5 years at Michigan State, he finished the Big ten 5th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 2nd in order, with no conference title.
yes, Saban is bringing Alabama to relevance, but he isn't better than Urban, and it isn't even close.

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Posted by Alahunter

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 11/25/09 at 2:34 pm to austingator

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Saban is bringing Alabama to relevance, but he isn't better than Urban, and it isn't even close

One game separates them in the last two years. Tebow had to win that one game late in the 4th quarter, not Urban's coaching. It's alot closer than you'd like to think.

eta - They're both great coaches, and if both stay at the schools they're at now. There will be plenty of head to head matchups in the years to come.