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Saban appears to have a knack for getting people into the NFL, including himself — he had two stints totaling six years as a pro football assistant with Houston and Cleveland. Saban also spent two seasons at the Dolphins’ head coach.

His first job in which he was solely in charge of defensive backs was at Ohio State in 1980-81, and according to pro-football-reference.com and the school’s lettermen list, four of his players played at least a season in the NFL. At Michigan State as defensive coordinator and secondary coach in 1983-87, he had six defensive backs move on to the NFL.

His 2003 national championship team at LSU had six defensive backs letter that season who eventually played in the NFL. At Alabama, he has had five play in the NFL, although pro football rookies Mark Barron (Bucs), Dre Kirkpatrick (Bengals) and DeQuan Menzie (Chiefs) are set to make it six, seven and eight this season

Pass efficiency D at Bama

2007 38th
2008 14th
2009 2nd
2010 6th
2011 1st

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Posted by BigEdLSU

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Posted on 8/20/12 at 9:59 pm to Alahunter

I would argue that at lesser schools, he was the best talent evaluator out there. At elite schools, he had the talent that would have went pro anywhere.

He has switched to the 3-4 and emphasized lbers in the recent memory.

I think cooper was a better db evaluator, while Saban was at the same time the best recruiter.

I think his lb core is > his secondary at bama

This post was edited on 8/20/12 at 10:00 pm

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