KENT, Ohio | University of Alabama coach Nick Saban will be inducted into Kent State University’s Varsity "K" Hall of Fame in September.
Saban, who played at Kent State and coached there as an assistant in the 1970s, will be inducted on Sept. 26, the school announced Friday. He will be coaching the Crimson Tide against Louisiana-Monroe that day.
Saban, a native of West Virginia, was a member of Kent State’s 1972 Mid-American Conference championship football team as a safety. He lettered at the school from 1970-72 in football and also in baseball in his senior year.
Saban was a graduate assistant coach and a defensive assistant at Kent State after graduating, from 1973-76. He led Toledo to a MAC championship in 1990 and went on to serve as head coach at Michigan State, at LSU and with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League before arriving at Alabama in 2007. He has won four national championships as a head coach – three at Alabama and one at LSU – and has twice been named Associated Press National Coach of the Year.
He will be joined in the Hall of Fame class by Jess Bechard (baseball, 1997-2000), Julian Edelman (football, 2006-08), Kimberly Hamilton (women’s track and field/softball, 2005-09), Kira Meixner (women’s golf, 2004-08), Jermail Porter (wrestling, 2005-09), Brittney Robinson (softball, 2004-07) and Tom Varner (men’s gymnastics, 1983-85).
Saban, who played at Kent State and coached there as an assistant in the 1970s, will be inducted on Sept. 26, the school announced Friday. He will be coaching the Crimson Tide against Louisiana-Monroe that day.
Saban, a native of West Virginia, was a member of Kent State’s 1972 Mid-American Conference championship football team as a safety. He lettered at the school from 1970-72 in football and also in baseball in his senior year.
Saban was a graduate assistant coach and a defensive assistant at Kent State after graduating, from 1973-76. He led Toledo to a MAC championship in 1990 and went on to serve as head coach at Michigan State, at LSU and with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League before arriving at Alabama in 2007. He has won four national championships as a head coach – three at Alabama and one at LSU – and has twice been named Associated Press National Coach of the Year.
He will be joined in the Hall of Fame class by Jess Bechard (baseball, 1997-2000), Julian Edelman (football, 2006-08), Kimberly Hamilton (women’s track and field/softball, 2005-09), Kira Meixner (women’s golf, 2004-08), Jermail Porter (wrestling, 2005-09), Brittney Robinson (softball, 2004-07) and Tom Varner (men’s gymnastics, 1983-85).
