Kristen Saban & Adam Setas

Kristen Saban & Adam Setas

Brother making a toast at the reception

Brother and daughter Kristen



You may now kiss the bride

Brother and wife Terry dance at reception

Rolls Royce rolls onto Alabama field

flanked by crimson and white fireworks

Brother hoisting national title trophy astride elephant on wedding cake

Brother, what a wedding!

It was a wedding that only a father making $7 million a year could afford.

Alabama football coach Nick “Brother” Saban rolled out the red carpet and Rolls Royce onto Alabama’s football field – Bryant-Denny Stadium -- amid crimson and white fireworks for daughter Kristen’s reception after her wedding to fellow Alabama graduate Adam Setas.

The photos include Brother and his wife, Terry, dancing during the reception and Brother’s toast during the reception.

To watch the video, click on http://sportsnewsnow.blog.ajc.com/2015/06/02/nick-saban-like-youve-never-seen-him-at-daughters-wedding/  

Nick and Terry Constable Saban have two children, Nicholas and Kristen. 

Brother, playing quarterback and safety, won a Class A state championship as a high school senior in 1968. Monongah went undefeated, outscoring opponents 46.4 to 5.3 in the regular season, and didn't score fewer than 39 points until the state championship game, which the Lions won 21-12. He made All-State in baseball as an infielder and in basketball as a guard.

He grew up in an area that produced future coaching greats and athletes: Sam Huff, the Hall of Fame linebacker for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins in the 1950s and '60s, was from Edna Gas, now part of Farmington; Fielding Yost, who coached Nebraska, Stanford, Kansas and Michigan in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was from Fairview; Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez, also known for his stints at West Virginia and Michigan, is from Grant Town; and the late Southern Cal coach John McKay was from Everettesville.

It was Nick’s sister, Dianna “Dene” Thompson, Class of 1968, who lives in Worthington and teaches at Monongah Elementary, who gave him the “Brother” tag that sticks to this day from those who knew him in his early days. Dene attended the 2015 Monongah High Alumni Reunion in Fairmont May 23.

Their parents were the legendary Nick Saban, Sr., whose Idamay Black Diamonds Pop Warner youth football team was the nucleus of Monongah High state football titles, and Mary Conaway Saban Pasko.

Brother coached at Toledo, Michigan State and LSU, where he won one of his four national titles before winning three more at Alabama. Before that, he was a graduate assistant at Kent State, then an assistant coach at Syracuse, West Virginia, Ohio State, Navy and Michigan State and with the Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns in the National Football League.