Nick “Brother” Saban’s incredible college coaching career of six national titles, 5 at Alabama and 1 at LSU, was forged during the 1968 season when Monongah High won the state title with Brother as its quarterback.

Brother is just doing at Alabama what he did for Monongah High. He has a passion for perfection, and a willingness to pay the price, even long after the coach leaves the practice field. Brother and the Lions remained and practiced even more till it was too dark to see the football. Day after day.

Brother, whose net worth is $36 million, is the same person who drove the 1968 Lions, on the practice field and in the games, to the demolition of every regular-season opponent, averaging 46.4 points to 4.6 by their opponents.

It took an incredibly muddy, rain-soaked East-West Stadium in Fairmont to hold Monongah to only a 21-12 victory over Paden City, a frequent Monongah playoff foe. It was the only 1968 contest that wasn’t turned over to the second stringers before the game was over.

Nothing changed at Alabama, where Brother has coached to double-digit seasons for 11 consecutive years and won five national titles in nine years and is the favorite to win a sixth in 2018, which with the 7^th at LSU would pull Brother ahead of legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, who had six in his career, as the coach with the most national college titles in history.

And he’s just doing what he did at Monongah High in 1968.

To read ESPN sportswriter Alex Scarborough’s fascinating article, click on the blue http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25267700/nick-saban-first-championship-west-virginia-high-school