Brother and Terri Saban |
Sabans donate to Project Graduation
Nick Saban, Class of 1969, has donated
valuable University of Alabama memorabilia signed by the football coach and his
wife, Terri, to the
30th annual Marion County Project Graduation.
They will be prized prizes raffled off
to raise money to
keep graduates from engaging in risky behavior at parties after graduating. Project
graduation began in 1988, the year that Brother quarterbacked Monongah High to
the state football championship.
Since, Brother has won six national
titles, at LSU and Alabama, tying Paul “Bear” Bryant, also an Alabama coach, with
the most national crowns in college football history.
Brother won the national at Louisiana
State in 2003 and at Alabama in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017. He is
considered the greatest coach in college football history.
Previously, after his Monongah and Kent
State coaching careers, Brother was head coach at Toledo and Michigan State and
was a defensive backs coach at WVU in 1978 and 1979.
Brother and Terri also will share a recorded
message with this year’s Marion County graduates.
VanGilder reached out to Saban and his wife
of 46 years, Terri, with the idea of celebrating milestones in Marion County.
The Sabans donated multiple items to MCPG, and are going to dedicate some time
to share a message with the graduates.
They have donated millions of dollars to
Nick’s Kids Fund, which helps children.
Brother inherited his helping ways. The
late Nick Saban, Jr. would “buy” worthless items from down-on-their-luck Marion
Countians to help them out and provided football and baseball equipment to the
children Nick, Sr. coached in Pop Warner and other leagues.
Saban and the
former Terry Constable have two children, Nicholas and Kristen.
Saban's
sister, Dianna “Dene” Thompson, Class
of 1968, a Monongah Elementary teacher who lives in Hutchinson with husband
Leroy, gave Nick
the Brother nickname that stuck to this day.
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