In a little over one months’ time, Grambling State will have hosted two college football national championship winning coaches.

Current Alabama head football coach Nick Saban will visit GSU’s campus and participate in an hour-long question-and-answer meeting at the Eddie G. Robinson Museum on May 7. The event called “A Town Hall with Coach Nick Saban,” in conjunction with the continued celebrations commemorating the legendary Grambling coach Eddie Robinson’s 100th birthday. Hunt, Guillot and Associates and Hunt Forest Properties LLC are sponsoring the event.

A limited number of tickets are available online. Doors will open at 11 a.m. and the program will start at noon.

Saban’s appearance following on the heels of a visit from former Ohio State and Florida head football coach Urban Meyer, who served as the keynote speaker for the inaugural program “Legacy Keepers: Preserving the Eddie Robinson Playbook” series presented by the museum.

“It’s huge for our program,” current GSU head coach Broderick Fobbs said of Saban’s visit. “You want to try and fill yourself with as much knowledge as you possibly can. I try to take a trip every year to go and visit a legendary coach that has done something great and has coached football for a number of years. This year I haven’t had to go very far, they’ve actually come here.

“To get another big-time coach, a national champion coach, I think it’s amazing. The way they do things, there’s a parallel between all those guys, Dabo Swinney included. There’s certain things they do a little differently, but for the most part the meat and potatoes of their program are pretty much identical. It’s built on defense playing hard, playing fast, being the most athletic but playing with the most effort. I think we kind of mimic that on our level.”

Fobbs said he’s met Saban before on the recruiting trail, but he’s excited for the opportunity for him, his coaching and players to spend some time with Alabama coach.

“One thing about meeting coach Saban is when you see him out there, there’s not much time to talk. There’s a couple minutes of ‘hello, how are you doing?’ and then he’s on the next deal,” Fobbs said. ‘He doesn’t waste time. Just having the opportunity to say hello to him is always beneficial.”

Saban’s No. 1 ranked Crimson Tide squad played Clemson for the College Football Playoff National Championship last season, losing 44-16. Alabama’s played for four straight and seven of the last 10 national titles since the Saban took over the program in 2007, winning it all in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017.

Alabama is the only school to make the CFP field all five years and has the most playoff victories with six.

Saban has amassed a 247-80-1 record in his 30-year head coaching career that’s included a stop in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, as well as Toledo, Michigan State and mostly recently LSU before his current 11-year tenure as the Crimson Tide coach.

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