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Saban Taught Us Excellence Is A Process, Not Just A Result

Saban often sounds like a self-help video, emphasizing how details matter before wins and are a necessary precursor to them.

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Saban, a new ESPN series examining the career of the longtime football coach and current ESPN analyst, takes a contrarian view toward the sense of entitlement plaguing our culture and today’s college campuses. Modern society focuses on instant gratification achieved after little effort. (Take, for example, recent grade inflation in the Ivy League stemming from both students’ sense of entitlement and a belief that education is but a means to an end.) On the other hand, the film, and the coach at the heart of it, connect success with prioritizing execution more than outcomes. 

The end result: A film about a football coach who doesn’t focus only on winning, but who is still widely known as one of the best.

Saban often sounds like a self-help video, emphasizing how details matter before wins and are a necessary precursor to them. In this mentality, the old parental adage “Do your best” doesn’t justify subpar outcomes so much as it requires a pursuit of excellence through constant practice, discipline, and execution. 

Process Makes Perfect

The series’ first episode, titled “The Process,” examines Saban’s first stint as a head coach at a big-time college program, when he helmed the Michigan State Spartans in the 1990s. Treading water as a middling coach — one focused entirely on game outcomes — he displayed the anger associated with someone whose........

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