Nick Saban knows what it takes be a successful college coach. He also knows it takes time to get acclimated.

The former Alabama coach and longtime friend of Bill Belichick defended UNC’s poor start under the first-year coach by using an example from his early days with the Crimson Tide.

“Every coach needs to have the opportunity to establish his culture and also to recruit his kind of players,” Saban said on “College Game Day. ” “First year at Alabama, we lost to ULM. Remember that? Alabama beat them 73-0 this year. We lost to them on a Thursday, most humiliating loss of my whole career. I get in my car to go home, and I got to stop and get gas. I got no gas. I used to wear then my LSU national championship ring, I pay for the gas, the guy says, ‘Hey, what is that?’ I said, ‘It’

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