The ever-expanding college football coaching staff and how Nick Saban started it all

Alex Scarborough:

A Florida support staff member paces near the 50-yard line, staring across the field of the Georgia Dome. It’s December and the SEC Championship Game will begin in an hour — No. 18 Florida vs. No. 2 Alabama. Players from both teams warm up, yet it’s not an athlete who has this young, up-and-coming coach’s attention. He looks over at the opposing sideline and marvels at the size of the crimson-clad throng of coaches at Nick Saban’s beck and call. (The size of Saban’s armada grew again this week with the hiring of former USC coach Steve Sarkisian as an analyst.)