What's in Saban's binder?

He doesn't have a binder, he has a ziploc. Championship rings.

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What's in Saban's binder?

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IDK man, a copy of how to win friens and influence people?

I read The Blind Side. the chapter on him is pretty telling. Dude is a gentlemen. He doesnt just come in and tell the mom i like your drapes to please her. He says, " i like how you picked the color in the valences matches the pattern in the carpet" or some such drivel and you can tell A. He Means it and B. the fricker knows what he's talking about.

How in the hell do you compete with that day in and day out? i hate they guy as much as anyone but, A Salut, as the Italians say, you know?

All the souls of LSU fans

There is no binder. A binder is not a lifestyle. For Saban it is his lifestyle. The process. Also, never straying from the process no matter how much success you've had. Being at LSU and Bama have helped. Could he have done the same thing at Oregon, Michigan, Nebraska? Maybe, maybe not.

long post, but Saban's binder is filled with a lot of notes from every year. Read this in an old article about Napier at UL.

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It’s Saban’s “Process” at Alabama, where countless support staffers and analysts work in unison to fuel a championship-program. Not every machine can replicate “The Process,” but some have attempted with varying levels of success.
Everyone wants to know Alabama’s secrets. They want to copy and paste “The Process,” and implement it whatever they learned at their next gig.

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Napier admits he copied and tweaked the Saban plan at Louisiana. It’s not “The Process” in Lafayette. He calls it “The Journey.” He revamped the entire recruiting staff when hired in December 2017, secured more money for analysts and nutritionists, and implemented new strength-and-conditioning calendars similar to those posted in Tuscaloosa. He knows his process works. He’s not perfect, but that’s also why he records every success, failure and mundane activity in a notebook. He’s always learning, and forever tweaking his plan.
He he can tell you what went right or wrong on any date of his coaching career since he became part of the Saban coaching tree — whether it was a run-of-the-mill day as a quarterbacks coach at Colorado State on Nov. 3, 2012, or the afternoon Louisiana lost to Coastal Carolina on Oct. 14, 2020. Provide Napier a few minutes and he will dig up a notebook with every lesson learned, every conversation had, and the details of every win or loss from any day in his coaching life. He catalogues every day, and has a mini-library of journals packed to the margins with lessons from each day as a coach. It’s a practice he learned at Alabama, where he watched Saban fill notebook after notebook with information cataloguing every day of the Alabama operation in 2011 as an analyst and again from 2013 through 2016 as the receivers coach.

Writing helps retention and provides easy access to pinpoint an idea or conversation from three years ago he may only have a faint recollection.

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Where’d you get that? I’ve never seen it. Do you have more?

He’s organized and doesn’t let anything slide.

His players and coaches are held to a standard of maturity and work ethic that would break some of the Wanna be NFL first rounders that have no concept of the word “team” and are only looking out for themselves.

That doesn’t happen at bama