John Wooden's UCLA basketball or Nick Saban's Alabama football?

Of course Finebaum would be the one to pose that question.

Wooden won seven-straight titles and 10 in 12 seasons

Bama

There is a joke to bad here about car dealers and such, I just can't put it together.

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Of course Finebaum would be the one to pose that question.

Wooden won seven-straight titles and 10 in 12 seasons

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Also an 88 game win streak, which came a couple years after a 47 game win streak. Those two streaks are #1 and #3 all time in CBB and they came in the same era from the same school/coach. Saban's best win streak is good for tying at 20th all time. Granted, a lot of the streaks ahead of him were from ancient times in a different era. So in fairness I'll just go post 2000s. Miami, Clemson and FSU all had longer win streaks in that timespan and so did USC but they had those vacated. Saban has only had 1 back to back title, and he just notched his 2nd undefeated season this year. Wooden blows both of those out of the water.

That era of UCLA hoops had title streaks and win streaks that will never be matched, it was absolutely absurd. That's why I'm going with UCLA and Wooden. Not a knock on Saban or Bama at all and not trying to be a biased LSU fan here, he owns the best run of CFB all time and I have no qualms admitting that. It's just not as dominant or impressive as what those Wooden UCLA teams did imo

Sam Gilbert vs. Dodge dealer.

UCONN girls basketball has a claim in the discussion.

Both were unbelievably adept at hiding massive cheating.

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John Wooden's UCLA basketball or Nick Saban's Alabama football?

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UCLA and here's my rationale: less national exposure, these were the days when the NBA struggled to get on TV (soon exacerbated with their CBS contracts in the mid-70s), no cable TV, no social media, coaches at the major college schools truly had to work to attract big-time recruits and we have to remember, so many of these athletes played college ball then without NBA dreams bc they knew they wouldn't get the exposure which would translate to more money and all that. To a degree (I'm not naive), it really was amateur sports then for basketball and Wooden's teams ran roughshod over the competition. Now the counter is the Alabama plays in the most athletic and exposed era for college sports ever, players are basically professionals however in that context less chance for parity in football, the rich remain rich and the other teams don't even compete, it's basically a trustbuster among 5 schools in college football with almost no deviation. That was NOT THE CASE when Wooden coaches UCLA I mean teams like Utah and fricking Texas Western won a national championship, Princeton advanced to the Final Four, Dayton played UCLA in a championship game, harder degree of difficulty in those days. I give it to Wooden.

Everytime John Wooden won a title hé won his Conference.

That's how you got invited to the dance.

There was no eye test.

Saban has won the SEC half the time but still claimed the Mythical National Totle.

He didn't have to go through a real tournament, just press love.