Warren St. John's insight on the soul of Alabama's maybe-not-so enigmatic coach

The Saban profile itself in GQ.

Interview with Birmingham native Warren St. John concerning his profile of Alabama's Nick Saban, which now available online at GQ.com (link) | al.com: 

Great writing, including one of those magnificently lucky moments at the end in which the author happens to catch the perfectly telling moment.

Of course, those moments aren't luck. They don't just happen. You have to be there. You have to be listening.  And most importantly, you have to reconstruct a map of story to arrive there at just the right point.