Saban, a new ESPN series examining the career of the longtime football coach and current ESPN analyst, takes a contrarian view toward the sense of entitlement plaguing our culture and today’s college campuses. Modern society focuses on instant gratification achieved after little effort. (Take, for example, recent grade inflation in the Ivy League stemming from both students’ sense of entitlement and a belief that education is but a means to an end.) On the other hand, the film, and the coach at the heart of it, connect success with prioritizing execution more than outcomes.
The end result: A film about a football coach who doesn’t focus only on winning, but who is still widely known as one of the best.
