Alabama is the perfect lightning stroke of college football. Ten years of irrelevance kept their boosters from meddling in Saban's business, giving the control freak Saban time to build his program as he desired. Note that I do not say "control freak" in a negative sense. Saban owns his program from top to bottom - and he wants that ownership. Alabama, the state and the people, show absolute loyalty to the football program, making the entire state an engine to further support the school's football program. Add the growing power of the SEC as a conference, amplified by the increased TV money and ESPN's investment in the SEC, and you get a defacto 24/7/365 advertisement for Alabama through national media owned by Disney. Then add the SEC Network, which further cements Alabama's position as the college program and here we are. It will never happen again. It was the perfect storm.