Alabama Football: One Week After the BCS Title (AUDIO)

One week ago today Nick Saban's team stormed the Sun Life Stadium field, acomplishing what seemed to be impossible, a second consecutive BCS national championship and third overall title-the only team to ever do so (a feat that will hold up with the playoff coming in 2014).

Fans in Miami high-fived the strangers in the seats around them, frantically waving their shakers while those still in Tuscaloosa took to the streets where hundreds of others donned in their gameday atire waited as "Rammer Jammer" filled the air and the "SEC" chant broke out on more than one ocasion.

The memory still seems vivid. Alabama's offensive unit working with an efficiency normally reserved for practice, while the defense did what they do best in statement games like this-suffocate opposing offenses. With each snap, and each minute off the clock, the realization became even more clear-it wasn't a matter of if Alabama would win national championship number 15, but moreso a question of what time the celebration would begin.

Aaron Suttles of the Tuscaloosa News remembers that night and says there was one thing that seperated the Alabama Crimson Tide from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on that Miami night.

January 7th culminated with a crystal ball held high into the air as it sparkled amid the flashbulbs popping in each directon.  However that moment would not have been possible without Saban's success on the recruiting trail and as Suttles points out, when it comes to picking out the best players for his system, few do it better than Nick Saban.

Acording to Rivals.com Nick Saban has never finished lower than 10th in recruiting (2007, a class assembled in less than a month), including four finshes with the top recruiting class.

Audio coming courtesy of The Game with Ryan Fowler and Mick Gillispie.