   A muddled world teems with people who don't know what they
want and people who know what they want only somewhat and people
who know what they want only mostly. When Toledo football
players met their new, first-time head coach in a meeting room
in the winter of 1989-90, they knew little of him. They knew the
guy coached defensive backs for the Houston Oilers. They knew he
coached under Jerry Glanville, and that Glanville would leave
tickets at will-call for Elvis Presley. They knew he had coached
defense under George Perles at Michigan State. They might have
heard he was 38.  "Other than that, we didn't have a clue," said
Kevin Meger, Toledo's then sophomore quarterback.  They would
get their clue not in the first hour, and not in the first 15
minutes, but in the first one minute. "Things were about to
change," Meger said. Saban might seem distant and distracted and
vanilla if you catch him in a Tuscaloosa press conference, but
to his players he is vivid, the clearest clear, precisely aware
of what he want