Nick Saban Retires

[GeoHogsGeo]

Chris Low reporting that Nick Saban has informed his team that he is retiring.

I think this NIL has him like, "fuck this bullshit."

[rzrbkfan69]

Kiffin time

[Doc Hogaday]

Kiffin time

Gotta be. Him or Lanning.

[Guardrail]

So Nick Saban is retiring ?!
Woooow

[DRYANKNPULL]

So Nick Saban is retiring ?!
Woooow

I just heard the same.

[uagrad2007]

So Nick Saban is retiring ?!
Woooow

Whoever is hired will be fired after 3 years.  The fan base has zero patience and no one can live up to the expectations that will be on him. 

[mr.zorak]

Well.
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
I hope this brings some misery to their horrible worthless fan base.

[flash23]

Whoever is hired will be fired after 3 years.  The fan base has zero patience and no one can live up to the expectations that will be on him. 

Of course it's the perfect time for them to not be on our regular schedule.

Not that it necessarily matters, but it's still funny.

[Gambler]

He saw our incoming class and quit.

[DrMongoose]

surprised it took NIL and the portal this long to run off a football coach unlike the basketball guys who bailed despite having much smaller rosters.

[DrMongoose]

Gotta be. Him or Lanning.

if you are lanning - why? you have oregon rolling and setting the expectation there and with an expanded playoff you're set in the Big 10. 

 then there is the whole 9 win seasons will not play well in tuscaloosa and all that crazy shit fan base. 

[jdcatty]

Tv stations are saying ESPN has broken the story.

[CardHog]

Looks like it.

[TC]

Woot woot

[bigpig]

greatest college coach of all time

[TC]

if you are lanning - why? you have oregon rolling and setting the expectation there and with an expanded playoff you're set in the Big 10. 

 then there is the whole 9 win seasons will not play well in tuscaloosa and all that crazy shit fan base. 

Same can be said for Kiffin too though.  8-10 wins on avg with half the pressure is a great gig in the SEC.

[Son of Spam]

They should go for Chad Morris. I hear he is a winner. 

[Texzilla]

He's the best that ever did it.  I hate to see it because he's the last bastion of doing it the old way.  I know he hate the portal and NIL and conference realignment. 

Next who replaces him?  Thats going to be a shitstorm for whomever com s in.  Same in NE if Bill retires.  And Pete carroll's out. 

[vegashog]

the portal was very good to saban whether he said he hated it or not.

i think he hated the result of the portal - everyone can get really good in one off season.

[jdcatty]

https://x.com/matt_cohen_/status/1745219694192116022?


Kind of embarrassing for the Aubies to me.  An acknowledgment they can't beat Saban.