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Nick Saban is not returning to coaching. At least that is what his daughter Kristen Saban posted on Instagram July 17.
Days after rumors swept across SEC media days that Nick Saban, the former Alabama football coach who led the Crimson Tide to six national championships, was considering a return to the sideline, Kristen Saban posted a video on her Instagram story of her father leading the Crimson Tide onto the field.
Hours later, she posted a selfie with a caption clarifying her previous post.
“Apparently some of y’all feel trolled by my last story of Nick’s walkout,” she wrote. “He’s not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you. You had your time.”
Current Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer addressed the rumor July 16 by saying Nick Saban can do what he wants to do.
“He’s one of the greatest to ever do it,” DeBoer said. “So he’s earned the right to do what he wants. I think the best part of what coach Saban is doing right now is he’s still involved in the game. He’s growing the game.”
Nick Saban’s coaching rumor started when Greg McElroy, a former Alabama quarterback who is a college football analyst, told WJOX radio that a very much in-the-know person that I have a lot of respect for and have spent a lot of time around, and just really, really admire — they seem to think Nick Saban is not done coaching.” Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin echoed the prediction later saying “I don’t think he’s done.”
Nick Saban spent his first season of retirement as an analyst on ESPN’s “College GameDay.”
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or…
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