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Nick Saban knows who initially started the rumor of his possible return to coaching.
Greg McElroy, a former Alabama football quarterback, said in July the national championship-winning Crimson Tide coach was “not done coaching.” At the Nick Saban Legacy Awards in Birmingham on Monday, Aug. 18, Saban refuted the rumor and called out McElroy by name.
“I don’t know where that came from,” Saban said.
Saban spent his first season of coaching retirement as an analyst on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” But Saban shared what he missed most about college football was being part of a team.
“The relationships that you have with the players and coaches and people you have in the organization, and how you can impact them,” Saban said. “I have been part of a team since I was 9 years old playing little league baseball. I just had a tremendous fear that I would miss it. That part, I miss. But the working 14 hours per day, the recruiting, the changes that were going through in college football, the challenges that, that presented was a little much at my age and the last year I coached.”
Saban said Alabama’s College Football Playoff loss to Michigan at the Rose Bowl was “really, really difficult.”
“I thought it was the right time, (Terry Saban) thought it was the right time,” Nick Saban said. “We don’t have any regrets.”
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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