Would Nick Saban Come Out Of Retirement For The LSU Job?

Since Brian Kelly's firing on Sunday night, many have floated the idea of Nick Saban coming out of retirement to coach at LSU.

Saban retired two years ago after 17 seasons at Alabama, where he won six national championships. Since his retirement, Saban has been working with ESPN's College GameDay.

If he returned to Baton Rouge, it would bring him home, where he was the head coach for five seasons from 2000 to 2004 and won the 2003 National Championship.

Fox Sports' Joel Klatt has already said that Saban, as well as Urban Meyer, would need to be LSU's first calls as they look to replace Kelly.

Now, Todd McShay is the latest to suggest Saban would consider a reunion at LSU. Per On3:

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“And I can say this based off of what I do know,” McShay said. “LSU is going to make an offer to Nick and Miss Terry that will force them to reconsider their justifiable stance of ‘at this point in our lives, working College GameDay, ESPN, ABC is where we where we belong.’ It’s healthier. Nick’s enjoying it. Miss Terry, loving it.”

“He left because college football had changed, and it was time,” McShay said. “And the recruiting and the NIL, and the transfer portal. It’s just like, it’s hard to coach anymore, but there’s no one more qualified to come in, even at his age and (this) point in his career, to kind of temper, keep the rat poison out, and do all the things. And he’s even said publicly, and I’ve talked to him in meetings, one of his, I don’t want to put words in his mouth but, regrets in his coaching history was leaving LSU.”

“And I think LSU, knowing what I know, I don’t think they have delusions of grandeur,” McShay said. “I don’t think that they believe that they absolutely will get Nick Saban, but I do know the people down there, and I will be shocked privately, not something that is going to, you know, Thamel is going to start reporting, or anyone else. Privately, there will be an offer made that will make Nick walk into his home office with Miss Terry, or get out in the lake and say, ‘Let’s at least talk about this for a minute.’

“That’s my guess, but I don’t know that it’s going to be enough. I don’t think $100 million over X amount of years would necessarily be enough. He’s got money, he’s got rings, he’s got everything that you could ever imagine a coach when you set out to be a college coach could have, right? But this might be the only place that he might say, well, let’s, let’s sit down and talk.”

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Do you think Saban would actually return to Baton Rouge and take the LSU job?