I Don't Think Saban is at Bama Next Year

I didn't before. I do now. I've always derided those who say he is going to leave, but this year, I think it might actually happen, and I don't think dissatisfaction, money, fans or anything the the University has any control over has very much to do with it.

I just think that the college game has changed too much for him in the past four years. It's not the game he wants to coach. The thing he loves most about football -- scheming and destroying offenses with a near perfect defensive lineup and gameplan -- has largely been eliminated from the game. Even his style of offense doesn't fit anymore. Clock control, run and play action just don't fit the personnel available and/or cannot score quickly enough to keep up with a game where offenses rule and defenses struggle to catch their breath much less substitute.

The game he likes to play still exists in the NFL, a game built on scheme and risk management rather than "pace" and matchups.

He can still be the kind of coach and field the kind of team he wants to field there.

That's why I think if the Colts job opens up, and is offered to him, he seriously considers it and probably takes it.

I don't have any inside sources. I don't know the family. I'm not a cousin of a trainer. I just feel this might be when he decides to roll the dice one more time and take over a good spot with the Colts at the end of the season.

And I will wish him all the best.

Hope I'm wrong.