re: "People close to Saban expect him to retire if Alabama wins tonight "

If he choosed to retire I would be happy for him. Like most of your threads with no links, I smell bullshite. My nephew is being recruited by Alabama, Auburn and Stanford. That was one of first questions he asked to Saban was his long term plans. Saban replied "As long as my health and Mrs.Terry allows it" I will be coach at Alabama. I dont trust any coach so what you said wouldn't suprise me.

FYI - the article that apparently can't be found is from Cecil Hurt this morning. And it didn't say "expect him to retire". It was, however, a bit strange.

Would definitely root for Alabama if this was true

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I'll give you a couple hours to work on the link to it.

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CECIL HURT : Saban always ready for next challenge

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CECIL HURT: Saban always ready for next challenge

By Cecil Hurt - January 7, 2018

Nick Saban isn’t aiming for a place in history on Monday night. That has already been assured, regardless of how his 2017 team finishes its year against the Georgia Bulldogs. The Alabama coach, leading the Crimson Tide into an amazing sixth national championship game in nine years, is establishing a record that will stand far beyond the current playoff format. If he lifts the championship trophy Monday night, it will be the sixth time he has done so, the fifth at Alabama. The total would equal Paul “Bear” Bryant’s. The comparisons began long ago, although the only statement that can be made without debate is that Bryant dominated the poll era — when voters decided the national champion — and Saban has dominated the playoff era in both its two-team and four-team incarnation.

Georgia may win the game, of course. The teams are evenly matched, by design. The Bulldogs are healthy, having avoided Alabama’s hard luck, a run of significant injuries that has gone on for a year-and-a-half and sidelined such talents as Shaun Dion Hamilton (twice), Eddie Jackson, Bo Scarborough and now Anfernee Jennings, Lester Cotton and Dylan Moses. This seems like a charmed year for the Bulldogs with their close wins over Notre Dame and Oklahoma.

Despite all that, and perhaps on reputation alone, Alabama is the favorite. If the Crimson Tide wins, the victory will be treated as par for the course, not the extraordinary achievement it will be.

Getting to this point has been tougher for Alabama than people realize. We have reached a point where wins and even championships are greeted with a shrug.

Saban, in his pregame comments, showed that he knew it hasn’t been easy — but sounded philosophical about it.


“I think that I’m always looking for the next challenge,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s the way I was raised or whatever, that you’re kind of only as good as your last play, as your last game. I think everyone has heard me talk a lot about the fact that success is not a continuum, it’s momentary, and it’s human nature to get satisfied and get a little complacent when you have success.

“But in a competitive business like we are in, there’s always a next challenge, there’s always a next game, there’s always a better team to play. If you have that (complacent) mindset, you’re not going to be able to play with any consistency, and if you can’t play with consistency in performance, you’re not going to really have a lot of success long-term.

“You’re always ready for the next challenge, and you always understand that people are going to be a little bit satisfied, and you have to make sure that everyone is ready for the next challenge.”

At some point, the question will be whether Saban’s challenge is guiding the Alabama juggernaut year after year, or whether he will want to try something new, a challenge that doesn’t involve a constant struggle against complacency. The game against Georgia isn’t the time to confront that. Instead, Alabama has to face another challenger, to show that it learned from last year’s loss to Clemson. It has to show that manhandling the Tigers in a rematch was only part of proving that the failure, as Saban himself called it, was not wasted.

That will set up yet another rematch with complacency, a bridge that will have to be crossed once more if Alabama wins. But is there an alternative?

“I hate to lose,” Saban said again on Sunday. That should be enough of an answer.

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Does it say Saban to Texas or Saban to NFL?

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Saban to NFL Europe

Euro trash...figures.

This crap just never stops.

13 SEC would like to think so, it is not happening. They all said he would not be at Bama 5 years max, I would bet he coaches 3-5 more years. Keep a good thought, when he leaves others may have a shot at a National Title.

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I will be the biggest bama fan tonight and then probably kill myself when Dabo takes the job

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Why in the hell would Bama ever take that no talent arse clown?!?!

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luckiest coach ever

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Lucked his way to a 131-20 record at Alabama. 222-62-1 overall record.

5 national titles
8 conference titles
11 division titles

That's an amazing feat of luck.