WIFE DOESN’T
want Saban around the house.
ATLANTA — There’s some bad news for 13 SEC head football coaches.
Nick Saban, the 66-yearold Alabama coach who has won five national championships in his 11 years with the Crimson Tide, has no plans to retire any time soon.
Asked whether he might become only the second 70-year-old SEC head coach behind Steve Spurrier, or whether his wife, Terry, might have other ideas, Saban went for the punchline first.
“Well, let me say this,” Saban said Wednesday during SEC football media days. “Mrs. Terry doesn’t want me at home. I can tell you that. She doesn’t care if I’m 60, 70 or 80. So she’s looking for something for me to do.”
Then Saban launched into the heart of the matter.
“Now, I really enjoy what I’m doing right now, and as long as I’m healthy and I can do it, I’m going to continue to do it and not worry about any numbers or what my age is or anything like that,” he said. “But I would not want to be in the position where I ever rode the program down because I wasn’t capable of making a contribution that would be positive to the success of the program.
“So I’m going to continue to do this for as long as
I feel like I can make a positive contribution and as long as I feel healthy enough to do it. And, you know, our noon-time basketball team was undefeated again this year, so that’s always an indicator to me that I can make it through another season.”