Saban not thinking about retiring

Sorry, college football fans. Nick Saban is still going strong and plans on doing that for a long time to come.

Arguably the greatest coach in the game’s history, Saban isn’t even close to contemplating retirement, according to ESPN college football writer Chris Low.

“Nick took it a step further with me saying, ‘It’s something I couldn’t even imagine, me not coaching football,”’ Low said on “The Paul Finebaum Show” recently. “So I think the guy is going to coach well into his 70s.”

Saban is a spry 66 years old as he prepares for his 12th season in charge in Tuscaloosa and, with another six or seven years as successful as the last 11, he would possibly come close to a record that Low never thought would even get close to being touched.

“I used to always think that the most unbreakable record in the realm of SEC football was Paul Bear Bryant’s 159 SEC wins. I don’t think it is completely out of the realm of possibility that Nick would coach long enough where he’d have a shot to make a run at that.”

Saban currently sits at 100 wins in SEC play during his time at LSU and Alabama, and each offseason, the rumors start to grow that him leaving the Crimson Tide is nearing. For Low, what people don’t see in the coach is what makes the decision to stay in Alabama easy.

“Here is the thing that Nick has talked to me about that we all underappreciate: his life now is in Alabama. His mom is in Birmingham. He has a granddaughter there. He’s got interest in all of the dealerships there. His life, not just football, but his life is right there in Alabama now.”