Not every retirement is easy to cope with. In college football, Nick Saban ’s retirement has indeed been a historical event. Known as the GOAT of the sport, Lane Kiffin gave the former Alabama head coach the highest praise. “Coach Saban did it in an era where there were reduced scholarship numbers. He also did it in an era where you’re losing coaches left and right. He lost so many assistant coaches and just kept winning,” Kiffin said on Theo Von’s podcast.

Saban would have continued raging on the sidelines, calling plays, had NIL not entered the scene. Even before him, the ‘pay for play’ culture did not sit well with his wife, Terry Saban . She kind of put down the blinders from Saban’s eyes as he took the exit. And the retirement was bound to have side effects. Josh Pate c

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