Nick Saban Opens Up on His Coaching Past in Emotional Confession After $115M Revelation Alabama is trying to reclaim itself under Kalen, while Nick Saban watches from the outside, reflective, nostalgi

Do the players miss the GOAT as much as he misses the sidelines and the gridiron? In a perfect world, if not for NIL, Nick Saban would still have his headset on, dictating tempo and matchups instead of sitting behind a microphone. But it’s not a perfect world, not for the man who built Bama into the SEC’s axis of dominance, and certainly not for the Alabama Crimson Tide today, dropped at No. 19 under Kalen DeBoer after a humbling loss to Florida State. Sure, a 73-point avalanche over unranked Louisiana-Monroe gave Bama a worked as a confidence gatherer, but does it really matter? And when you look at the state of the program, you wonder if Saban doesn’t watch the Tide and quietly itch for a comeback.

As of now, that’s not going to happen. What Nick Saban admitted recently cuts deeper