One of the most decorated head coaches in college football, Nick Saban, is now moving ahead in his life, leaving a legacy of college football behind. Throughout his incredible career, he had won seven national championships and with Alabama Crimson Tide, he won six of them.
He is now preparing for his next role as an ESPN analyst and will cover the NFL Draft for the network. He will also take over as an analyst on SEC football coverage and College GameDay. In an extensive interview with the network, Saban revealed that he has been analyzing and watching footage in order to get ready for the draft, among other things.
The former head coach has now been focusing on his life outside of college football and he is discovering things that he had never experienced before as he was on a scheduled timeline.
According to Chris Low of ESPN, Saban mentions, “The biggest change for me as a person is that I lived my whole life for the last 50 years being in a hurry. It was, ‘Hurry up to go here. Hurry up to go there. Don’t be late for this meeting. You’ve got another meeting in an hour. What are you going to say to the staff? What are you going to say to the team?’ I mean, it was just deadline after deadline after deadline. Even when I was driving to the lake to go on vacation, I’d be in a hurry, and for what? But that’s just how you were built.”
The head coach is now spending more time with his family and his wife, Terry also wrote him a letter, “The Ten Commandments of Retirement,” underscoring the changes he could follow in his everyday life after retiring.
Terry Saban also shared that the former head coach is also moving up his game in technological areas; she says that he is “texting and reading his own emails and sent his first-ever email”. She also shared that Saban, “took his first trip to the pharmacy to pick up his first prescription. He’s actually quite proud of himself.”
Saban will also have a small office on the campus to observe the college football program. The five-time SEC Coach of the Year, also expressed that he wants to “be a resource for the university”. He mentioned, “I want to bring the least amount of attention to me being around here as possible. So I want to be supportive. I want to be helpful, but I don’t want to be looking over anybody’s shoulder”. His new office will be located above the south end zone of Bryant-Denny Stadium.
