Nick Saban doesn’t think he’ll be coaching anywhere other than Alabama up until he retires.
“No, I really don’t. I don’t see it ever happening, and I know every year somebody has me going somewhere else,” Saban told ESPN.com’s Chris Low in an interview when asked if he envisioned himself coaching anywhere else. “I think a lot of it isn’t just about the coaching part. What people don’t understand is they forget you’re a person. They forget you have a wife and two kids and a grandbaby, and they all live in Birmingham.
“They all work here. My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.”
Saban also talked about the expectations of coaching a program of Alabama’s caliber, and admitted that he can’t imagine it remaining this consistently successful forever.
“I know a day is coming where that standard can’t be met,” Saban said. “You cannot keep that up. There’s going to be some period of time where you’re not at that level. If you look at every coach’s record, it’s just not possible to sustain that level of success all the time.”
So no, it doesn’t sound as though Saban will ever be leaving Birmingham, though stranger things have happened. The rumors will still always be there for us, though.
