The only question that Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban gets more than “do you think you can win another national championship this season?” is “when do you think you’ll retire?” The 70-year-old recently made it clear, once again, that it’s not happening anytime soon.
“I don’t really think about retiring,” Saban recently told “The Dan Patrick Show,” via On3. “I always think about what the heck am I going to do if I do retire? That’s a scary thought.
“There’s nothing that I want to do like some people want to go to Europe or go to Scotland and play golf and all that. I wouldn’t mind doing all that stuff, but I don’t have to quit my job to do it. I worry about what am I going to do if I don’t do this?”
Saban’s worry is less about finding a fun retirement hobby, like pickleball or woodwork, and more about ensuring that he’ll be able to scratch that competitive itch doing anything other than coaching football.
“When I say, ‘What am I going to do?’ I don’t mean play golf or whatever,” Saban added. “I mean, how are you going to get any kind of positive self-gratification or feeling of accomplishment when you’ve done something for so long that you like so much and then all of a sudden it’s not there? So that’s a good question. I don’t really have the answer to that one.”
So while retirement appears to be out of the question, for the time being, he’ll just have to focus on winning an eighth career national championship and seventh at Alabama instead.
[On3]