Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban has words for Mercer linebacker Jordan Williams (40) as he leaves the field Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Bryant-Denny Stadium. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Alabama Vs Mercer

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]

About Sean Keeley

Along with writing for Awful Announcing and The Comeback, Sean is the Editorial Strategy Director for Comeback Media. Previously, he created the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and wrote 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse-related things for SB Nation, Curbed, and other outlets. He currently lives in Seattle where he is complaining about bagels. Send tips/comments/complaints to sean@thecomeback.com.