FOX News: ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE Tuberville thinks NIL played role in Nick Saban's retirement: 'I saw it coming' Saban's 7 national titles are the most ever for a coach Ryan Morik By Ryan Morik Fox News Published January 25, 2024 6:21am EST https://www.foxnews.com/sports/tuberville-thinks-nil-played-role-nick-sabans-retirement-i-saw-it-coming.amp
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Tuberville thinks NIL played role in Nick Saban's retirement: 'I saw it coming'
Saban's 7 national titles are the most ever for a coach
Ryan Morik By Ryan Morik Fox News
Published January 25, 2024 6:21am EST
After 17 seasons at Alabama and coaching in some capacity since 1971, Nick Saban finally called it a career earlier this month.
Saban retired shortly after the end of the college football season as a seven-time national champion - six with Alabama, and one with LSU.
Saban, 72, left the sport as NIL has become much more prominent, a phenom unimaginable even a decade ago.
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Nick Saban coaches in the CFP
Alabama head coach Nick Saban reacts after running back Jase McClellan, #2, scored a touchdown during the second half of the Rose Bowl CFP NCAA semifinal college football game against Michigan on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong, File)
Several notable names in the sport, like Reggie Bush, have said NIL played a role in Saban's retirement, and former college coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., agrees.
"I kinda saw it coming. He never mentioned it, but he and I have been working on an NIL bill, along with a lot of other coaches and [athletic directors] for the last couple years, and he just got tired of it," the senator said on OutKick's "Dont @ Me with Dan Dakich."
However, with being the coach with the most college titles, Tuberville says there was not much else Saban needed to do from the sidelines.
Nick Saban in Georgia
Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban looks on before the SEC Championship game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Dec. 4, 2021 in Atlanta. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
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"It wasn't just NIL - I think he had gotten to a point where he wanted to do maybe something else. He accomplished so much," he said.
"I hate to see him go from college sports. I think he will stay active in some way, I don't know what it is. But man, the success he had, it will never be duplicated - in our lifetime, anyway."
Saban boasts an all-time record of 292-71-1 at the college level, including a 19-12 record in bowl games and a 9-5 record in the College Football Playoff. At Alabama, he went 206-29.
Nick Saban waves
Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban celebrates after the SEC Championship Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide on Dec. 2, 2023, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. (Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Nine of Saban's 11 SEC titles came with the Crimson Tide, and his 292 wins are the fifth-most in Division I history.
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