Where will Nick Saban coach next?

[Milo-of-Croton]

It takes a lot of energy and effort to turn around a struggling program. You have to change hearts and minds (losers mentality, buy in), get the team fundamentally sound, coach the assistant coaches so everyone is on the same page offensively and defensively, and off-season work (strength, conditioning, teaching, etc.). As a head coach, you don’t get to have bad days. High energy, constantly selling yourself and your vision. That is just high school. Add recruiting and all the other crap that comes with college like the glad handing, the gatherings, the speeches.

All that said, not a chance I would take a head coaching gig (if I were Saban) that isn’t already a winner. You are starting with a good hand, easier to get to a great hand. But, that’s just me.

 

[V-Doub]

I think this is really just a bunch of shit:

1. Saban turns 74 in a few months.
2. That means at the minimum he would be coaching somewhere new while turning 75.
3. I don't believe Saban has it in him to take over a rebuilding task at his age.
4. I don't see an Elite program hiring a man who will be 75 or older while coaching.

An NFL job might be plausible though.

Everything but that last sentence. NFL is ultra competitive with very little talent disparity from team to team. No way he risks his swan song on the crap shoot that is the NFL. Saban only takes a job that he is 90+% sure he can win a championship in 2-3 years. And that type of job and talent disparity only exists at the college level.

 

[V-Doub]

It takes a lot of energy and effort to turn around a struggling program. You have to change hearts and minds (losers mentality, buy in), get the team fundamentally sound, coach the assistant coaches so everyone is on the same page offensively and defensively, and off-season work (strength, conditioning, teaching, etc.). As a head coach, you don’t get to have bad days. High energy, constantly selling yourself and your vision. That is just high school. Add recruiting and all the other crap that comes with college like the glad handing, the gatherings, the speeches.

All that said, not a chance I would take a head coaching gig (if I were Saban) that isn’t already a winner. You are starting with a good hand, easier to get to a great hand. But, that’s just me.

If these reports have validity… (they may, IDK) And Saban returns to coaching, it will only be to an almost ready made team. (OSU, USC, Mich, Georgia, Texas or maybe Alabama…?) As I said above, this is his swan song, his magnum opus, his finale. He’s only taking a job that he believes he can win a championship in 2-3 years. No other schools need apply. (or NFL)

 

[Alcaus]

Dude's willing to do anything to get away from McAfee.

The above ($54.5M) is if Nebraska fires Rhule. What you listed is what schools would owe their coaches upon termination. And I can't imagine any coach signing a contract with the buyouts you listed.

Unless it's been reworked, and not public knowledge, Rhule leaves on his own and it's the following:


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Just as a hypothetical, what would it be considered if Nebraska decided to fire Rhule and hire Saban at the end of the season?

That's all I was attempting to show; how much a school would have to pay their existing coach to hire Saban in 2026.