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Wednesday afternoon the sports world was shocked to hear that legendary Alabama head football coach Nick Saban is retiring.
The 72-year-old Saban coached the Crimson Tide to six National Championships. Before arriving in Tuscaloosa, Saban coached the LSU Tigers to a national championship.
This year, he led the team to an SEC Championship over Georgia and a College Football Playoff appearance. That ended with an overtime loss to Michigan in the Rose Bowl.
However, that loss doesn’t matter a whole lot in the grand scheme of Saban’s legacy. That was cemented a long, long time ago.

Nick Saban, who won six national titles at Alabama and is considered among the greatest college football coaches of all time, is retiring, sources told ESPN’s Chris Low.

Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban is reportedly retiring following the conclusion of the 2023 college football season, according to Chris Low of ESPN.
Saban coached 17 seasons at Alabama, where he won six national championships, including three during the College Football Playoff era. He won 217 games with the program, boasting an impressive 88.7% winning percentage and a 16-7 record in bowl games. His last game with the Crimson Tide was a loss against Michigan in this year’s Rose Bowl.
Saban, 72, is the fifth winningest coach in college football history, with 297 career wins.

To describe Pete Carroll as distinct is understated—remarkably, significantly, comically understated. There’s nothing about Carroll that isn’t distinct. He’s a football coach among thousands of football coaches—and a genre of one.
Let’s start with what it’s like to interview the longtime Seattle Seahawks architect and longtime coach–until Wednesday. The bat phone dings, summoning a journalist to the franchise’s lakefront headquarters. When they arrive, employees escort them to the second floor coaches’ wing.

Has New Orleans Saints coach Dennis Allen lost the locker room? In the eyes of general manager Mickey Loomis, the notion couldn’t be any further from the truth.
Loomis, after days of speculation, took time Wednesday to address the chatter that has followed Allen since Jameis Winston’s questionable call to pivot from his coach’s plan and score a one-yard touchdown late in the Saints’s 41–17 Week 18 blowout win over the Atlanta Falcons.

Alabama football coach Nick Saban has coached his last game.
ESPN’s Chris Low, who is Saban’s closest friend in the media, reported Wednesday afternoon that Saban will be retiring.

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OutKick reported in September that Saban was likely to retire after the 2023 or 2024 season, according to an exclusive interview with a good friend of Saban from back in his days as LSU’s coach from 2000-04.

For those who still don’t believe Tiger Woods will ever win again, let me ask you this … could you smoke a drive 300 yards from your knees, one of which was nearly chopped off three years ago in an automobile accident?
Didn’t think so! Tiger Woods can — and did — and he’s now a Masters favorite.
Side note: the first part is true. The second part is not. Don’t bet based on that.
Roll tape, courtesy of Barstool Sports:

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Seattle Seahawks fans knew this day was coming eventually. Coach Pete Carroll couldn’t go on forever, even though 14 years of near-limitless ability for reinvention seemed to imply that he would.
However, Carroll’s departure Wednesday took many in the Pacific Northwest and beyond by complete surprise. The Seahawks had gone 9-8 this year, nearly making a second straight postseason. Carroll continued to draw acclaim for his handling the team after the departure of quarterback Russell Wilson, who Seattle traded away in 2022.

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The legendary Alabama football coach has decided to call it a career
Legendary football coach Nick Saban has decided to call it a career, per reporting from ESPN.
Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide are coming off a loss to Michigan in the Rose Bowl, but a season that started with an auspicious loss to Texas at home. The Crimson Tide ripped off an eight-game win streak after that loss, including a win over Georgia in the SEC championship game.

Alabama coach Nick Saban is retiring, according to a Wednesday afternoon report from Chris Low of ESPN.
Saban, 73, is widely considered the greatest coach in college football history. He won seven national titles in his career–a split title in 2003 with LSU and six with the Crimson Tide.
In 2023, Alabama went 12-2, winning the SEC title but losing in the Rose Bowl to Michigan.
Such was the standard Saban set at Alabama that this season was considered a down year. He ended his career with the Crimson Tide with a ledger of 206-29, an .877 winning percentage.