The future of legendary football coach Nick Saban has become a major talking point. After stepping away from the college football ranks with the Alabama Crimson Tide, Saban took last season off and was part of the media coverage of the game.
While he seemed to enjoy his time as an analyst, the itch to return to the sideline might be something that Saban can’t ignore much longer.
Keeping that in mind, the question has become, where could Saban target for his return to coaching?
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Could he return to college football and continue his dominance at another school? Would he consider making the leap to the professional level in the NFL?
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Saban has coached two seasons in the NFL. Those two seasons came back in the 2005 and 2006 campaigns with the Miami Dolphins.
Unfortunately for Saban, those two years did not go very well. He ended up with a 15-17 record and quickly departed back to college football.
Is it possible that he would want to redeem himself in the NFL and give it one more go?
That is what fellow legendary college head coach Urban Meyer could see happening. He recently spoke out about Saban’s coaching future and revealed his thoughts on the matter.
“I have not talked to him about this, I could guess — because I know him fairly well and competed against him — that it’s not a little scratch, it’s probably a pretty big scratch,” Meyer said. “That’s the one area that he has not [conquered]… I don’t think he’d go back to college. I don’t see that fit.”
Meyer continued on, sharing that he believes Saban would take calls from NFL teams looking to hire him.
“I would say very little to no chance he would get involved in college,” Meyer continued. “But I think he would take phone calls from the NFL.”
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There are very few college football head coaches who have had more success than Saban. To go along with his seven national championships, Saban compiled a career 292-71-1 overall record. At Alabama, he finished with a stunning 201-29 record.
It’s possible that Saban could simply stay retired. But, if the itch is getting to him and the NFL comes calling, that might be a potential fit for him in the future.
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