Raise your hands out there if you think Alabama head coach Nick Saban needs advice.
{Crickets.}
Yeah, me too. I doubt seriously the Leader of The Process, who came back to college football in 2008 after not doing swimmingly as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, only to show all of us how to properly build the premier program the last decade and a half needs anyone to tell him how to get the job done.
But ESPN’s Alex Scarborough does just that in this excellent piece (https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38246695/how-nick-saban-alabama-retake-sec-georgia-college-football-2023) where Scarborough explains how Saban can get the Tide back on top in the Southeastern Conference.
I’ll say this: I was sitting front-row ringside for Saban, Georgia coach Kirby Smart and just about all the coaches’ addresses for the SEC Media Days in Nashville, and if photographer-popularity is any gauge, then Saban is still the king of the mountain. The photographers were tripping all over themselves to get positioned for the leader of the Crimson Tide before he hit the stage – that didn’t happen when Smart came out, although Smart is well-spoken, to be sure, and has a chance to lead the Bulldogs to the fabled three-peat this fall.
Saban’s biggest problem, or at least question, appears to be at quarterback, where he has the most doubt the Tide have had in years: they have no proven player there after the departure of Bryce Young.
