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Yahoo
3 days ago
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Nick Saban return to coaching rumor: Daughter refutes speculation with social media post
Will Nick Saban return to coaching, or stay retired? According to his daughter, Kristen Saban, the Alabama football legend is staying retired. Ms. Saban wrote in a social media post/story to Instagram on Thursday: "He's not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you [laughing emotion] you had your time." Rumors about a return to coaching began when former Crimson Tide quarterback and current ESPN/ABC analyst Greg McElroy said Monday that "a very much in-the-know person" seemed to believe the seven-time national champion wasn't finished coaching. McElroy's comment and subsequent reaction spread across social media, various national sports media outlets, and was a topic at SEC media days in Atlanta. Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer, Georgia's Kirby Smart, Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin and LSU's Brian Kelly all commented on the rumor of Saban possibly returning. DeBoer said Wednesday: "He's one of the greatest to ever do it, so he's earned the right to do what he wants. I think the best part of what coach Saban is doing right now is, he's still involved in the game. He brings passion to it." Saban is set to enter his second year as an analyst for ESPN's College GameDay. While Nick Saban himself hasn't addressed the rumor, someone who seems far more likely "in the know" than McElroy or his source has now done so. This article originally appeared on Roll Tide Wire: Nick Saban daughter addresses rumor of his return to coaching
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nick Saban's Daughter Makes Coaching Career Announcement
Nick Saban's Daughter Makes Coaching Career Announcement originally appeared on The Spun. Nick Saban's daughter, Kristen, made an announcement regarding his coaching career this week. The daughter of the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide head coach officially responded to the comeback rumors on Thursday afternoon. Earlier this week, former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Greg McElroy fanned the rumor flames, with a telling comment. He suggested that Saban, who retired following the 2023 season, could return to coaching. He's since tried to walk back his comments, though. "All it is is like, 'People in the know tell Greg McElroy Saban's open to returning to the sideline,'' McElroy told On3's JD Pickell. 'Like, 'No, no, I didn't say that!' … It was literally like a throwaway line and none of us thought it was gonna take off the way it (did).' He continued. "All it is is like, 'People in the know tell Greg McElroy Saban's open to returning to the sideline,'' McElroy said. 'Like, 'No, no, I didn't say that!' … It was literally like a throwaway line and none of us thought it was gonna take off the way it (did).' McElroy knows what he did, though. You can't say someone in the know suggested that Saban might return to coaching and expect that it won't make headlines. On Thursday, Kristen Saban responded to them. Kristen Saban made it clear: her dad is not coming back. She posted a video on social media of her dad walking out of the tunnel with Alabama players, sparking some speculation. However, she quickly clarified. "Apparently some of y'all feel trolled by my last story of Nick's walkout," she wrote, referring to her dad by his first name. "He's not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you. You had your time." It seems like Saban is going to continue to stick with ESPN's "College GameDay" moving forward. Nick Saban's Daughter Makes Coaching Career Announcement first appeared on The Spun on Jul 17, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.
Daily Mail
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Nick Saban's daughter speaks out on rumors legendary coach is coming out of retirement
Nick Saban is not coming out of retirement, his daughter has insisted. Rumors swirled earlier this week that the seven-time national champion at Louisiana State and Alabama was eying a return to the sidelines a couple of years after his final season in Tuscaloosa. 'A very much in-the-know person that I have a lot of respect for and have spent a lot of time around, and just really, really admire – they seem to think Nick Saban is not done coaching,' former Crimson Tide quarterback Greg McIlroy sad on Monday's 'Mac and Cube' show in Birmingham. 'He's pretty adamant that he thinks Nick Saban will be coaching again.' Asked for his source, McIlroy opted against revealing too much but did emphasize this person is definitely a high-level college football insider. 'If it wasn't someone notable, I would never say a word,' McIlroy said. 'He is of firm belief that Nick Saban will coach in college football again.' But some would say there are no sources more reliable than Saban's own family and his daughter, Kristen, has refuted those claims. She posted a picture on her Instagram story of her dad walking onto the field with the caption: 'Damn, I miss this.' Fans thought she was fueling those claims that Saban was going to return to the sideline. But it seems she was not. 'Apparently, some of y'all feel trolled by my last story of Nick's walkout… he's not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you,' Kristen then said in another post. 'You had your time.' Saban retired after the 2023-24 college football season, which saw his Alabama team lose to the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl. Now a co-host on ESPN's College GameDay, Saban was replaced at Alabama by former Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer, who went 9-4 in his first season at the helm. Many speculated on social media that Saban's possible return was down to reports that Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order for NIL standards. Since 2021, and under pressure from states and the courts, the NCAA has allowed student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness (NIL). Student-athletes can now be compensated for merely showing up to play and can earn a profit for spokesperson gigs, clothing and autograph sales and more. Additionally, a legal ruling on June 6 allowed colleges to directly pay players via revenue sharing for the first time. The settlement of House v. NCAA marked the end of the NCAA's previous model of amateurism, in which athletes were not allowed to earn money while in school. Schools can now share up to $20.5million of their revenues with their athletes. The reports of an upcoming executive order come one day after a House subcommittee advanced a bill along party lines that would establish national standards for student-athlete sponsorships. Called the SCORE Act, the proposed legislation would supersede current state laws regulating NIL. The White House has not commented on the latest report of an NIL-related executive order, but President Trump has a long history of expressing interest in sports. He has attended many major sporting events, including several prominent college football games like the Army-Navy football game last December. Saban has been critical of the NIL funding in the past, largely because he was concerned about the effect on college football. The NIL era also has brought a rise to the transfer portal era, with thousands of students across all sports seeking to move schools - some of them for bigger paydays.
Fox News
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
Nick Saban's daughter shuts down unretirement rumors: 'You had your time'
Don't get your hopes up on Nick Saban returning to college football. Rumors about the legendary coach's potential comeback began earlier this week after former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy said on his radio show he was told by a source Saban may return in the future. McElroy acknowledged he did not believe it was true. Days later, Saban's daughter, Kristen, posted on her Instagram story a photo of her dad walking onto the field, captioning it, "Damn, I miss this." With the timing, fans thought it was a foreshadowing of a huge announcement. It was not. "Apparently, some of y'all feel trolled by my last story of Nick's walkout… he's not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you," Kristen said in another post on her story, via the New York Post. "You had your time." Saban surprisingly retired after the 2023-24 collegiate season, which ended in a Rose Bowl loss to the eventual national champion Michigan Wolverines. And the pay-for-play landscape that college sports has become seems to have played some role in his decision even if he has denied that in past interviews. "All the things I've believed in for all these years — 50 years of coaching — no longer exist in college athletics," Saban said shortly after he retired. "It always was about developing players, always been about helping people be more successful in life. "My wife even said to me — we have all the recruits over on Sunday with their parents for breakfast. She would always meet with the mothers and talk about how she was going to help impact their sons and how they would be well taken care of. She came to me right before I retired and said, 'Why are we doing this?' I said, 'What do you mean?' She said, 'All they care about is how much you're going to pay them. They don't care about how you're going to develop them, which is what we've always done. So why are you doing this?' "To me, that was sort of a red alert that we really are creating a circumstance here that is not beneficial to the young people, which is why I always did what I did. My dad did it, I did it. So, that's the reason I always like college athletics more than the NFL, because you had the opportunity to develop young people." Saban has since joined ESPN's "College GameDay" and has fought on Capitol Hill for regulating name, image and likeness (NIL) deals. He won seven national championships, the most ever by a head college football coach — one with LSU and six in Tuscaloosa. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Nick Saban daughter refutes rumor of Alabama football legend's return to coaching
Nick Saban is not returning to coaching. At least that is what his daughter Kristen Saban posted on Instagram July 17. Days after rumors swept across SEC media days that Nick Saban, the former Alabama football coach who led the Crimson Tide to six national championships, was considering a return to the sideline, Kristen Saban posted a video on her Instagram story of her father leading the Crimson Tide onto the field. Hours later, she posted a selfie with a caption clarifying her previous post. "Apparently some of y'all feel trolled by my last story of Nick's walkout," she wrote. "He's not coming back to coaching, hate to break it to you. You had your time." Current Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer addressed the rumor July 16 by saying Nick Saban can do what he wants to do. "He's one of the greatest to ever do it," DeBoer said. "So he's earned the right to do what he wants. I think the best part of what coach Saban is doing right now is he's still involved in the game. He's growing the game." Nick Saban's coaching rumor started when Greg McElroy, a former Alabama quarterback who is a college football analyst, told WJOX radio that a very much in-the-know person that I have a lot of respect for and have spent a lot of time around, and just really, really admire -- they seem to think Nick Saban is not done coaching." Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin echoed the prediction later saying "I don't think he's done." Nick Saban spent his first season of retirement as an analyst on ESPN's "College GameDay." Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@ or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter. This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Nick Saban daughter refutes Alabama football legend's return to coaching rumor
