The Latest Breaking News from Nick Saban

ATLANTA — Nick Saban once famously declared that good defense no longer beats good offense in college football. That’s why Saban hired a series of coordinators to modernize Alabama’s offense and recruited quarterbacks and skill players to make plays. Then Georgia’s great defense beat Alabama’s great offense for the 2021…

The iconic loss also made the legendary Alabama coach consider stepping away from coaching.

The former college football coach and Alabama senator is drafting a bill with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin aimed at taming the chaotic NIL landscape.

The comments come after the Crimson Tide went 12–1 in the regular season and won the SEC championship game.

Thirty-five years of sports writing teaches you to enter any team’s preseason Media Day prepared to hear mostly rehearsed overcoached platitudes (translation: boring quotes).

Whether they’re taking over a new program or feeling the pressure at an old one, these names are ones to watch this fall.

Matt Eberflus sometimes likes to dust off a Lou Holtz quote that he has kept in mind during his 30-year career climb to become the Chicago Bears head coach.

Training camps are here, and that’s my annual cue to rise and shine and try to get the lay of the land. Seems I missed a few things.

The Aggies have the single toughest assignment in Mountain West non-conference play this fall: Keep the Crimson Tide from rolling.