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Nick Saban has never sent a text message

By Austin Belisle

Dec 30, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban at the media day for the 2015 Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban at the media day for the 2015 Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports /
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Don’t send Nick Saban a text message before Alabama‘s College Football Playoff game with Ohio State this week, he doesn’t know how to send a reply.

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Nick Saban is arguably one of the greatest college football coaches ever. In his tenure at Alabama, he’s won three national championships and led his team to 91 victories in 8 seasons. He consistently recruits the nation’s most talented players and has returned Alabama to glory and into a perennial championship contender.

Saban has made coaching look easy, but still can’t figure out to send a text message.

At Tuesday’s Sugar Bowl Media Day, Saban told reporters that he’s never sent a text message.

“We didn’t have all this stuff when I grew up,” Saban said, via USA Today. “I sort of respect the fact that that’s the way of the world now. I know that a lot of our players can’t function without being able to be in constant communication with anything and everybody. When I was a kid … you had to learn how to communicate with people and look ‘em in the eye. You had to speak to them and talk to them. It wasn’t about sending a text message or an email or whatever…. I do get text messages, and I do read them. I just don’t know how to send them back.”

If you aren’t “LOLing” now, maybe you’re saying “WTF”. In a world where almost everyone has a cell phone, text messaging is the new norm for communication. His players probably spend a lot of their times on their iPhones, browsing Instagram, sending texts, or updating their Facebook pages, but Saban refrains from all forms of digital communication, even email.

“[My wife] and I go somewhere on a weekend, and she gets 387 emails. I say, how many did I get? She says, none. Then, she spends the next day answering 387 emails, and I spend the next day hopefully doing something that’s more productive. If you don’t send any, you don’t get any,” Saban said.

Now more than ever, Saban is focused on one thing, and that’s football. He’s intensely passionate about the sport, and it shines through when his team regularly dominates opponents on Saturday afternoons in Autumn. If his Crimson Tide defeat Ohio State this week, send Nick a handwritten letter congratulating him on the accomplishment.

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