Nick Saban claims he caught a 180-pound fish recently

Alabama head coach Nick Saban has been keeping his time occupied lately by apparently catching monster-sized fish

There’s still a few more months before the college football season gets underway, so coaches have to keep some of their time occupied in a variety of ways. Alabama head coach Nick Saban met with the media on Tuesday, and he revealed how he has been keeping that time of his occupied before it’s time to get rolling with the 2015 season.

And, well, his revelation might not have been something that you’d expect to hear from him.

Apparently, Saban recently found himself in a fierce battle with a 180-pound Tarpon fish, and as with a lot of other things that he does, he came out on the winning end.

Saban: "We caught five tarpon last night at the pass, in like an hour. I caught one that was 180 pounds…six feet long."
— Barrett Sallee 🇺🇸 (@BarrettSallee) May 26, 2015

Six-feet long! 180 pounds!

Now while he’s one of the more intimidating presences in the game of college football, Nick Saban is not exactly the biggest man in the world. Reeling that bad boy in had to be one of the toughest physical battles of his life.

It indeed was, as he also revealed, but he used that power of that genius brain to get him through.

Saban says the tarpon got him a little bit, and threw him up against the boat.
— Barrett Sallee 🇺🇸 (@BarrettSallee) May 26, 2015

Saban on the fish: "I hung in there. It's called mental toughness."
— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) May 26, 2015

Your move, Urban Meyer.

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