Why would Nick Saban retire anytime soon when he’s a decade younger than presidential candidates?

Is it more stressful being the president of the United States or the head football coach at Alabama?

I’ve thought a lot about Nick Saban lately. Even more so than usual. I’ve seen the tweets and the blogs wondering if Saban has lost his magic touch and speculation the Alabama dynasty is crumbling like the Ottoman Empire following the Armistice of Mudros.

This stems from Alabama missing the College Football Playoff for the first time last season and was re-ignited following the departure of strength coach Scott Cochran to Georgia, where he took less money, just to get away from the boss he had since 2007.

And all of this leads us to our annual question of how much longer Saban will coach before he decides to retire and hang up his whistle and straw hat.

First, I don’t think Saban is close to retiring.

Second, I hope he coaches forever.

But here’s why I don’t think the 68-year-old Saban is going anywhere in the near future.

You may have heard it’s an election year.

You may have also heard the two leading Democratic candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are 77 and 78, respectively. They’re running against 73-year-old President Donald Trump, who was the oldest first-term president when he was elected in 2016.

So with the most important job in the country, and one of the most important in the entire world, being filled by and applied for by near-octogenarians, why can’t Saban coach for another decade at Alabama?

Forget about retirement. He’s just getting started.

The stress level is high when you’re a college football coach, especially when you’re the coach at Alabama, but unlike presidents who turn gray within four years, Saban looks like he could easily pass for someone a decade younger.

It’s ridiculous. It’s totally unfair how well he is aging. Forget about fine wines. I want to age like Nick Saban.

Saban did have hip replacement surgery in 2019, which is the only sign he’s shown of aging, but he was quick to recover. Turns out, the ultra-competitive Saban doesn’t like to sit idly by as he lets his body heal.

It got him in trouble with his wife, Miss Terry, but when he looks into the crystal ball to envision life as a retiree, it wasn’t something he was tolerating in comments to the Montgomery Advertiser.

“That’s not something that I enjoy, and that’s not something I really want to do anytime soon, I’ll tell you that,” Saban said after repeating the joke about how his wife, Miss Terry, threatened to call the cops after she caught him up and walking around just six hours into his first day out of the hospital. “I just enjoy so much being part of a team, I enjoy the relationships. To have (former Alabama receiver) Julio Jones come back the first two days I was doing rehab on my hip and he was there doing it (with me).

Saban’s competitors want him to retire yesterday. It’ll give some other SEC teams a chance to compete for a change. Fans never root for teams once they get to the top of the mountain. They want to root for the fall of the empire. They want to see the giants fall to their knees.

Saban will retire at Alabama.

It just may not be for another decade.

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