Alabama head football coach Nick Saban said during an interview on Thursday that he decided to bring his illustrious coaching career to an end because it was becoming increasingly difficult to live up to the performance standard that he had set as he continues to age.
The hard-charging 72-year-old, who made his decision to retire on Wednesday, will be remembered as arguably the greatest college football coach of all-time, finishing his career with seven national championship titles, more than any other coach.
“The thing that made it more difficult for me, is I felt like it might be the right time for me, but how it impacted the players, the coaches, all the people who work here in the building and contributed to the success of the team, how would it affect them?” Saban said in the ESPN interview. “That was the hard part and that was the part that I kept vacillating on.”
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