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Alabama Football: 3 reasons 2019 will be Nick Saban’s last season

By Brian Miller

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Miami Dolphins Head Coach, Nick Saban, during the game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday November 20, 2005 at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The Browns shutout the Dolphins 22-0. (Photo by Jamie Mullen/NFLPhotoLibrary)
Miami Dolphins Head Coach, Nick Saban, during the game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday November 20, 2005 at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The Browns shutout the Dolphins 22-0. (Photo by Jamie Mullen/NFLPhotoLibrary) /

1. Wants to prove he can succeed in the NFL

Nick Saban has publicly stated that he’s not interested in returning to the NFL, but as much as we’d love to believe him it’s a bit hard to take him at his word when he famously told the press back in 2006, “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.”

Long story short, what he’s said to media about not wanting to coach in the NFL means absolutely nothing and he could just as easily become the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as abruptly as he became the head coach at Alabama.

If Saban has anything left to prove it’s undoubtedly going to be in the NFL. As dominant as he’s been in college, he never even came close to matching that level of success when he was in Miami.

This is no small thing to someone as competitive as Saban and you can only imagine how much he hates the widely held opinion that he never had what it took to win in the NFL. After all, he finished just above .500 with Dolphins and that’s a far cry from hoisting a Lombardi Trophy.

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At the end of the day, if Saban is serious about proving that he has what it takes to win a Super Bowl then now is the time to do it.

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