On Tuesday, Alabama head football coach Nick Saban released a PSA to fans sharing both coronavirus and hope. Two days later in an interview with ESPN’s Chris Low, Saban opens up about how he has had to change his coaching regime, and how he’s handling being cooped up in his house.
“Anybody who knows me knows I’m not a sit-around kind of guy,” Saban told Low. “Drives me crazy to even think about it. But a lot of us in this country are going to have to adjust to doing things differently, and that includes me.”
“It’s crazy, unlike anything any of us have ever experienced, and we need to remember that it goes a lot deeper than just football and sports that are impacted,” Saban said. “Our world has been turned upside down. You just figure out the best way to manage what you can do. There’s nothing else you can do.”
Saban, like many other coaches across the country have had to rely on technology to not only have meetings with other coaches, but to also keep their players on track with everything from daily nutrition to workouts and grades.
As Low shared, “Several schools in the SEC, including Alabama, had hoped to use video conferencing and other technology such as Zoom to do a virtual spring practice and workouts with players. But even that’s on hold for the time being, as SEC presidents and chancellors voted to suspend all athletic activities, including practices, meetings and other organized activities, through April 15.”
There’s no telling what the future holds, especially since Alabama decided on March 26th to finish the school year from home. The unknown of the future is one of the hardest things for everyone to deal with, including Nick Saban himself.
“None of us know what’s going to happen after April 15,” Saban said. “We’ll stay connected, the coaches, and work on next year’s opponents and stay in as close touch with our players as we can and keep recruiting as best we can. We’ll do the best we can with what we’ve got, and I’m sure it’s going to keep on changing.”
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