Sportswriters across the country have been sharing poignant stories about retiring Alabama football coach Nick Saban. This isn’t one of those stories. On my first trip to Tuscaloosa while covering Tennessee in a previous job, I made the mistake of attempting to enter Bryant-Denny Stadium right around the same time as Saban’s Crimson Tide. Saban was nearing, yet Saban was already there. As in, Saban, the coach, was walking with his players through a sea of adoring fans toward Saban, the statue. Unfortunately, I happened to pause for too long between the statue of the coach and the actual coach,…
