Alabama football: Tommy Tuberville makes eye-opening Nick Saban claim
Nick Saban’s decision to come to Alabama was influenced by Tommy Tuberville’s achievements at Auburn.
Earlier this month, Nick Saban announced his retirement from Alabama football, ending his tenure. This season, the Crimson Tide advanced far in the College Football Playoffs, but they were defeated by Michigan, the ultimate national winner, in the Rose Bowl.Now, Washington has lost Kalen DeBoer to Alabama. While not many anticipated Saban’s departure at the end of this season, Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach and senator from Alabama, did.
“Don’t think I don’t tell him that quite often,” Tuberville said. “We had some great games.”
Now, Tuberville is a senator in Alabama, and after the success that he had against the Crimson Tide, there was some concern that he wouldn’t be able to get Alabama fans to vote for him. However, Tuberville actually gives
accepting responsibility for introducing Saban to the Crimson Tide. After he dismissed several of Alabama’s coaches and once defeated the team six straight times, Nick Saban was brought in to turn everything around. That is his plea to the electorate.
“I informed them that, first of all, you wouldn’t have Nick Saban because I fired the other people,” Tuberville went on. “When Nick came in, he changed the, I guess, the atmosphere in what Alabama had their possibilities of doing. He was the most qualified applicant.
He is proud of Tuberville’s remarkable run of victories versus Alabama. Additionally, he believes that it will be a long time before we see anything similar.
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