{"id":258254,"date":"2025-10-29T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258254\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:40:15","slug":"rece-davis-on-nick-saban-coming-out-of-retirement-to-coach-lsu-id-very-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258254\/","title":{"rendered":"Rece Davis on Nick Saban coming out of retirement to coach LSU: &#8216;I&#8217;d very surprised&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether serious or not, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/nick-saban-133646\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Saban<\/a> is going to be a popular name throughout the upcoming coaching carousel. Especially with a job like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/lsu-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LSU<\/a> open, a place Saban spent five seasons and won a national championship. You certainly know people in Baton Rouge would take him back, even after watching the success in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>But would Saban want the job? ESPN\u2019s Rece Davis is not convinced after working with Saban for a couple of years on College GameDay now. Davis acknowledged some jokes have been made on the matter but ultimately, Saban is happy with his decision to retire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be very surprised,\u201d Davis said via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/finebaum\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Paul Finebaum Show<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think so. Hopefully, he\u2019s having a great time with us at College GameDay. I think he\u2019s very comfortable in his own skin and with what he\u2019s accomplished and with the decision he made at the end at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a>\u2026 I don\u2019t think he will go back to coaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the hypothetical game was played by Davis. Many believe Saban got out of coaching due to the modern world of college football, where a lot of emphasis is placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/nil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NIL<\/a>. Players can move at will through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/transfer-portal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA transfer portal<\/a> as well. Quite different than when Saban took over LSU in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Davis thinks Saban would fit right in and find a way to adapt. Coaching through different eras, no task would be too tall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he did, he\u2019d be fantastic,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI think we\u2019d all know that. I don\u2019t believe for a second \u2014 you hear people say sometimes, \u2018Well, he couldn\u2019t handle the new environment.\u2019 That\u2019s a bunch of garbage. He can handle any environment, he\u2019s shown that. I think he\u2019s very comfortable doing what he\u2019s doing right now and working in this business and working with us. And I certainly hope so, anyway, because we love having him on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/lsu-tigers-football-coaching-search-names-to-know-timelines-to-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the latest information on the LSU coaching search<\/a> from On3\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/petenakos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Nakos<\/a>. Plenty of top names will be linked to the job before athletic director Scott Woodward makes a final decision. After all, LSU is one of the top destinations in college football.<\/p>\n<p>Saban will be in Salt Lake City on Saturday with College GameDay. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/ute-nation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Utes<\/a> are set to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/cincinnati-bearcats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bearcats<\/a> in a big-time Big 12 showdown. Davis expects to have Saban on set in the weeks and maybe even years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether serious or not, Nick Saban is going to be a popular name throughout the upcoming coaching carousel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-258254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}