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Jumbo Package: Saban not retiring any time soon, Nate Oats benching guys who don’t play D

Happy Tuesday, everyone. A Nick Saban quote made the rounds yesterday, and it will make you very happy.

“Everybody asks me when I wanna retire. Retire from what?” Saban asked, rhetorically. “I’m gonna jump into an empty abyss, aight, of what am I going to do? Because the very challenges that I talk about and the things in our profession that concern me — for you and for me both, in your game and our game — that’s what keeps me going. That’s why I get up every day. That’s why I can’t sleep at night sometimes.