At 4 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, Nick Saban began a meeting with his Alabama football team, announcing a decision he’d made just minutes before. At 4:06 p.m., ESPN’s Chris Low tweeted the news to the masses.

Nick Saban spent his first year of retirement plenty busy. The former Alabama football coach spent his Saturdays in cities from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Columbus, Ohio and Dublin, Ireland, working as a analyst for ESPN's College GameDay.

A year after his retirement, former Alabama coach Nick Saban continues to defy predictions that he wouldn't stay long in Tuscaloosa. He's still here.

One Alabama analyst made a strong judgement on whether or not Crimson Tide football coaching legend Nick Saban made the right decision stepping away a year ago today.

The Green Bay Packers have been one of the better teams in the NFC throughout the 2024 season. Green Bay finished the regular season with a record of 11-6 but ended up finishing third in the NFC North division standings.

And despite Kirk Herbstreit and McAfee insisting that Saban loves the banter and was just joking, Gillis felt that Saban grew legitimately angry once he repeated the SEC joke and called the legendary head coach “Alabama Jones.” (Warning: The video contains strong language).

ESPN's 'College GameDay' coverage of the Orange Bowl was hit by an awkward technical blunder as ex-Alabama coach Nick Saban was interrupted by host Rece Davis

Coverage for the highly-anticipated Orange Bowl clash between Notre Dame and Penn State got off to a slightly rocky start on ESPN due to an unfortunate technical issue