This school soccer season might be a little bit completely different for Nick Saban.
The legendary soccer coach has turned in a single headset for an additional, making the transfer from teaching at Alabama to speaking in regards to the sport he has given a lot to as an analyst on ESPN. With the 2024 faculty soccer season embarking on the primary full Saturday slate of motion, the “Faculty GameDay” crew was down in Faculty Station — with Saban part of the panel — for as we speak’s broadcast forward of tonight’s highly-anticipated assembly between a pair of ranked groups in Notre Dame and Texas A&M.
And the dwelling legend appeared to take pleasure in each minute of it.
One such second got here when Saban was discussing roster constructing within the present state of faculty soccer, a second that had the producers reaching for the mute button, the FCC sensors elevating some eyebrows, and Kirk Herbstreit speculating that Saban had simply damaged the web:
“You guys hold speaking a couple of 20 million greenback roster. If you happen to do not pay the fitting guys, you may be shit out of luck.” – Nick Saban
“Congratulations- you simply broke the web.” – Kirk Herbstreit pic.twitter.com/MfGXau6gyh
— Terrible Asserting (@awfulannouncing) August 31, 2024
Later within the broadcast, Saban was singing Dirk Koetter’s praises, noting how he at all times tried to rent him at Alabama. That led to an unbelievable one-liner from Pat McAfee, and Saban cracking about “low budgets:”
“Dirk Koetter is likely one of the offensive coordinators I at all times tried to rent at Alabama, may by no means get him. He is at Boise. He’ll do a terrific job.” – Nick Saban
“That is ‘trigger you had been spending all of your cash in your gamers, coach.” – Pat McAfee pic.twitter.com/y0E8X2RgUY
— Terrible Asserting (@awfulannouncing) August 31, 2024
Lastly, the present got here to a detailed with the normal recreation picks for the featured contest, Notre Dame versus Texas A&M. That included a shirtless McAfee, Lee Corso dressed as a leprechaun, and Saban admitting that the present was “a lot enjoyable:”
Faculty GameDay in Faculty Station winds up with…
* A shirtless Pat McAfee
* Visitor picker Johnny Manziel
* Lee Corso dressed — and dancing — as a leprechaun
* Nick Saban (hugged by shirtless McAfee): “I’ve by no means been to something like this. That is a lot enjoyable.” ️ pic.twitter.com/DjKmYO4XwP— Terrible Asserting (@awfulannouncing) August 31, 2024
If that is simply the primary week of the season, think about what awaits.