West Virginia native Nick Saban’s stance on returning to college football with Mountaineers makes sense, says one radio host | Sporting News

West Virginia native Nick Saban doesnt want to return to coach college football for his home-state Mountaineers and WV Sports Nows Mike J.

Asti believes it makes all the sense in the world why.

Nick Saban not wanting to come out of retirement to coach WVU shouldnt be surprising.

Hes over 70 and has a bulletproof resume and legacy.

He doesnt need the stress of coaching his home state program at this point in his life, Asti wrote.

While Saban wont be returning himself, hell be helping with WVUs coaching search as he told Pat McAfee on December 2.

Pat McAfee says hes asked Nick Saban a thousand times and Saban will not return to coach the Mountaineers, but that he is interested in helping out at WVU, The Voice of Morgantown relayed.

On SIs Schuyler Callihan sees Saban and Jacksonville State head football coach Rich Rodriguez as the two primary names that come to mind with McAfee also helping his alma mater in their coaching search.

The name that immediately comes to mind, given McAfee's connection, is Nick Saban, who is a part of the ESPN College GameDay crew this season.

The Fairmont native retired from his post at Alabama at the end of the last season, but there could be a chance he returns to coaching.

Whether or not the legendary coach would be interested in the job or not remains to be seen, Callihan wrote.

McAfee could, however, be talking about someone else, too.

His former head coach at WVU, Rich Rodriguez, is taking Jacksonville State to the Conference-USA championship game this week and is one of the best coaches at the Group of Five level.

As more time passes, it looks likelier that Rodriguez is on WVUs radar.

Dont write off Glenn Schumann or Jimbo Fisher as potential options either, though..

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