{"id":500584,"date":"2025-11-05T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/500584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:20:10","slug":"verge-ausberry-shoots-down-idea-of-nick-saban-becoming-next-lsu-coach-miss-terrys-not-gonna-let-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/500584\/","title":{"rendered":"Verge Ausberry shoots down idea of Nick Saban becoming next LSU coach: ‘Miss Terry’s not gonna let him’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the rumor mill churns about whether Nick Saban<\/a> could return to coaching at LSU<\/a>, the Tigers\u2019 interim athletics director shot down that chatter. Verge Ausberry said he does not believe Saban will return to the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Ausberry told Matt Moscona on ESPN Baton Rouge that he talks to Saban regularly and gets the sense the legendary coach will not coach again. He also joked Miss Terry would have something to say about Saban thinking about getting back in the game.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Ausberry wanted to get in front of the rumors about whether Saban could replace Brian Kelly<\/a> in Baton Rouge. In fact, if he did want to come back, Ausberry said he\u2019d personally escort him back to campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick Saban and I have a standing conversation probably every two to three weeks,\u201d Ausberry said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re good friends, first of all. A person that I admire a lot. Coach Saban was joking. No way he\u2019s coming back to football, okay? Miss Terry\u2019s not gonna let him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not gonna happen. Let\u2019s get that out of the way soon, because if he was and he was interested, I will go drive and pick him up right now and bring him back. \u2026 I think that has run its course, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

In what\u2019s shaping up to be a historically active coaching carousel, there\u2019s been plenty of speculation about whether Saban could leave retirement and come back. The former LSU and Alabama<\/a> coach is in his second year on ESPN\u2019s College GameDay and won an Emmy for his performance in his debut season in 2024.<\/p>\n

But that hasn\u2019t stopped the rumor mill from churning. LSU legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal added to it this week, stating the Tigers were having conversations with Saban<\/a> about the opening. But while speaking with On3\u2019s Chris Low<\/a> last week, the legendary coach said he has not felt the temptation<\/a> to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not good for player development. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s good for anything, just the direction we\u2019re headed,\u201d Saban said of the current landscape. \u201cWe\u2019re letting G League players come play in college? Pretty soon, we\u2019re going to have the New York Giants\u2019 backup quarterback not getting enough development, so we\u2019re going to send him to Penn State or somewhere else for a year to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy, absolutely crazy. Why not make these kids professionals, treat them like professionals and collective bargain the whole thing?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the rumor mill churns about whether Nick Saban could return to coaching at LSU, the Tigers\u2019 interim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,11973],"class_list":{"0":"post-500584","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-nick-saban-69-monongah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115494232614723654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}