Donald Trump continues praise of former Alabama football coach Nick Saban

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President Donald Trump continues to praise former Alabama football coach Nick Saban.

In an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday, Nov. 11, Trump said he’s gotten to know Saban since he brought the Crimson Tide to the White House after securing a national championship in the 2017 season. Trump said he knows Saban “well,” calling the now-ESPN college football analyst “a fantastic guy” and “a great coach.”

But Trump pointed to something larger when speaking about Saban.

“He won a lot and I got to know him,” Trump said. “He’s a fantastic guy, and you know he’s somebody they should really get involved in college sports in terms of making sure it all works out because what’s happening it looks like it’s not working out too well. Colleges, for most of the people, a lot of the lesser sports are being totally terminated, you know that, it’s a shame. It was almost like a training ground for the Olympics, and a lot of those training grounds are being lost. And you know, Nick knows this stuff better than anybody. He’d be, and he’s really active in it. I think they ought to let Nick Saban take a good, strong look at it, and we all, I could tell you, from my standpoint, I’d listen to what Nick has to say.”

Saban introduced Trump when the President spoke at the University of Alabama’s special spring commencement ceremony in May.

“Nick (Saban), what a great coach. Let’s bring him back,” Trump told the Coleman Coliseum crowd. “No, you have a good coach right now, though. You have a good coach right now.”

Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

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