Nick Saban stretches with players at youth football camp
Nick Saban, at 71 years old, can still get a good stretch in. The Alabama football coach was looking quite spry while joining in on the stretches at a football camp he was running on Tuesday.
In a video shared by ESPN’s Chris Low, Saban was down on the field with the campers and repping out what looks to be a core and lower body stretch. And Saban was moving better than a majority of his peers, age-wise, and even better than some folks that are decently younger than him.
“Nick Saban is hardly just a figurehead at his annual youth football camp. The standard remains the same as it does for his [Alabama] players,” Low wrote.
Saban is no stranger to getting in on some calisthenics or stretching. In December, ahead of the Sugar Bowl, cameras captured the Crimson Tide head coach going through stretching with his team and getting loose on the Superdome turf.
“If these parents are going to pay the money for their kids to come to camp, then we owe it to them to give them the full Alabama experience, to teach them and coach them the right way,” Saban said to ESPN.
All told, more than 1,000 kids, ranging from ages 8 to 13, attended the camp. It was probably worth Saban stretching just to be ready for the handshake and picture with each and every camper on hand.
Campers weren’t the only people Saban has been meeting lately
New Alabama baseball coach Rob Vaughn has arrived in Tuscaloosa and has met several members of the Crimson Tide athletics department.
Vaughn met and talked with Alabama football coach Nick Saban on Monday. It’s safe to say that was a pretty cool moment for Vaughn.
“I got to meet Coach Saban yesterday,” Vaughn told the media on Tuesday, according to On3’s Charlie Potter. “I almost passed out in there. That was one of the most intimidating things I’ve been a part of.”
While it may have been intimidating, Nick Saban is obviously a pretty good coach for Rob Vaughn to learn from after coming over from Maryland. Saban has won seven national championships, as well as 10 SEC titles. Even for college head coaches in other sports, he’s a big-time name to meet and talk with.
Vaughn held a press conference on Tuesday after officially being named the head coach on Monday.
He is replacing the outgoing Brad Bohanon, who was fired amid a betting scandal earlier this season. Interim coach Jason Jackson took over and led the Crimson Tide to the Super Regional this season.