Nick Saban has now been retired from coaching the Alabama Crimson Tide for just over a year. In that short time, the sport has evolved dramatically. In fact, college football was already undergoing significant changes just before he decided to hang up his whistle.

Nick Saban is highly regarded as one of, if not, the best college football coach of all-time. His seven national championship titles, one with the LSU Tigers and six with the Alabama Crimson Tide, is the most by any coach ever in FBS history.

Nick Saban said on The Pivot Podcast that if he had to choose today, he'd prefer to coach in the NFL over college football because of the sport's