The Nick Saban retirement news took the college football world by storm.

And while speculation has now looked to his potential replacement, let’s take a moment and look back at all the off-the-field memories he game college football fans. His time at the podium was sometimes intense, sometimes funny. Sometimes, it was both. No matter how you spin it, Saban was always entertaining.

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Whether he was questioning the, uuummm, content media threw against the wall or asking the media how he did at the podium, you never knew what Saban had to offer.

“Now you all scared to ask another question?”

He coined phrases that made their way into the college football lexicon, like rat poison, process, s-word through a tinhorn and we’re 6-foot under already just to name a few.

Saban lectured fans on “Hey Coach.”

“When I came here, everybody was happy to win a game,” he preached. “Now, we’re not happy to win a game anymore. … We think we should win games by whatever.”

He solicited business leaders about NIL. He compared playing a season of football to being married. Everyone’s excited at the start, then they realize they have to work at it. Saban vented about extracting information from a Coke bottle.

His time behind the mic was never dull or boring.

“They ran through our ass like s*** through a tin horn, man,” Saban famously said. And he often lamented the “rat poison.”

The Alabama coach has won seven national championships and turned Alabama back into a national powerhouse that included six of those titles in just 17 seasons.

His decision to step away was reported Wednesday, first by ESPN.

Saban led the Tide to nine Southeastern Conference championships and won his first national title at Alabama with a 14-0 season in 2009. Titles came again in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020. He also won the SEC with LSU in 2001 and 2003.