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Nick Saban has done it again. By virtue of the power vested in him as the widely acknowledged GOAT of his profession, he made an agate decision that’s making headlines. He turned a quiet minute at a press conference into hours of intense fan and media discussion. He sent Tim Brando into a spasm on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

The Alabama football coach did all that merely by dispensing with a needless formality. He dropped a depth charge simply by declining to drop a depth chart on the assembled media at Monday’s press conference.

As another Brando once said onscreen as the last breaths left his body, “The horror. The horror.”

Our friend Tim called Saban’s decision “beneath him,” an attempt to “bully his local media,” and interpreted his explanation as “a bit much … when the truth really is ‘my quarterback room ain’t what it used to be.’ “

“Clearly these days he’s not in the best of moods,” wrote the veteran broadcaster and Saban watcher. “The …kissing he’s demanding here is a joke.”