It’s been two years since Coach Saban delivered Alabama Football a National Championship by Alabama standards; that’s a long time. Many have used the off-season to fuel the Coach Saban fire by saying his dynasty with Alabama is over. However, for Coach Saban and his program, this off-season has been one of building in silence for a revenge season that Southeastern Conference Football has never before.

Despite the chatter from the media, Coach Saban has shown signs of a younger Nick Saban when discussing his 2023 team. Coach Saban has thrown around a smile, cracked jokes with reporters, and has conducted himself as a Coach that likes his group ahead of the 2023 season.

For reasons unknown to the everyday fan, Coach Saban has a group of guys in the Alabama Football program that bought into the process Coach Saban gave them to follow, giving Coach Saban enough to be silently excited about the upcoming season. For Coach Saban, the noise of him losing his grip on the sport validates the process the guys buy into when they step foot on campus at Alabama.

Coach Saban has been around the block long enough to know the only thing that matters to his team is the perception of the program inside the Alabama locker room. For others around the sport, when Coach Saban starts to show excitement about his current team, good things come to those inside the Crimson Tide program.

Truthfully, Coach Saban doesn’t care about the noise of others outside the Alabam Football program; he cares about retaking his crown as a National Champion and continuing his dominance. Coach Saban liking his team is a scary afterthought for programs that compete with Alabama. Sure, Alabama may flop this season, but not likely. Alabama smells fear in the waters of College Football as many pray that Coach Saban and Alabama continue the downward spiral. Yet, despite not winning a National Championship since the covid year, Alabama Football is still at the center of the national conversation in college football.

Not to mention, Alabama spent the off-season hiring staff members that align with Coach Saban and the process he has as the Head Coach of the Crimson Tide. There is nothing in that Alabama program that goes on that Coach Saban doesn’t have his finger on, he won’t publicly admit it, but the 2023 season is personal for him and his program. Alabama has one goal, to win the 2023 National Championship and to return the Crimson Tide to the mountaintop.

Alabama will open their season at home against Middle Tennessee State on September 2nd.