Alabama is under a stay-at-home order during the coronavirus pandemic, but Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban is still going to his office on UA campus in the Mal Moore building. Saban shared that nugget in his appearance on the Alabama Athletics Spring Update Show with Eli Gold.

“We’ve been staying busy,” Saban said when asked to describe his typical day. “I’m a Level 1 employee. I think there’s about three of those in whole Mal Moore building, so there’s about three of us that actually come in here. But I come in every day until noon, and we have a Zoom at 7:30 in the morning with the staff and organize what we’re going to do for that day, and most of it has been threefold. A, we work on next year’s opponents. B, we have an hour-long session Monday-Thursday with our players, so we organize what we’re going to do in that. And then we’re constantly working on recruiting evaluations and organization of who’s going to talk to what recruits, and I do a lot of Zoom video conferences with recruits and their families, mostly late in the afternoon and early evenings. It stays pretty busy through the week. On the weekends, of course, we don’t have anything, so we’ve been staying at home and trying to stay safe. But the normal day is busy, which I still enjoy, and you just have staff meetings on Zoom. It’s not with everybody sitting in the room.”

Saban said his players have handled the Zoom meetings well.

“They’ve been great,” he told Gold. “The players have been really, really good. Their attention has been good. We always check on their well-being, their families’ well-being, and then we’re also very cognizant of academics, have a good plan for every player and make sure they do their stuff in a timely fashion. And then we probably spend about 55 minutes of that on organized install, and we’ve probably been doing this now for 10 or 12 days and we’re probably somewhere between Day 4 and Day 5 of what we’d do in spring practice because we take everything really, really slow, show a lot of examples, show a lot of teaching progression examples from practice and things like that. It’s really been good.

“The players have been really, really good. We actually had a team meeting on Zoom yesterday with me. I sit in a different meeting every day so I can see the different players at every position because you don’t see them every day. I think they look forward to it, I think it keeps them connected and I think it gives them something to look forward to. We try to emphasize with the players that routine is really important in something like this. When are you doing your schoolwork? When are you working out? When are you having your 2 o’clock Zoom position meeting? And they’ve been good. It’s worked out as well as can be expected.”

The full Spring Update show is available at this link.

[H/T Bama OnLine]