Rece Davis had a chance to sit down with Nick Saban to discuss the head coach’s recent retirement.

After Saban announced his decision to retire as Alabama’s head coach on Wednesday, Davis was in Tuscaloosa Thursday for a sit-down interview. Davis made an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” to share his takeaways and the biggest point of the interview was how difficult the decision proved to be.

“I think we talked for 35-40 minutes, somewhere in that neighborhood. We talked a little before the interview started as well. I think the biggest takeaway, Pat, was not really that much of a surprise in that this was extraordinarily difficult for him,” said Davis. “But, sort of true to his standard, the reason he said is there are no health issues within the family, other than the fact that this season took a little more out of him than normal in terms of energy, and he wanted to make sure that he was able to go at a high standard.”

It is certainly good to hear that Saban and his family are healthy. However, the head coach had to admit he was no longer sure where he would be in 3-5 years, something that impacted his ability to be honest with potential coaches and players.

“Potential new coaches coming in, players wanted to know are you going to be there 3 years, 5 years. And he said I couldn’t be honest about that anymore because I didn’t know,” Davis explained. “And he felt like this was the right time.”