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Nick Saban has a big week ahead.
Not only does the Alabama head coach have one of the biggest games of the season against LSU on Saturday, he also has his 72nd birthday on Tuesday.
But Saban isn’t concerned with celebrating his birthday this week. He’s got too much to focus on. He does have a birthday wish, however: a good game from his team.
“The game’s the most important thing,” Saban said in his press conference Monday. “That would be an outstanding birthday present if we could play well in this game, so that’s what I’m focused on and that’s what we’re really trying to do.”
Saban knows by now that birthdays and holidays take a backseat when they come during the football season, so by that logic, Saban hasn’t celebrated a birthday since the 1970s.
“When your birthday and holidays come up in football season, they’re really not holidays and they’re really not birthdays,” Saban said. “You get older, but you don’t really celebrate much.”
