Colorado head coach Deion Sanders does not appear to have many friends in the college football world. Former Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban is one of his closest friends and a source of wisdom.
Sanders and Saban seem to have developed a friendship that persists even today. Sanders discussed his friendship with both Saban and his wife Terri.
Sanders discussed his friendship with the Sabans with Joel Klatt, a Fox College Football analyst.
“I’m like a kid in a darn candy shop,” Sanders said. “I’m sitting Indian-style asking him, ‘Coach, can you tell me about this? Can you tell me about that?’ I’m serious. I just keep it going. All I need is, ‘And?’ That keeps it going… Oh my God, I love him and Terry, his wife Terry. I don’t mean to call her by her first name, Mrs. Saban, she needs to teach a masterclass on how to do it with all the women that are along aside the man.”
He also shared some praise for Saban’s wife, Terry Saban.
“She is unbelievable,” Deion continued. “Just to get your butt kicked and you go back and you look on your phone, and you’ve got a message from Miss Terry. It’s unbelievable.”
Ultimately, Coach Prime thinks it is a shame that college football won’t have Nick Saban on the sidelines this season.
“He means so much to me personally as a man,” Sanders explained. “And just watching him from near and far and being able to have access to pick up a phone and call him whenever I would need him … I hate that we lost him for college football’s sake.”
