📡 Update: "Coach Saban underwent successful robotic assisted right hip replacement surgery"

[bamachine]

 

[#80]

Well now let's get that hip fixed.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Update: saying he'll be sidelined 6-8 weeks

Shit. This is the shit that eventually landed JoPa in the press box. Little different as JoPa's old ass obviously broke his hip, and this timeline indicates a possible scope procedure for cartilage repair. Different hip issues, and Saban isn't even 70 yet, but you know folks are still gonna use the optics of this to negatively recruit against him

 

[bamachine]

A couple of differences between JoePa's situation and Saban's.

First, JoePa got hit on the sideline, causing him to be injured.

Second, as far as we know, Saban is not a pedo enabler.

 

[cj6891]

Plus, JoePa was 1,000 damn years old when he hurt his hip.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

@bamachine, @cj6891,

Again, valid points that I pretty much covered in my first post about this.

I'm simply playing devil's advocate here, especially as shady as coaches like Kirby are. They'll use the optics of "Saban getting old, his hips are starting to fail him" as a negative recruiting tool. Heyperbolous, sure. Fake news, as it were, but it'll still happen..

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@bamachine, @cj6891,

Again, valid points that I pretty much covered in my first post about this.

I'm simply playing devil's advocate here, especially as shady as coaches like Kirby are. They'll use the optics of "Saban getting old, his hips are starting to fail him" as a negative recruiting tool. Heyperbolous, sure. Fake news, as it were, but it'll still happen..

Yep...the fake news shit has been EXPOSED..... so hard to get by with it anymore... glad to hear nick wants many more years....

 

[sean]

@bamachine, @cj6891,

Again, valid points that I pretty much covered in my first post about this.

I'm simply playing devil's advocate here, especially as shady as coaches like Kirby are. They'll use the optics of "Saban getting old, his hips are starting to fail him" as a negative recruiting tool. Heyperbolous, sure. Fake news, as it were, but it'll still happen..

exactly!

but luckily Coach Saban can see through all that bullshit and is being preemptive. with him saying he wants to coach a lot more years, he's basically saying, "whatever those other coaches are telling you about me aren't true. i'm still here, i'm good to go, and i WILL win more championships."

chess vs checkers

 

[UAgrad93]

With the comment, "I don't want to coach 1 more year, but I want to coach a lot more years!" CNS just put the rest of the college football world on notice. F you Flowbee cut!!!

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

 

[Bama News]

Nick Saban set for hip replacement as he plans to stay at Alabama for 'a lot more years'


TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The pain “came out of nowhere,” and did not go away. And if you’re wondering why Nick Saban chose now – or next week, rather – to have his right hip replaced, this is why: He has no plans to go away, either.

Saban, 67, has won five national championships in 11 seasons at Alabama, and clearly has designs on more of both. The last time we saw the Crimson Tide, it was losing in stunning fashion, 44-16 to Clemson in the College Football Playoff national championship game. That was followed by dramatic turnover in the coaching staff. But even if urgency does not have to be manufactured in Tuscaloosa this offseason, there’s also not much reason for concern – the dynasty is not crumbling away.

But at least one thing has to get fixed.

“I never noticed my hip at all until the first day of spring practice,” Saban told USA TODAY Sports. “I ran out on the field and it felt like I got a hip flexor. It didn’t feel like it was some injury or something like that, but it never went away and it actually kept almost getting worse.”

Saban, who has exhibited vitality that makes him seem younger than his age, said if he weren’t coaching he would postpone the procedure for as long as he could. Which is why in one way, the decision serves as a tangible answer to an annual offseason question.

“I don’t want to coach for one more year,” Saban told reporters after Alabama’s spring game. “I want to coach for a lot of more years.”

But the job entails an active, physical lifestyle, even during the offseason.

“I don’t want to be in position where I can’t do that,” he said.

And Saban, who was limping while moving around the Alabama football facility earlier this week, said the pain is pronounced in certain activities – and nonexistent in others. Climbing stairs, running, sometimes even bending over to tie his shoes is painful.

“That’s what gets me,” he said. “But turning and swinging a golf club? It hurts more to get out of the cart than it does to swing the club.”

Saban expects to be up and around shortly after the procedure. But his golf season, which typically begins after spring practice and runs into the summer, will be curtailed.

“The only thing I hate about it is, I’ll have to not play golf for six weeks or so,” he said. “… But this is the best time for me to do it. I do a lot of speaking and evaluating and film work and stuff like that, but we’re not practicing. Other than playing golf, I probably wouldn’t be very active. So this is the best time, and then it gives me a lot of summer to get back in shape.”

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Nick Saban set for hip replacement as he plans to stay at Alabama for 'a lot more years'


TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The pain “came out of nowhere,” and did not go away. And if you’re wondering why Nick Saban chose now – or next week, rather – to have his right hip replaced, this is why: He has no plans to go away, either.

Saban, 67, has won five national championships in 11 seasons at Alabama, and clearly has designs on more of both. The last time we saw the Crimson Tide, it was losing in stunning fashion, 44-16 to Clemson in the College Football Playoff national championship game. That was followed by dramatic turnover in the coaching staff. But even if urgency does not have to be manufactured in Tuscaloosa this offseason, there’s also not much reason for concern – the dynasty is not crumbling away.

But at least one thing has to get fixed.

“I never noticed my hip at all until the first day of spring practice,” Saban told USA TODAY Sports. “I ran out on the field and it felt like I got a hip flexor. It didn’t feel like it was some injury or something like that, but it never went away and it actually kept almost getting worse.”

Saban, who has exhibited vitality that makes him seem younger than his age, said if he weren’t coaching he would postpone the procedure for as long as he could. Which is why in one way, the decision serves as a tangible answer to an annual offseason question.

“I don’t want to coach for one more year,” Saban told reporters after Alabama’s spring game. “I want to coach for a lot of more years.”

But the job entails an active, physical lifestyle, even during the offseason.

“I don’t want to be in position where I can’t do that,” he said.

And Saban, who was limping while moving around the Alabama football facility earlier this week, said the pain is pronounced in certain activities – and nonexistent in others. Climbing stairs, running, sometimes even bending over to tie his shoes is painful.

“That’s what gets me,” he said. “But turning and swinging a golf club? It hurts more to get out of the cart than it does to swing the club.”

Saban expects to be up and around shortly after the procedure. But his golf season, which typically begins after spring practice and runs into the summer, will be curtailed.

“The only thing I hate about it is, I’ll have to not play golf for six weeks or so,” he said. “… But this is the best time for me to do it. I do a lot of speaking and evaluating and film work and stuff like that, but we’re not practicing. Other than playing golf, I probably wouldn’t be very active. So this is the best time, and then it gives me a lot of summer to get back in shape.”

Which means he'll be back just before the camp season starts.

 

[BamaFan334]

Best wishes Coach. I think you know we all hope for a speedy recovery.

 

[OldPlayer]

We've all seen the Scott Cochran led workout videos. I expect to see several starring CNS in May and June.

 

[mando]

Well we always thought Coach Saban was a machine. They are just going in and replacing a part.

All seriousness, I pray all goes well and Coach has a speedy recovery with no complications.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Well we always thought Coach Saban was a machine. They are just going in and replacing a part.

All seriousness, I pray all goes well and Coach has a speedy recovery with no complications.

Crazy how little time a hip replacement takes to recover from nowadays.

My mom had a knee replacement just last year and it took her 4-5 months to walk without much of a noticeable limp. Granted, she also has MS and Fibromyalgia, so that probably slowed her recovery down dramatically.

But a hip replacement, according to that article above, only taking as little as 3-4 weeks before he's walking around fairly normal again? That's crazy.

 

[rick4bama]

Hope he heal the all the way!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Crazy how little time a hip replacement takes to recover from nowadays.

My mom had a knee replacement just last year and it took her 4-5 months to walk without much of a noticeable limp. Granted, she also has MS and Fibromyalgia, so that probably slowed her recovery down dramatically.

But a hip replacement, according to that article above, only taking as little as 3-4 weeks before he's walking around fairly normal again? That's crazy.

Sounds like a tough lady...ur mom....

 

[XXL TideFan]

I had fusion surgery in '12 and the pain after was excruciating. Same time down the hall an elderly man had knee replacement and I volunteered to give him my morphine drip if it would have kept him quite and pain controlled. He was wailing like a banshee.

I only missed 2 weeks of work but wore a back brace for 2 or 3 months.

 

[bamachine]

Sounds like a tough lady...ur mom....

She had to raise SLO, of course she is tough.