After the infamous “Kick Six” loss to Auburn, seven-time national champion coach Nick Saban reportedly considered leaving Alabama for ESPN in 2014
, Saban had meetings about potentially leaving Alabama for ESPN in 2014.
The possibility of a move to ESPN began to emerge when Saban met with Nick Khan, then a sports media talent agent at CAA, prior to the ’13 season. At the time, Khan represented high-profile television personalities including Kirk Herbstreit, Skip Bayless, Colin Cowherd, Mike Greenberg and many others, according to Talty.
However, it was after the infamous “Kick Six” loss to Auburn that led Saban to seriously weigh his options, per Talty. After the Crimson Tide were eliminated from national championship contention with a gut-wrenching loss in the Iron Bowl, Saban reportedly “empowered Khan to reach out to ESPN with the message Saban was thinking about the next chapter in his career and considering whether media should be a part of that,” Talty reports.
Khan then reportedly set up a meeting between Saban, his coaching agent Jimmy Sexton and Syracuse’s athletics director John Wildhack, who was a senior executive at ESPN at the time. According to Talty, the Alabama coach was said to have “zeroed in” on the possibility of joining ESPN’s, asking Wildhack about life at ESPN, the company’s organizational structure and if it was like “working on a team.
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