Nick Saban recalls hilarious story involving Bob Stoops and a missed robbery

Alabama coach Nick Saban recently recalled a hilarious story that involves Bob Stoops‘ uncle and a missed robbery. It happened at a bar in Youngstown when someone walked in with a shotgun.

“There’s not a lot of details,” Nick Saban said. “We were talking football and the guy came in and robbed the place with a shotgun. Police came about 20 minutes later and the bartender just told the police, ‘Don’t ask these two guys. They didn’t even know what happened.’ That was it.”

“I guess you could say we were focused,” Nick Saban concluded.

Nick Saban and Uncle Bob Stoops missed an armed robbery because they were paying too much attention to plays that they were drawing up plays together. At the time, Stoops was a high school football coach. At the time, Saban was recruiting Mark Stoops, meaning Saban would have been the defensive coordinator at Michigan State.

In previous interviews, Nick Saban has said that the bar was called ‘Talk of the Town.’ During that version of the story, Saban says they had to ask the police, “What robbery?”

Nick Saban and a funny story

A lot of people group Nick Saban in with the Bill Belichick-type coaches of the world. That is to say, tight-lipped and not willing to share stories with the media. That isn’t always the case, though, as Saban has become known for telling a good, funny story.

For instance, he told the story of how his wife wants him to blitz more, explaining that he can’t do that for the sanity of secondary coaches everywhere.

“Miss Terry always wants to blitz more,” Nick Saban laughed. “I’ve never said this to Miss Terry, but I’m a secondary coach, and secondary coaches that play for coaches who blitz a lot, they end up sleeping under the bridge and twitching, like this,” Saban said while bobbing his head. “Cause you’re always putting the back end in a tough situation.”