I don't know a damn thing, but it does appear strange that Nick would allow his OC, DC, etc. to go to the same school, unless he was at least giving serious consideration to retiring. Pretend he likes Sark a bunch and has been helping Sark work on his management skills. Dabo gets first shot at the 'bama job anyway. Nick knows this stuff. He's not gonna waste time trying to pitch for his current OC to be his successor when he knows the ultimate 'bama alum lives one neighborhood over. Nick knows a few things, I imagine. One of those is that Urban has given up trying to catch him. Nick will be 70 this year, and probably has a few things he would like to do other than coach football. Hopefully he will go out Monday night after his 7th National Championship. He wins Monday night, he is the GOAT- no debate about it. He is already tied with the Bear. Why come back after all of that? It is almost a foregone conclusion that nobody will ever catch 7 NCs.