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Nick Saban is happy in Tuscaloosa. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)
Alabama head coach Nick Saban directly disputed reports from earlier in the week that he was "miserable" in Tuscaloosa.
"We are happier than ever that we are here from a family standpoint especially," Saban said on his weekly radio show "Hey Coach." "Our children both live in Birmingham, our grandbaby is in Birmingham, we have a business in Birmingham. We have more friends in Alabama than we've ever had at any place we've ever lived."
Earlier in the week, Football Scoop, a coaches centric website, predicted that this upcoming season would be Saban's last at Alabama. Scott Rousel, the founder of the website, wrote he kept hearing Saban is "very frustrated" and predicted that Alabama wouldn't be his last coaching stop.
Saban, who has won three national titles in eight years at Alabama, said there was no truth to anything Roussel wrote. The Alabama head coach admitted that there are challenges with coaching at Alabama, but that he relished them.
"In no way, shape or form have I ever even mentioned to anybody that we weren't really happy here," he said. "I don't know where that came from."