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In January, any layperson immediately understood the gravity of Nick Saban’s retirement. The best coach in the history of college football was leaving. Among championship contenders, power dynamics shifted immediately.
But the effects went way beyond that. As Max Olson and Bruce Feldman write this morning, the wake of Saban’s retirement quite literally ripped across the entire sport. It...