If there's one thing Nick Saban is known for, it's loyalty. Just ask the Miami Dolphins.
The Alabama head coach has a contract through the 2022 season, but is frustrated and unhappy in Tuscaloosa according to Scott Roussel, per MSN.
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"I can't support it by reportable facts—and of course there is no pressure from the administration—but from folks in the profession, I keep hearing 'Nick isn't happy,' 'Nick seems miserable,' 'Nick is very frustrated,' and I can foresee the very real possibility that Nick pulls the ripcord and ejects from Tuscaloosa after this season," Roussel wrote.
"Where that parachute will land, well, that has to play out, but I don't suspect T-Town will be Nick's final coaching stop."
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So if Roussel is going to speculate, so will we. Here are three potential landing spots for Saban in 2016.
San Francisco 49ers
Players don't want to play for Jim Tomsula, and the man hasn't even coached a regular season game yet. Patrick Willis, Chris Borland, Justin Smith and Anthony Davis all voluntarily left the team in the offseason. One poor campaign could see Tomsula involuntarily leave with them.
The 49ers aren't shy about hiring big-name college football coaches. Jim Harbaugh led the team to consecutive NFC Championship games before leaving for Michigan. Barring an impressive season, Saban should be a name linked with replacing Tomsula in 2016.
New York Giants
Tom Coughlin can't coach forever...or can he?
The 69-year-old is battling both age and attrition, having missed the playoffs in each of the last three seasons. A disappointing year will likely cost him his job, opening the door for another dictator on the sidelines.
Texas Longhorns
"I have an agent, which most coaches have," Saban said in July, per SI.com. "And when somebody is interested in you, they call your agent, which they did. The agent calls you, and you tell the agent 'I'm interested' or 'I'm not interested.' So [Jimmy Sexton] called me about 15 times about Texas, and every time he called I said I'm not interested in talking to them, and I never will be.
"That's the story. He did his job, I did my job."
Sure, Nick.
Like many, Wallace Hall wasn't convinced. The Texas booster alleged Saban already wanted to come to Texas in 2012.
"I am completely convinced that Saban would have come to Texas had Mack [Brown] approved of the idea or had DeLoss [Dodds] fired Mack," Hall said, per the Dallas Morning News.
Fingers crossed the landscape of college football tests Saban's word in 2016.
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