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The time has come.
To paraphrase, Nick Saban has a difficult situation, but not a difficult choice.
No announcement has been made. No announcement needs to be made. The offseason comments from his parents. Hurts finally and understandably dropping his good soldier brave face. He carries that defeat in his body language and in his tone. The humbling of a swaggering-but-graceful BMOC and likable superstar has been as palpable as it has been rapid.
While the incessant chatter of the sports talking heads grows tiring, and while there often seems to be no news but bad news around college athletics, there do arrive some moments that are special; so meaningful and so sublime that they touch you.