ATLANTA – It did not take long.
About 15 minutes after Nick Saban walked through the automatic sliding glass doors of the Omni Hotel, a radio broadcaster asked him about it, even if he did so in an unlikely way. “Do you know how to spell Tagovailoa?” the broadcaster asked.
“Probably not,” a smiling Saban responded, “but I can spell Tua.”
More questions followed over the next three hours regarding one of college football’s hottest storylines: Alabama’s starting quarterback competition between Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa. Reporters volleyed more than a dozen questions toward the coach and his three player attendees on the third day of Southeastern Conference media days.