Hours before the Giants named Ben McAdoo as Tom Coughlin’s replacement on Jan. 14, they got a call from college football’s best — and froze.
According to comedian Tom Arnold, a good friend of Giants owner Steve Tisch, the Giants were prepared to reverse course at the last second and hire Alabama coach Nick Saban after he expressed interest in the head coaching job.
“They got his deal done with [Ben McAdoo] and they are ready to sign him, and they get a call from Bob Ehrman [an intermediary] who says Nick Saban wants the job,” Arnold told ESPN’s Paul Finebaum.