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The 2024 college football season will be the first without legendary coach Nick Saban in nearly two decades, and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders recently paid him respect.
While speaking on The Joel Klatt Show, Sanders declared that Saban, who retired in January after spending the last 17 seasons as head coach of Alabama, is the pinnacle of what college coaches aspire to become.
"First of all, let's just get this straight, he's the magna cum laude, he is it. He is what we attain to just get next to, we'll never eclipse it whatsoever," Sanders said around the 16:35 mark.