- ABC News
- June 4, 2018
Even Nick Saban, one of the most successful and most prepared college football coaches of all time and a veteran boater to boot, can occasionally run into trouble on the water. But for the record, Saban said he didn't run out of gas while spending an afternoon on the lake with some of his Alabama players last week, as was the rage on social media, even though he has gotten a big laugh out of some of the responses. Saban told ESPN that what actually happened was the fuel pump was defective. And get this: The boat was new. "Brand spanking new, and it's the first time I'd been out in it," Saban told ESPN. "So when it stalled, I'm thinking, 'Oh my gosh. I bought a new boat, and they didn't put gas in it.' I didn't even think about it. You just assume that it's got gas in it when you get a new car or a new boat. My heart sunk for a minute because I had all those kids out there. I had two of them on tubes when it happened. We had fun, but I sure heard about it." Saban said one...