re: Why would coach Cal not just retire?

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Because most coaches are miserable narcissistic assholes who don't know how to let go?

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There you go.

Bear Bryant
JoePa
Bobby Bowden

And it took the portal and NIL to make Saban walk away.

There's fear of retirement as death...and that if they just stay on a College campus and be around youth, they'll live forever.