Nick Saban is back.
Just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19, the Alabama football coach is back with the team and will coach Saturday’s game at LSU. A day before the Crimson Tide got ready to leave Louisiana, Saab announced his return to his Thursday night radio show.
“Yes, I will stay there,” Saab said. “I’m good.”
“I feel like my time is up so I’m ready to get back into the swing of things even though I’m there for every possible thing. It’s been a little different but now I can meet face to face and do what we need to do without issues or problems. “
He said the medical staff made the decision “on the basis of the CDC schedule and all that”.
“But I’m clear tomorrow to travel with the team,” he said from home via video call.
Sub also revealed some more details about his coronavirus treatment. He said he had “one of those IV deals” the same day he tested positive last Wednesday.
“Plasma treatment, whatever you call it,” Saab said. “And it really worked wonders. I woke up the next day and I actually saw a few symptoms of a cold in my head, maybe a little cough, so I thought I had a cold. But that’s about it. I didn’t feel bad. I didn’t have a fever but what was in this plasma deal, it knocked out in a single day. So from Thursday, I felt great and 100%.
“And I strongly recommend that anyone who receives this treatment receive it.”
Saab has said on several occasions this week that he feels good and is expected to be on the sidelines for the City Saturday kickoff at 7pm at Baton Rouge. He said Wednesday evening that he would return “soon” and “in the very near future.”
The coach of the year lost his first game in decades on the job when Alabama beat Burn-133-1. Seen from home, Saab replaced the offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian as head coach of De Facto, although the win is still on Saban’s career record.
The news of Saban’s positive test came on November 25, a day before the Novxgiving. Unlike the October coronavirus scare, this positive test will not be challenged because the soap shows symptoms. He said he felt a runny nose right away as he continued his normal game-week routine from home instead of the football game facility.
S.E.C. The protocol required that it be kept at least 10 days apart from the onset of symptoms. He needed to go 24 hours without a fever to get out of solitude and get back on the team.
Michael Casagrande is a journalist with Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter ByCasagrande Or on Facebook.
