Nick Saban shares funny tidbit from trip to Italy

Alabama Crimson Tide head football coach Nick Saban took a trip to Italy this summer.

It sounds like it was a trip he took begrudgingly, because when does Nick Saban not just focus on championship football?

Saban explained that he "didn't really want to go" at SEC Media Days, via Saturday Down South, but it sounds like he's ultimately happy that he did. Perhaps some of the interactions he had there played a role.

For many of today's fans and especially for many (read: most) of today's recruits, Saban is a college football deity and he's turned Alabama into an absolute winning machine. So much so that the Tide are even popular across the pond where football is better known as fútbol.

"I thought nobody would know us anywhere that we went, and we got ‘Roll Tided’ everywhere we went," Saban explained. "Even in the Ferrari plant, we had a tour of the Ferrari plant and these cats don’t even speak English and we’re getting Roll Tide. I guess we must have a pretty decent brand, I’m talking about the University of Alabama now."

Georgia may be back-to-back national champions and Kirby Smart (a Saban disciple, mind you) may be the current top dog, but Saban's Crimson Tide is still the crème de la crème of college football.

It's as true in Tuscaloosa as it is in Venice.