Alabama head coach Nick Saban will undergo surgery to have his right hip replaced on Monday, BamaOnLine has confirmed.

USA TODAY was first to report the surgery, while according to The Tuscaloosa News, Dr. Lyle Cain of Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center will perform the surgery.

“The only thing I hate about it is I’ll have to not play golf for six weeks or so,” Saban told USA TODAY. “… But this is the best time for me to do it. I do a lot of speaking and evaluating and film work and stuff like that, but we’re not practicing. Other than playing golf, I probably wouldn’t be very active. So this is the best time, and then it gives me a lot of the summer to get back in shape.”

This will occur more than one week after Saban announced he was having his hip evaluated following the spring season after he experienced pain in his right hip on the first day of spring practice.

Saban is entering his 13th season as head coach of the Crimson Tide, and as he said in the closing remarks of his A-Day Game press conference, he has no intentions of retiring any time soon. Saban’s current contract runs through the 2025 season (Feb. 28, 2026).

“I’ve been struggling a little bit with one of my hips, and even though they don’t make them like they used to and most players would not to be able to perform in spring practice like I did if they had a similar situation, but nobody could even tell, but I might not be able to play golf for a few weeks,” Saban said. “We’re going to do an evaluation of this at the end of spring, but they say even if it’s the worst case scenario, it may be six or eight weeks. But I can still cut a rug and cut them off, I can do whatever I need to do. I can still play golf. But this has a little bothersome, and I don’t want to go into the fall with this being a problem.

“I want to get it fixed because I don’t want to coach for one more year, I want to coach for a lot of more years. So, whenever things like this come up, I want to be aggressive and proactive to try and get it taken care of. We’ll certainly do that, and we’ve got really good people to do it. I don’t think it should be a big deal, but I’ve been keeping this a little bit of a secret because I have so much respect for this group (of reporters). I wanted you to be the first to know.”

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