Whatever you do, don't ask Nick Saban about retirement.

This is commonplace for Saban, 67, who answers the retirement hypothetical every offseason. At the top of his game entering his 13th season at Alabama, he signed the nation's No. 1 recruiting class per the 247Sports Composite this spring and is the presumptive SEC favorite the past decade.

Winning never gets boring for the game's best ever, especially when his last outing on the sideline didn't go as planned.

“I think it’s a fact of life that people respond better to failure than they do to success,” Saban said earlier this year, referencing the Clemson loss. “Whether you call it a chip or whatever you might call it, they’re all more willing to listen. They’re all more willing to learn about what they need to do to have a better chance to succeed in the future.

"I think we have that. I think the players are listening better. I think we have that and the players responded very well in the spring.”

If a return to the NFL interested Saban, he would've taken another leap by now. And the same goes for other elite-level jobs at the college level.

"I really enjoy what I’m doing, I really do," Saban told Paul Finebaum in May. "I love the players. I love the relationships you have with players. I like being part of a team. I keep looking at the next challenges and to me those challenges come each year in trying to rebuild our team — losses that you have, guys going out early for the draft.

"I’m excited about being able to do this."

But when the time comes for Alabama to make its move on who follows the six-time national champion, it'll mark one of the biggest coaches searches in modern history.

Strictly for entertainment purposes only, the professional oddsmakers over at SportsLine have created a list of coaches who Alabama could potentially tap as the program's next coach following Saban's departure years down the road: