The alleged details change. The story remains the same. Nick Saban gave up on the NFL a decade ago, but the NFL hasn't given up on him.

In an extraordinary bit of news, an NFL source told Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report that every one of the league's six teams that made a coaching change this off-season reached out to Saban to gauge his interest.

Saban had no interest, which surprises no one who knows anything about the man, but apparently that didn't stop those teams from asking.

At this rate, Saban will be 75 years old, finishing his second decade at Alabama, and agent Jimmy Sexton still will be fielding calls from college and pro suitors alike on his behalf.

There's one question these organizations should ask themselves before reaching out to Saban's rep: Why?

Why would he do it? Why would he think about doing it? Why would Saban even consider leaving the best job he's ever had to coach somewhere else?

Why would he, at age 65, pull up the deepest roots he's ever put down to rebuild another organization to his exacting specifications?

Money? He's a shrewd businessman, but he's making more than $7 million a year at his day job, and part ownership in Mercedes dealerships is a nice side hustle.

Power and control? He's already the head coach and general manager of the most successful organization in his sport, with more power and control over his program than anyone in college football.

Boredom and a new challenge? Oh, sure, he's dominating a weakened SEC, winning four of the last five conference titles, but he still has many rivers to cross and mountains to climb.

He's lost his last game of the season in three of the last four years. After winning three of four national championships from 2009-12, he's won only one of the last four big rings. Could've won the other three in 2013, 2014 and 2016, but came up agonizingly short in each case.

He's still one national title away from matching Bear Bryant's record of six and two shy of breaking it. Getting on Bryant's level is powerful motivation to keep the process up and running in Tuscaloosa.

Saban does a lot of things well, but as he told Mal Moore on that historic flight from south Florida to T-town, the thing he does best is recruit, and recruiting doesn't exist in the NFL. Oh sure, there's roster management, and it's vitally important, but acquiring talent through the draft, trades and free agency is a completely different enterprise.

Saban has constructed something close to the perfect recruiting machine through years of experience and sheer effort. As Lane Kiffin told Stewart Mandel of Fox Sports, "It's just complete domination in recruiting. No one has ever worked harder at it."

Kiffin, from his new job as the Florida Atlantic head coach, described the confident feeling that follows all those No. 1 signing classes.

"We'd go to play last year," Kiffin said, "and we knew that no matter what, when we walked onto that field, our roster was more talented than every team we played."

Why walk away from that rare place after grinding for years to put your program in position to win every game it plays?

There's no way to know exactly when Saban will hang up his headset or if he'll give in to the temptation to start from scratch one more time, but suffice it to say he would be crazy to leave Alabama to coach anywhere else, especially to reverse his steps and return to the NFL.

And if we've learned anything about him these last 10 years, Nick Saban ain't crazy.