Nick Saban plays pop-a-shot against top recruit because life is really that good

Published Jan. 18, 2016 9:24 a.m. ET

Brett Smiley

Only four days after winning his fourth National Championship at Alabama in seven years, head coach Nick Saban got busy restocking the Crimson Tide cupboard for another title run.

Here he is, the 64-year-old college football living legend playing pop-a-shot against top wide receiver recruit A.J. Brown on Starkville, Miss.:

Me and coach Saban(The Goat?) hooping a little bit ??? pic.twitter.com/0lIZ61VXiN
— AJ Brown (@Brown1arthur) January 16, 2016

[H/T USA Today HSS]

Had to test coach Sabans basketball skills?? pic.twitter.com/FYTpfDca71
— Derrick Brown9⃣0⃣ (@DerrickBrown90) December 12, 2015