AP Poll takeaways, Paul Finebaum talks Alliance, Saban's Texas sliding door & Mike Leach (ep. 398)
The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will
Connor O'Gara
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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, what was so interesting around that time is a couple of months after that, I did |
| 0:05.6 | a book with Jim O. Jahaski and we had a nugget in the book that Texas boosters had tried |
| 0:12.1 | to hire Nick Sabin, which I think most people knew, but we had a source that said that |
| 0:16.8 | they had offered him more than $100 million and Texas fans tried to act like we don't want |
| 0:22.4 | Nick Sabin, he's old, you know, and yeah, I just think back on some of that now and laugh |
| 0:31.4 | because they acted like they really didn't care about it, in the bottom line as they did |
| 0:36.0 | want Sabin and Sabin was offered the job and he considered it. He said to me and to anyone |
| 0:43.9 | who would confront him with this, that the reason he didn't go to Texas, he said this |
| 0:48.8 | privately, he didn't say it publicly, he did not want to have to answer to 10 or 15 different |
| 0:54.8 | boosters who all felt like they own the franchise. It was a little bit of a Jerry Jones complex |
| 1:01.4 | or the Boone Pickens complex in college football in the past and that has always haunted |
| 1:06.5 | Texas. By the way, it also haunted the University of Alabama until Nick Sabin walked in there |
| 1:12.7 | in 2007 and went to Booster Club meeting after Booster Club meeting and said listen, I |
| 1:17.2 | run this place, you stay the blank out of my way. |
| 1:19.5 | Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday on South Podcast. I am Colonel Gera. Well, |
| 1:33.4 | I'm going to level with you for a bit. There were times this off season when I would sit |
| 1:38.5 | down, I would plan a pod and I'd go well, it's time to get a little creative because |
| 1:43.8 | not a whole lot of news. Today, though, is not one of those days and how fitting with |
| 1:49.5 | us now going to two pods a week for the rest of the year. That's right, two pods a week, |
| 1:55.4 | rest of the year. Days are going to be a little bit TBD, a little bit touch and go for now |
| 2:00.3 | until we get into the start of the season that we're going to have a little bit more regular |
| 2:03.5 | schedule, but wanted to make sure people know that. So you heard Paul Feinbaum with the |
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