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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Bryce Young and McElroy share stories about playing for Saban at Alabama

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Heisman trophy winner Bryce Young joins Greg McElroy to share a few stories about what it is like to play quarterback at Alabama under the legend. How was that 1st team meeting with Saban, how were those lake trips and what was Saban like after he won a National Championship? McElroy shares some stories and tells you who the Tide might be looking at as the next Head Coach. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As I'm scrambling, someone comes in behind and sacks me and the ball comes out and I fumble.

0:04.4

And right when I fumble, I look up and like I immediately make eye contact with Coach

0:11.3

Seaman I can see him from the sideline.

0:13.8

And I walk straight to him and he lets me have it on the sideline.

0:17.0

And from that point forward I was like, all right, I probably should have listened to him

0:20.7

the first time. It's always great to hear from an all-time great Alabama quarterback on what it was like to to play for Coach Savin and what Coach

0:34.2

Savin means to him. Welcome to always college football. I'm Greg McElroy.

0:38.4

Today is January 11th. We are about 24 hours removed from the bombshell story that has hit the sport as hard as just about anything. Nick Saben officially retiring from the Alabama Crimson Tide. We will have Heisman Trophy winner Bryce

0:56.2

Young on the show to help talk about what the relationship with Coach

1:00.5

Saban was like, What maybe was his favorite

1:03.6

games, favorite interaction, a story or two. I have a few stories. A few

1:07.7

that I've had saved up, but felt like today was an appropriate day

1:12.0

to unleash those on the world. We have so many things

1:14.8

that we can hit and we'll also have plenty of tributes from former players as well.

1:19.1

But before we get you out of here we said we're going to have the 24-hour rule

1:22.3

yesterday. We weren't going to talk

1:24.4

about future replacements, candidates that are going to be jumping out to the forefront, possibly

1:29.4

taking the job. But I'll tell you today is the qualities that I think Greg Byrne the athletic director

1:35.6

I'll tell you what he's probably looking for when trying to figure out who is going to be the

1:40.8

next head coach of the Alabama Crimson

1:43.4

Tyve. Let's kick things off with a great conversation with

1:46.2

Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, Bryce Young.

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