Welcome into an emergency edition of that SEC podcast. I'm your host Mike Brett. I go by SEC Mike

on Twitter and I'm joined as always by my cousin who goes by big orange vows on Twitter. Shane,

what are you up to? Oh, this a little behind the scenes here. We're filming this Thursday,

middle of the day. Never done a show quite like, yes, we've done emergency pods,

but only after big old games. But man, we had to hop on the line for this one. You know what?

Oh, buddy. And I know it's a little early, but I'm going to have to add a few calories.

I'm telling you what, brother, independence day's a little over a month away, but there's already

fireworks down there in college station, ain't there? Oh, no doubt. And of course, you know,

I assume everybody's heard the news. If not Nick Sabin late on Wednesday, I was, you know,

I got to be honest with you, Shane, I was a little upset. I was like, my God, why couldn't you have

said this at three o'clock in the afternoon? Yeah. He said it about nine or 10 o'clock, called out

Jimbo Fisher, called out D on Sanders. He was speaking at some Birmingham event. And as I

understand it, Shane, this was an event for a lot of Alabama money people. So you can sit here

and say, well, he's trying to help to sport a football. What he's really trying to do is say, hey,

listen here, die hard, Alabama people. You want to compete in this NIL era? We got to step up our

game. So let's kick it over real quick to Nick Sabin's comments, courtesy of AL dot com. They were

on the scene. They filmed the whole thing. And I'll be on a shame before we even play this.

The first time I saw this was just a tweet from the reporter down there. I was like, this guy's

drunk or in hell. There's no way Nick Sabin said this about Texas A&M. So here's Nick Sabin late

Wednesday evening. Because our job is not to buy you to come to school here. And I don't know

how you manage your locker room. And I don't know if this is a sustainable model. Because one of

you folks are going to give some player that comes to our school a bunch of money to come to our

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