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Welcome back. Great to have all of you with us. Busy first hour. The conversation was primarily on

Nick Sabin's statements and a vicious attack on Sabin by an editor from DeadSpin, not that that matters, he's been attacked by others.

Reaction to that, we'll have a guest coming up here in a few minutes, Chris Vanini,

one of the top college football writers in America from The Athletic, and back to your phone calls you want to give

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Chris is up next hey Chris.

Hey Paul how are you today? We are doing great thank you. I'm shocked at the

the yellow journalism that's been has stooped to about this right I mean I, taking a shot at Sabon being compensated well for what he did. He started the

arms race and coaches salaries, right? I mean that all started with him and he was worth I've said this many times

anybody here in Tuscaloosa to this community he's worth every penny and more but you know the

other thing that I recall over the years

is Nick Sabin asking for ways to help players,

to compensate players actually,

whether it was an allowance for expenses

to help keep their mind on what they needed to do you know the

statements about trying to create value for the players has underpinned everything

within within within Alabama football under Nick savings tenure, much more so than prior to that.

And I think that it changed the game.

I mean, we know he changed the game anyway, right, in the way that he worked operation I think the frustration

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