All right, we are live officially. Sorry about that everybody.

All right, testing out new stuff here. Welcome in latest episode of that SEC podcast.

I'm your host Michael Bratton.

Go by SEC Mike on Twitter and that is Stephen Lassen, Senior Editor over at Athlawn

Sports.

It goes by Athlawn Stephen on the Twitter machine.

Stephen, sorry for the awkward four or five minutes to start this show.

How you doing, brother?

Hey Mike, I'm doing good.

Always good to be chatting with you about some SEC ball

SEC after dark no worries at all on the delay keep in mind it's spring practice for all

of us so we're working through some bugs. Hey what a what a strange

week in the SEC right Zacharnett going over to to Old Miss Alabama having an

open practice I think for the first time since 2021 so strange times in the

SEC.

Yeah I'm sure you saw it Stephen but there was a big Chris Lowe, friend of the show here on Wednesday over at ESPN.com.

A lot of, kind of, I don't want to say a tell-all, but Nick Saban had some very interesting comments about his decision to retire and he put he said this was him himself saying about 70 to 80% of the team after the Rose Bowl defeat Stephen they have their kind of end of

You know the end of the year meetings what have you

70 80% of the players wanted to know, am I going to start next year?

How much money am I going to get?

And that played a big factor, according to Nick Saban,

for the greatest college coach of all time, in my opinion, to walk. to

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