Welcome back as we continue here the second hour of what has been a pretty

eventful program already. It's been a couple of weeks since we've had a

chance to talk to Michael Bratton from that SEC podcast. Michael, first of all, happy new year,

great to talk to you and I haven't heard from you in a while so I hope you're doing okay.

Yeah, doing great, Paul, appreciate you have me on as always and a lot's changed here in just the last week or so.

Yeah, that decaying dynasty has decided to move on and new coaching town.

Just your thoughts on really the last couple of weeks

at Alabama in particular.

Right, and I know I've been leading the bandwagon

like you said, paying dynasty and all that but really

caught me off guard that Nick Saben retired when he did the fashion that he did.

No shame in losing in overtime in the last play in the Rose Bowl to the eventual

national champions but given everything Alabama's got coming back I thought he

would have given it at least one more season because I probably would have

projected Alabama is the favorite to win it all next season.

So fascinating, just how that all went down and you know I like to joke on my show recently that if you were an Alabama fan that went off the grid for a couple

days man you came back to Caleb Abords your coach within 48 hours just it just

seemed like it all happened so fast that it's still kind I'm still a

little numb to it. Well let's go I mean the same we know we don't need to dig too

deep into him he's a retired ex coach about to go into TV but but what about Kalin de Boer? What are your

thoughts on him? I mean I thought this was as good as Alabama could possibly

do given the circumstances and I know people made it out

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