Welcome to an emergency edition of Andy Staples on 3.

You hear the horns.

You know what that means.

Something crazy just happened.

And oh, something happened.

Nick Saban has retired.

We got Jesse Simonson on three national writer.

He's at the coaches convention.

Maybe Nick Sabin's replacements there. We got Tim Wattsons and On Three National Writer. He's at the Coaches Convention. Maybe Nick Saban's replacements there.

We got Tim Watts from Bama Online.

We're bringing the whole crew on the cast of characters.

Tim, I will start with you since you have an entire website dedicated to University of Alabama coverage.

Sure.

Do you see it coming?

Oh, no. Not at all. I mean, I think it's like eight, nine, ten years in a row. You've heard the NFL, the NFL rumors switched to retiring. We hear it every year. Never expected it. Didn't really see anything. I mean, recruited his tail off. I mean, not that you'd expect anything different, but recruited great in this class, number two in the country. He was active in the portal. They were interviewing guys this week for the job opening. So, no, I don't know. I never really confirmed anything that this might happen. Now, we heard the rumors. Well, like I said, we always heard the rumor, hear the rumors. But when you see what he was doing, he acted like a man who was going to be the head coach next year.

I mean, he recruited the players meetings, you know, everything was going on and the job interviews.

Yeah, that's the part with job openings. But I don't know.

All of these guys will act as if until the moment they

hit that switch. So that makes sense. Jesse, let's try to put in perspective what we're

talking about here. His record at Alabama is 201 and 29. National champions six times, nine-time SEC champions, 206 and 29 at Alabama,

292.71 and one as a college head coach. He's the goat for a reason, Andy. He is the goat for a reason.

He's an icon and, you know, this is a, this is kind of a watershed moment of where were you when this news dropped?

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