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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Nick Saban’s Legacy and Who Will Replace Him at Alabama With Bruce Feldman

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Nick Saban officially retired from coaching on Wednesday with arguably the best résumé of any college coach. Ryen is joined by Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and The Athletic to discuss what went into Saban’s decision, his legacy, and who will be given the task to follow in his footsteps at the University of Alabama. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out theringer.com/RG to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Bruce Feldman Producers: Cliff Augustin, Steve Ceruti, and Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Breaking news, Nick Saban has retired from Alabama.

0:14.8

What is next and how amazing was this from?

0:18.7

We're going to spend some time with Bruce Feldman, who has more on this developing story,

0:22.1

a bonus edition of the Ryan Resiloh Podcast. We have to do it. He's the greatest coach in the history of college football. Nick

0:39.8

Seabin retires today from Alabama and the number one guy I want to talk to from the

0:45.8

athletic and Fox Sports it's Bruce Feldman he has a piece up now on what is next

0:50.0

for Alabama let's start at least with the news today. Did you get a sense of this from anybody?

0:55.9

Was this kind of lingering as it broke this afternoon? Give us your own timeline of understanding

1:00.8

the story. Yeah, I didn't some TV today, Ryan,

1:04.8

and when I was leaving the studio,

1:06.7

it was around 11 o'clock Pacific time.

1:10.7

I got a text from somebody that said be on the lookout hearing that Sabin is

1:15.6

retiring tonight and that kind of surprised me and then I texted somebody else

1:19.5

who said they had heard something about him stepping down.

1:23.4

They didn't say it was tonight.

1:24.9

They didn't know they thought something could be imminent,

1:27.5

was what I was described.

1:29.0

So when I got home, I reached out to somebody who's not a coach, but somebody who knows Nick

1:34.4

Sabin really well. And that person said they hadn't heard that, but they also

1:39.6

said it wouldn't surprise me and then we started talking about it and it got me thinking

1:43.4

back to something last week was the Rose Bowl and after the game I was standing by

1:48.2

the Michigan locker room and saving it came down the the ramp in the Rose Bowl.

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