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That's 855-212-4CBS. We've done a lot of talking about the shift and coaching here in football. Pete Carroll is gone. Nick Saban is gone.

Bill Belichick, he got the boot early this morning and nothing lasts forever. And we've talked about that. Nobody is sticking around all the damn time. A big shout out to Ryan Hickey for holding it down for us in New York City. And so we got so much more to do over the next couple of hours.

Thank you so much to Armando Salguero for joining. You never know what will take place in that regard. And so we got more to do. I do want to spend some time talking about Nick Saban. I do want to get into what might happen with Alabama.

And there's just a lot to do. But we got a couple of folks who've been waiting here on the phone line. So let's go ahead and talk to them first.

I want to talk about Nick Saban because there's some big ramifications that extend past Alabama. I mean, we got to start talking about what happens with some of the recruits and what happens next. But before we do any of that, hey, 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. Let's go to Miami and talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, you are on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Dave? Who has his own bus in Vegas?

Not me, right? You want me to get on a bus and go all across America for people to do what? Just see me in person? Like, what am I supposed to do? Wave your hand like Miss America. You want me to walk around and wave my hand like Miss America? Now, bro, we're from the Bronx, man. That's never going to happen.

You know, just put it out there and just let it go over your head. Anyway, I want to talk about Dynasties. See, Dynasties did exist in the past. We go all the way back to John Wooden, all his championships. But, Dan, it took another 20 years to replicate that. Same thing with Joe Torre. He leaves New York and what happened?

And they're still trying to come back from that. You know, Dynasties is possible, but I don't think they're sustainable. That's all I got, Joe. Thanks, man. Have a good night.

Enjoy your time out there, man. Take a look at the Golden State Warriors. I can look at Steph Curry and Draymond Green, Klay Thompson. You can consider them a dynasty. That dynasty looks to be done. You could thank Draymond for kicking people in the nuts.

That's one of the main reasons. But the fact is, whether you happen to be the Chicago Bulls, the New York Yankees, the Golden State Warriors, you happen to be the New England Patriots, nothing lasts forever. Welcome to the story of life. I think people who are alive long enough, you realize that, man, what you had and it was good, ain't nothing lasting forever. That's not how the world works. Sorry.

I wish I had a better answer, but no, nothing lasts forever. 855-212-4CBS. It's 855-212-4CBS. We got Dan in Wisconsin. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Dan? Hey, speaking of the Packer Nation, it's great being on house money and for a lot of years, even when Mike McCarthy was coach, we had the better team and we had to have heartbreak.

It's great being on the other end and I don't care how it ends. As a Packer fan, I am so satisfied with the season, but it's great being on the other end where we could be the spoilers, where in the past, we had the heartbreak of Eli Manning coming into the Green Bay or Kaepernick or Mike Vick. And it's funny how McCarthy was part of a lot of those. So as a Packer Nation, we're hoping, well, maybe it's a McCarthy fan. Maybe he just runs into the buzzsaw and maybe this is the year where we can be the spoiler. You got some high hopes here for the Green Bay Packers getting ready to take on Dallas. Why do you got some high hopes? If I were a Green Bay Packers fan, I'd be happy right now with what the hell is going on. Aaron Rodgers is making all types of terrible jokes and getting cursed out by Jimmy Kimmel. And then you got a quarterback who's his first real foray into the league. He's throwing 30 plus touchdowns like I would be happy with where the Packers are.

You got a QB. But yeah, if you beat the Cowboys, everybody would appreciate that. But you got to appreciate what's taking place so far, you know? Oh, yeah, I do.

And I do. No matter what the score is, if we lose, I'm still satisfied. It's like, like I said, we're on house running. But you know, it's nice being on this end and being the underdog one. The Cowboys are better in every aspect. They're better on offense, defense and specialty. So we are not supposed to win this game. But without a shot of a doubt.

But you bring up a good point. And thank you, Dan, for calling from Wisconsin. Can you imagine if the Green Bay Packers beat the Dallas Cowboys in a wild card round? First of all, Mike McCarthy is going to get the boot. Like they're going to fire Mike McCarthy if he loses. Jerry Jones won't wait until the game is done to step out onto the field and tell him, man, you out of here.

I don't know. Schottenheimer or Dan Quinn, one of these two dudes will go ahead and take over. But the Packers for the Packers to be the team tonight out knockout Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy's is cooked. And when he stands on the sidelines, I have never seen a head coach in my life.

He looks like he's sweating. It's like he has a feeling that Jerry Jones is going to walk behind him during the game, tap him on the shoulder and tell him just to go out there and take a hike. And Mike McCarthy, yeah, we got seven, seven openings right now in the NFL, seven open positions, seven vacancies in the league. Well, look, we might have eight come Monday if Mike McCarthy loses. Jerry Jones ain't going to waste no time and getting rid of him.

Not by any stretch. You know, we spoke about Robert Kraft in the last break and why he got rid of Bill Belichick and what have you and talking about choosing coaches. Robert Kraft isn't exactly Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones might do, I don't know, some old racist things from a long time ago. Robert Kraft wants to go to the massage parlor. But Robert Kraft did say what the hell he's looking for in his next head coach. Take a listen to this. You know, we're looking for someone who can help us get back to the playoffs and win. And that's, believe me, after my family, this is really one of the two most important assets in my life. And I am very upset when we don't win games and it carries the whole week.

So I promise you, I'll be focused to do what I can, the best I can do to make sure we're putting ourselves in the best long term position to win for many years. Ryan, did this, why does he sound like that? Did he just leave the massage parlor? Why does he sound like that, Ryan?

He might have. I mean, we know before big events, that's where his place for the pregame, if you will, is. That's what we call it. The pregame? That's what we call it now? Well, you know, family friendly, we'll call it the pregame. A lot of nerves before the game that you got to make sure are not there come game time.

Relief of the nerves. Yes, there we go. It makes all the sense in the world. Well, he did talk about why and what he's looking forward to. And despite getting rid of Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft says he hopes that he finds a lot of success wherever the hell he ends up.

Listen to this. It'll be difficult to see him in a cutoff hoodie on the sideline, but I will always continue to wish him continued success, except when he's playing our beloved Patriots. Oh, OK. All right.

Yeah. Well, where Bill Belichick goes, I have no idea. Just go go to Los Angeles, go coach for the Chargers, go out there, connect with Justin Herbert.

You know, there's there's so many talks and rumors. Oh, Belichick to the Falcons. Falcons, the Bellas. Look, man, if Belichick coaches the Falcons, how long is he sticking around? And then the most important question is, who the hell is throwing the ball? It ain't going to be Desmond Ritter.

It's not going to be Heinecke. Who are you getting to throw the ball? Yeah, Bill Belichick had a lot of success, a crap ton of it because of Tom Brady. But if you don't got somebody to throw the ball, you are not winning in the NFL. We are so far gone of the days of, man, you just got to have defense and you can have an OK quarterback like that's over, man.

If you ain't throwing the rock, if you're not moving the chains, it's not going down. I mean, we in the world right now where running backs are glorified slot receivers. You got the Alvin Kamara's, the Christian McCaffrey's who don't just double or just don't operate by running the ball.

They got to catch it, too. And so, man, Bill Belichick, go see Justin Herbert. I don't know any other team that has an opening that also has a quarterback who I don't want to say has Hall of Fame potential. I think that's off on Justin Herbert, but he certainly has potential to drive you deep into the playoffs. Unfortunately for Justin Herbert, he's missed out on what a lot of dudes and teams would want. And that's a head coach who's not going to blow a game or not forget how many time outs they have or let the clock run at the end of the game. Justin Herbert has been saddled with Anthony Lynn, who didn't know what a clock was. It looked like he tried to manage NFL games with an abacus.

And then you got Staley, who was no better. Get Justin Herbert, Bill Belichick, and then let me know what happens from there. Chris is calling from Tulsa, Oklahoma. You're on CBS Sports Radio, the J.R. Sport Brief Show.

Hey, what's up, Chris? And teams would want. And that's a head coach who's not going to blow a game or not forget how many time outs they have or let the clock run at the end of the game. Justin Herbert has been saddled with Anthony Lynn, who didn't know what a clock was. It looked like he tried to manage NFL games with an abacus.

And then you got Staley, who was no better. Yeah, I don't. What is what is Chris doing? Hey, Ryan, what happened? I ended up talking to my what's that guy about? Am I a mirror? That was my conception.

Listening to yourself, listening to yourself. Yeah, I don't know what that. He's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. What else could he be doing? Right?

Hopefully get a better phone connection. Do they got they got Wi-Fi towers out in Tulsa? I believe so. I hope so. They used to have black Wall Street.

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That's 855-212-4CBS. You know, we listened to one coach who decided to call it a wrap. I was not on the air yesterday traveling around.

I'm live from Las Vegas today. And so one of the things that I missed that I know you, Ryan, discussed is the exit of Nick Saban. And I don't want to call this abrupt because how abrupt can it be when you're now in your early 70s? It's kind of, I don't want to say ridiculous, but it was only a couple of seasons ago where they gave Nick Saban a contract that's going to take him to the year 2030.

Like what? What are we doing? We got another Joe Paterno here. So Nick Saban stepped down yesterday. That was a little bit more of a shock than what took place with Bill Belichick. And Nick Saban has done the media rounds and he sat down with ESPN and he's given his explanations as to why he decided to call it a wrap.

And so you know what? Let's take a listen to Nick Saban on ESPN on why he decided to retire right now. I actually thought that in hiring coaches, recruiting players, that my age started to become a little bit of an issue. People wanted assurances that I would be here for three years, five years, whatever. And that got harder and harder for me to be honest about. And to be honest, this last season was grueling. It was a real grind for us to come from where we started to where we got to. Took a little more out of me than usual. And you know when people mentioned the health issue, it was really just the grind of can you do this the way you want to do it?

Can you do it the way you've always done it and be able to sustain it and do it for the entire season? And if I couldn't make a commitment to do that in the future, the way I think I have to do it, I thought maybe this was the right time based on those two sets of circumstances that, like I said, there's never a good time. But I thought maybe this was the right time. Yeah, come on.

Like he explained a little bit more. NFL head coach and he was in the NFL. Sorry, Nick Saban. You have all that much success there with the Dolphins.

That was a disaster. But whether you're in the NFL, you're in college, early mornings, late nights. Nick Saban does have a wife. He has a family. I mean, to think about the grind that he's going through on a day to day basis year round.

I'm not mad at him for calling it a wrap. And there have been rumors that, you know, maybe he's in ill health. There have been rumors. I got folks telling me from Tuscaloosa, they're like, oh, maybe his wife isn't in the best health. Maybe this is why Nick Saban decided to walk away. Maybe he just got hit with the reality that, man, I thought I was going to last until 2030. What? And he's just like, I can't do it no more. But he also clarified, I'm in good health. And that's not why I stepped away.

Listen to Nick Saban. There's no illness. Mr. Terry's fine.

I'm fine. But it was the can you sustain the season, you know, from just a mental grind standpoint. And, you know, when I was young, you know, I could work till two in the morning, get up at six and be there the next day and be full of energy and go for it. But when you get a little older, that gets a little tougher. And I'm sure a lot of people can relate to that. Yeah.

Yeah. You doing this at 72 and you're yelling at a bunch of teenagers like who's who got the time to wake up and do that? We got people who have kids. They might have one kid.

They don't want to deal with one teenager, let alone a group of 100 of them. Nick Saban's had enough. And if we look at college sports and college athletics, it's changed so much over the past few years.

Name, image and likeness. We got teams switching conferences. I mean, teams out of the Pac-12. It's now the Pac-2 as we got schools going into the Big Ten. There's so many changes, like even if we take a look at at basketball, college basketball.

Where's some of the legends? Where the hell is Coach K like Ryan? What is Coach K? He's sitting around doing a podcast like everybody else, right?

That's right. In the media now. He's sitting around in the media. You got Roy Williams is gone. I mean, it's just it's it's not the same.

And like I said, it's nice to have some new blood out here. And if you think about the season that Nick Saban had to go out, it's not like he went out on top. It's not like he left with another national championship. He got seven total, six of them coming out of playing or coach in Alabama.

Excuse me. This season, it started off like it was it was over this season. Nick Saban had no idea who was going to be his starting quarterback. He had to go back and forth before he gave Milro the ball at the end of the year and said, hey, man, you take us all the way. It wasn't until they beat George or the Bulldogs that they were actually in the college football playoff. Not the greatest of seasons didn't have the greatest of starts, but how they finished is to be admired.

And so Nick Saban, he also gave credit to his his players this year because he said that this year. Yeah, a little tougher than most. I think that my role was a little different this year. I was more involved with the defense, had to be more involved with the defense. That took a little more time, put a little more stress, you know, on me. Made me feel like maybe I wasn't doing as good a job as I needed to in other parts of our team.

And I just have a high standard for how I do things. And if I can't if I don't feel like I'm living up to that standard, I'm really disappointed. I wasn't disappointed in the season. I wasn't disappointed in the team. I wasn't disappointed in the players. In fact, this team was fun to coach. It was a they came a long ways. And I was really proud, you know, of the way everybody bought in and did what they did to have the success that we had.

But at the same time, I felt like I could have done a better job if I was younger. You know what I appreciate? Somebody who knows when to move on. And I'm not just talking about retirement, I'm not talking about the end of your career or your job, or now you need a golden parachute to move on.

I appreciate anybody who has the awareness to just go, it's time for me to walk away. It was only but a couple of years ago where Nick Saban agreed to coach this damn team until 2030 for about twelve and a half million dollars for almost the next decade. Like, let's let's think about that.

But he decided to walk away. Like how much more damn money does Nick Saban need? Are you going to buy an extra boat or is he going to travel the world?

Is he building a spaceship? I think he is set for the rest of his life. And I think his family generations are going to be set for ever for a very, very long time. And so I give Nick Saban credit for walking away. But this does have major implications for Alabama.

Who the hell is going to be the next coach? I mean, every single season, you're expecting Alabama to come out of the SEC, stomp on some other team's heads. You expect them to have the best recruits. We already seen or have seen a couple of recruits decide to leave.

And that's what happens. A lot of cases, the recruits out of high school, they ain't showing up because they love the school. They love the campus. They're showing up because of the commitment that they got from that head coach. We've seen this a lot already with Deion Sanders. Why the hell were so many recruits saying, I'm going to Boulder, Colorado?

I don't think they were going to freeze their ass off. I think they were going so they could actually be amongst one of the greatest football players of all time. Part of Nick Saban's job isn't just to coach the football players. It's to actually make money for the program. And we see this college football coach might as well be the CEO of the entire program because it's his job to help make money. And in most cases, the football programs, man, they finance so much other crap. My apologies to rowing and swimming.

My bad. But they finance a lot of the other athletic programs and whatever the hell else is going on. And so in Nick Saban, this isn't just a loss from a football perspective. Alabama, they could be losing some bread. Alabama might not necessarily get the same matchups on television. And you know what? Let's also keep in mind, Alabama wasn't always sitting on top of the world.

Shout outs to Brandi and Mase. There was a point in time where nobody was thinking about Alabama. I mean, if you think about the most successful coaches in Alabama history, you got to think about Bear Bryant.

And that's in the 60s and 70s. And you got to go to now and what we've seen with Nick Saban. And so what comes next for Alabama?

I could tell you this much. It ain't going to be what they got since this dude took over. And there was a point in time, ironically, when Nick Saban took this job to coach Alabama, he was swearing up and down to everybody when he was still coaching the Miami Dolphins that he wasn't going to leave. That Nick Saban wasn't going to leave the NFL, that he was going to stick around with the Dolphins, that he was not going nowhere.

And what happens? He moves back into college and he has some of the biggest successes. He is the most successful coach that we have seen here over the past twenty five years.

So, yeah, I guess he lied when he was with the Dolphins. But I don't think you want to take away anything that he's done over the last 20, 25 years. Shout outs to Nick Saban on his way up on out the door. And Ryan, what you think Nick Saban is going to do now? Are you going to sit at home with his grandkids or we got to look at him on TV? Like what you think is next for Nick Saban? Zero percent chance he's sitting on the dock and driving the boat the rest of his life.

I would say TV in all reality. My hope is that he's like create this position, college football president, run the sport. They need him.

He needs them. Perfect marriage. College. So what would he work for the NCAA? What would the college football president do? Get the sport under wraps. Let's get rules that everyone can agree on.

Let's get everyone on a level playing field. I mean, just get some, you know, basically be Roger Goodell as he worked for the NCAA. I guess maybe that, you know, maybe not. You know, that's what you are. That's what the NCAA needs. Someone who knows what they're talking about and knows what they're doing. That's I think that, you know, he himself could save that entire organization right now.

That's frankly on its last limb. Everybody hates Roger Goodell and he makes 60 million dollars a year. So I wouldn't be mad at Nick Saban if he wanted to be hated and make 60.

Why not? But we'll see what happens. He got options.

And that's that's what happens when you have success. You got options. Shout outs to Nick Saban for walking away.

It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. You know who else has options? The Chicago Bears got options. What the hell do they do next with Justin Fields? Their general manager, Ryan Pols, spoke.

We'll hear what he had to say on the other side of the break. And speaking of options, we're going to talk about some of the coaching options for Alabama as they move forward. We've already had a coach say, I ain't leaving, so don't worry about me. Around New Year's, we get a little obsessed with changing ourselves and forgetting the things we're already doing right. Like taking our supplements every morning or scheduling me time into our day. Therapy helps you recognize those victories and keep up the good work in the new year without changing everything. BetterHelp offers affordable online therapy so you can try New Year's same you with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com slash grow today to get 10 percent off your first month. That's BetterHelp.

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Sport Brief show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. You can tell I'm the man. I'm the man. I'm the man.

How about that? Nick Saban was the man and Bill Belichick was the man and Pete Carroll was the man. And now they're all retired now.

Now, no, not retired. Bill Belichick still wants to coach. We know that Pete Carroll is going to be an adviser.

I wonder how long that is going to last. And I think the one dude that we will see or we won't see back on the sidelines would happen to be Nick Saban. And so what happens next at Alabama?

I mean, some of the names I've already been thrown around as to, you know, who will go ahead and take over. Some of these individuals have a history with Alabama. It feels like every big assistant at some point in time has passed through Tuscaloosa. I mean, we can look at someone like Kirby Smart.

How about this? You got to go all the way out west. You think about somebody like Dan Lanning out in Oregon. I mean, there was a point in time where he was on the staff there for Nick Saban, I want to say back in like 2015. And so all the success that he's had with with Oregon and the Ducks and we got to see what happens in the future with Bo Nix. But the fact is, is he going to go to Alabama? Well, he didn't waste any time by letting everybody know. In particular, his own athletes.

Dan Lanning went on IG and social media and the Ducks made it clear he's not going anywhere. Listen to his announcement. Who has goals and aspirations? Raise your hand up. Everybody got goals and aspirations.

You know how you get those? You be the best where you're at. That's how you reach goals and aspirations.

That's how great things happen. It's not about worrying about the next thing. It's about worrying what's right in front of you.

Six inches right in front of your face. I want to remind you guys what that means. You guys just got here, don't know, right?

It means something to be in Oregon Duck. Everybody makes what? They all make commitments to things that you're going to do. A lot of stars.

The world doesn't have a lot of what? Finishers. We're finishers. I want to be here in Eugene for as long as Eugene will have me.

This place has everything that I could possibly ever want. There's a little bit of a problem in society today with people looking for what's next and where where there's an opportunity. And the reality is, you know, the grass is not always greener. In fact, the grass is damn green in Eugene.

Damn. I guess I guess if you make that announcement with Ice Cube playing in the back, it makes it even makes it even more official. Shout outs to Dan Lanning. Somebody else who's been through Alabama as the offensive coordinator is Lane Kiffin. We know right now Lane Kiffin is running the show out at Ole Miss.

And then we got some words, a little bit of advice. How about Greg McElroy? He says Lane Kiffin? He says he ain't he ain't going to Alabama. This is what he had to tell the good old folks at ninety four or five.

Jocks FM. Y'all Kiffin ain't even an option. I'm just going to tell you right now, let's just get out in front of it and just stop. It ain't happening. They burned too many bridges in Tuscaloosa.

I know he scored a lot of points. It ain't happening. So it's Lane Kiffin is out. Out. Not an option. Will not have his name vetted. Not an option.

So you can remove him. I think Norvell is a very real possibility. And then I wouldn't sleep on some of the other guys that have been mentioned as well, whether it be some combination of Kayla, the poor Marcus Freeman. Listen, folks, I've already got my friends down in Tallahassee.

They have reached out, they don't hit me up and they're just like, oh, how is this going to be the case? And I know in a lot of spaces, people take a look at the ACC and then they just say to themselves, oh, we're not the SEC. And then you would have somebody like like Mike Norvell decide to leave. I have no idea who the next head coach is for Alabama.

I don't know who would be the best candidate. I don't. To be honest.

And I get paid to have an opinion. But Nick Saban leaves behind such a shadow that you're going to be hard pressed. Whoever comes through ain't necessarily filling his shoes, not by any stretch of the imagination. What you had with Nick Saban was special. I mean, we could think about the gap between Bear Bryant and six championships. And then what we got out of Nick Saban, that's that's once in a lifetime. And that's not to say Alabama is going to fall into the toilet.

That will not be the case. They're still going to go out there and be competitive. But we've seen over the past few years, even with Nick Saban, you've had other teams catch up. The Georgia Bulldogs have finally put in their two cents and they've had success. And so I want to say the playing field has been it's been leveled just a little bit. And with Nick Saban gone, I expect things to remain a status quo.

Alabama will still be out there competing for national championships, but they're no longer the super top dog at the top of the heat. Eight five five two one two four CBS. That's eight five five two one two four CBS. Brian is calling from Alabama. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Brian? Hey, JR.

Thanks for taking my call. You sure are being hard on Alabama. I want to start this off by we did win a national championship with Stallings. If you can remember, we took down a 14 point favorite Miami with the best play I never even saw when they stole the candy from the baby.

Teague did that or whoever did it. And Copeland and Curry destroyed Miami's best of the best. So you're hard on the coach. Now, yes, we're lucky to hold on. Hold on.

Hold on, Brian. Please tell me you said I'm hard on Alabama and then you said I've been hard on the coach. So explain what what did I say specifically that leads you to say such as a bear?

He last had championship in 78, 79, and he coached in 1983. So I'm not correct in that. I'm just saying no, I didn't ask you that. No, no, I didn't ask you that. I asked you.

No, hold on. You said that I've been hard on Alabama and that I've been hard on the coach. I'm not asking you about the history of who won what in six championships here in six championships there. I'm not asking you that. I'm asking you what I said that leads you to say what you said. Well, you said that they almost did nothing between the bear and Nick Saban, but we did.

We won a champion. What I what I said is no. What I said is, is that when you have the success that they had to have one guy who's won six championships and another guy who wins six championships.

It's hard to go out there and put together that stretch of success. That's what I said. Oh, I agree with you completely. One hundred percent.

Yes. But I do want all your listeners to know. Go back in time. We're from Alabama and we bleed crimson all the way back to the red sticks and white sticks that Andrew Jackson tried to wipe out. And back to the days when we took down Hernando Distoto and all his men with sticks. Bring a big stick if you want to take on the tide. OK, I didn't know if we were getting ready for war. We're getting ready to play football. Oh, my God.

Please do do me a favor. What is what does that have to do with anything? Is Alabama is every human being in the state going to go play for the Crimson Tide and I get Homer ism. I get that sometimes you got to come to reality like Alabama is not what it used to be, even with Nick Saban. I just explain that.

I mean, that's a prime example of, you know, people here in most cases, they only hear what they want to hear. You tell me in any other case in time in Alabama's history, I talk about the state, I talk about wars or Spain, I talk about none of that crap. I'm talking about football. You tell me, besides the two dudes that I mentioned in Bear Bryant and also taking a look here at Nick Saban, you tell me when they had this biggest successes. It's been those two dudes.

It's flat and it's period. That's not to discount any of the other championships. But if you got to take a look at some of the other coaches that come by, things have not been all glamorous throughout the course of their history. And so when you are walking away or when one of the biggest coaches and names is walking away, I'm supposed to believe that that things are going to get better. Do we ought to take a walk through history here just in sports in general?

You want to go through some dynasties like when the main dudes walk away, it's over. Like we're staring one of those in the face right now with the Golden State Warriors, like they legitimately might have to have a conversation with Steph Curry and say, hey, man, we suck right now. We don't think we're going to win or compete. Do you want to stay?

Do you want to leave? Like those are the conversations to be had. I mean, you think about the New York Yankees and their dynasty. Man, yeah, they've always won games, but when they were really winning in the late 90s, early 2000s, you get to a point where it's just like, OK, now it's over. And now here we are in 2023, 2024. Yankee fans haven't seen a championship since 2009. And it's almost like it's their birthright. Nothing lasts forever.

If that was the case, then Alabama would just automatically be getting championships every single year. That's that's not the way the world works. You've got to have ups. You've got to have downs.

It's it's all about balance. We talked to earlier on in the show, Armando Salguero. Man, we talked about the Rams. I'm surprised the Rams. Who just won a championship a couple of seasons ago, they sold their souls to bring in all these talents and all these players to do so. They basically had to start from scratch. We got conversations as to whether or not Sean McVeigh is going to stick around as their head coach. And here they are back in the postseason with 10 victories.

And that that reset that they were having, it seems shorter than anything that we thought. Nobody sits on top forever. I mean, we know who the premier teams and leagues and franchises are here in North America. You could talk about the Alabamas and the Yankees of the world, the Lakers, the Celtics, the dot. Like we know the premier sports brands. We know the teams that people gravitate towards, the ones that have had success.

Nobody does it and nobody wins every single year. It don't happen that way. Sometimes you got to appreciate what you got.

Don't be so damn defensive next time. Hey, Ryan, what are your thoughts? Alabama's come back to earth just a little bit over the past couple of seasons. I expect them to kind of do the same into the future. They'll be good, but they're not going to be steamrolling everybody every year.

I'm with you 100 percent. Dynasty is dead. I mean, I would argue we may never see another dynasty in college football again with the new rules, but definitely Alabama's dynasty is dead because no one is coming in no matter what coach you hire.

Pick your pick whatever one you want. No one's coming in and picking up where Nick Saban left off, because no other coach has been able to accomplish the level of success for the amount of time he's been able to do it in the history of the sport. It's not going to happen.

It's tough doing that. This goes to recruiting. This goes to filling out the rest of of his coaching staff. I don't care who comes in like Nick Saban, man. He could just say, hey, Bill O'Brien, what you doing? Oh, you suck in Houston.

They hate your guts. Hey, come on out here. Yeah, baby, you can't run a franchise in the NFL, but you can certainly come this way and help me run an offense here in college. And this is these are accomplished dudes. And so whether or not you go on to continue to coach and in college, whether you go on to the NFL like Nick Saban went to the NFL and it worked out for them for him, you know, in Miami. Coaching is going to be difficult, not going to be the same. Bringing in recruits is not going to be the same.

It's going to be even more difficult now with the transfer portal. And Nick Saban made it very clear, like one of the reasons that I'm leaving. Let's let's put this to bed. It's not because I didn't want to deal with the changing landscape of college football, because if I got to think about what took place in college basketball. Boeheim, Williams, Krzyzewski, a lot of it took place when the players had a little bit more power and a little bit more say so and what they did with their careers. And Nick Saban wanted to make it very clear name, image and likeness and player empowerment did not run me out of the building.

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