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Alabama staff writer for @Bama_247 , part of @247Sports and @CBSSports . Previously covered Alabama for @aldotcom and NFL’s Bills and Patriots for @espn .

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5 years
That’s 13 touchdowns tonight. The Bills have scored 13 touchdowns this season.
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Here was Todd McShay's way-too-early 2023 mock draft from May 2022: 1. CJ Stroud 2. Bryce Young 3. Will Anderson 4. Jaxon Smith-Njigba 5. Jalen Carter 6. Anthony Richardson 7. Jordan Addison 8. Will Levis 9. Tyler Van Dyke 10. Eli Ricks Ricks remains on the board at pick 251.
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Nick Saban on ABC about Toledo CB Quinyon Mitchell: "He was our No. 1 guy in the portal last year to try to get him to come out of the portal, and he would never get in the portal."
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Donald Trump cheered loudly as he’s shown on video board in Bryant-Denny Stadium.
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Lorenzo Alexander says he was told at start of second half that Vontae Davis quit and retired.
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Nick Saban eats an oatmeal creme pie on the ABC set during the third round of the NFL draft. “They never even sent me a free box,” Saban says when asked about the publicity he’s given Little Debbie over the years.
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Kalen DeBoer's message to players considering transfer portal: "Give me a chance."
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Nate Oats: “We don’t have to be a football school or a basketball school. We just win championships."
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Saban: "We won the SEC. We beat the No. 1 team in the country, which everybody thought on the committee was the No. 1 team in the country. They won 29 straight games. If we needed to do something to pass the eye test, I guess that probably contributed to it significantly. If you…
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John Metchie on game-winning catch frmo Bryce Young: “9 just gave me a route. I ran the route he called. So it all go to the quarterback. The kid’s the GOAT. Just following the general, man."
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Tony Mitchell has been suspended from the team until Alabama gathers more information about the situation. "Everybody's got an opportunity to make choices and decisions. There's no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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Alabama QB Bryce Young declares for the 2023 NFL draft. "Coming here was the best decision of my life. I'm forever grateful for the University of Alabama."
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Alabama students serenading Florida with the FSU war chant in the closing minutes and Tide up by almost 30.
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Saban: We were 2nd in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player. But I don’t know if we’re going to be able to sustain that in the future because more and more people are doing it
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2 years
Nick Saban says 25 players on Alabama last season earned NIL revenue totaling $3 million and did it “the right way.” Saban speaking at a 50-day countdown event for the World Games in Birmingham.
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Kalen DeBoer said his GM at Washington, Courtney Morgan, has phone numbers for Alabama players and their parents and is working to keep them in Tuscaloosa.
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Kalen DeBoer brought one of his right-hand men to Tuscaloosa on the plane Friday night, and he's already making calls to keep players committed to Alabama.
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Alabama AD Greg Byrne is helping out at the concession stand during halftime in Coleman Coliseum.
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Archie Manning in presenting the Manning Award to Bryce Young today: “I always told my boys, you live to play in big games. If you’re a quarterback at the University of Alabama, you’re going to play in a lot of big games."
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3 years
Definitely not in Buffalo anymore.
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Nick Saban said DeVonta Smith has never been in his office once in four years for “anything but something good.” “He’s having a fantastic year and it couldn’t happen to a better guy."
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DeVonta Smith’s first NFL touchdown came in almost the exact same spot in the same building as his 2017 national championship-winning catch.
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Bills LB Lorenzo Alexander said he was told CB Vontae Davis quit the team and retired at halftime of Sunday's game. "It's completely disrespectful," Alexander said.
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Former Alabama and current 49ers TE Cameron Latu (on injured reserve) sits with former Alabama safety Brian Branch on the bench after the 49ers beat the Lions in the NFC championship game.
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2 years
More from Nick Saban tonight: “Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that was a really good Division I player to come to school. It was in the paper. They bragged about it! Nobody did anything about it."
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Bills undrafted rookie kicker Tyler Davis just hit a 64-yard field goal to end practice. He’s mobbed by his teammates.
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5 years
Mark Ingram starred in Alabama’s 2009 title reunion Saturday night, joined Nick Saban on the walk of champions and sat with Tua Tagovailoa on the bench. Then, Sunday morning, his wife unexpectedly gave birth in Tuscaloosa
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1 year
Turns out Mac Jones can throw to the end zone from his own 45-yard line.
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A lateral involving Jakobi Meyers in the fourth quarter?
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Cincinnati CB Coby Bryant: “We got our hat’s off to Alabama. They beat us fair and square."
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Kalen DeBoer on Nick Saban: "100 percent access to everything. I would be a fool if that wasn't the case. I'm gonna ask him that he shows up and gives me at least one thing every day. I'm sure he's going to have 10. I'm gonna be good with that. But at least one thing he sees that…
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Nick Saban says he sits 10 feet apart from his mother, 88, on a park bench. “I say, 'Mom, I’m not giving you a hug today because I love you.’"
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Nick Saban on why he has been so positive: "I don’t want to call it nurturing, but I felt like we needed to do that with this team. Just getting on these guys all the time was not going to help their confidence. It was not going to help the young players develop.”
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Grant Nelson: "We all loved each other. It was tough seeing guys like Aaron Estrada play their last college basketball game. We just told each other we made history. It didn't end the way we wanted to. But we can't hang our heads on this season and we got to use this game as…
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4 months
Kalen DeBoer's introductory press conference will be Saturday at 1 p.m. CT.
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Updated strength of schedule rankings from Jeff Sagarin: Texas: 2nd Alabama: 15th Washington: 26th Ohio State: 31st Oregon: 52nd Michigan: 55th Georgia: 56th Florida State: 66th
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McShay nailed some of those almost a year in advance. The story is Ricks' fall, and his decision to enter the draft as a junior.
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Nick Saban on being part of interception return: “If they run into me, it’s very similiar to running into the goal post. So it’s not a good choice and decision for them. They usually avoid me. I wear a [pink jacket] so they can see me for their safety, not mine."
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"There would be no Georgia without Alabama. We are the standard. We proved that today. We might have had a slow two years, but the standard is here. We are the standard. Block out what everybody else says. David Pollack, we are the standard."
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Bengals QB Andy Dalton announced Wednesday evening on Twitter that about $250,000 has been raised by 10,000 donors, many Bills fans, since the Bengals' game-winning touchdown Sunday.
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Saban: “... [LSU] beat us last year, so they probably has some confidence that they can play well against Alabama. We’re going to have to change the way they think when it comes to that.”
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Nick Saban’s pregame interview with CBS.
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Alabama’s Will Anderson, a likely All-American, on NIL opportunities: “I haven’t really been looking into any NIL deals right now. I’ve just kind of been low key, I’m just worried about the season and waiting until all that stuff after season. My main focus is playing football."
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After having five of his Alabama players chosen in the first 57 picks, Nick Saban jokes on ABC, “if they would’ve come back, I would’ve come back.”
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Nick Saban: “I really enjoy the lake. I play golf every morning. People don’t like the fact that I take a bath on the dock, dive in, soap up, dive in again, rinse off. "It’s kind of the hillbilly in me from West Virginia."
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Nick Saban on Lee Corso picking Alabama: “He’s the oldest, wisest…"
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Alabama coach Nate Oats: “Do you think if Coach K hadn't lost his two non-coonference games at home that he would still be saying that?” Oats: “We 100 percent should be playing basketball."
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Will Anderson: "We can’t relax right now. This is not a time to relax."
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“Coach DeBoer has shown interest in having me at Alabama,” former Washington CB Jabbar Muhammad said.
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NEW: After entering the portal on Friday, Jabbar Muhammad has been fielding interest from every major program in the country. He discusses his portal recruitment with @247Sports
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Peterman: “At the end of day I know where my true identity lies: in Christ. ... Being a child of God, basically. Not finding my identity in football. Just trying to find it in who I really am. I love this game and put everything I have into this game, but can’t let it define me”
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Tua Tagovailoa is expected to be healthy by April and able to participate in a 40-minute throwing session for NFL teams with 60-80 passes ahead of the draft, his agent Leigh Steinberg says
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Alabama freshman F Noah Clowney: "To be honest, to me, I don't really care about the [opponent's ranking] numbers. I want to beat every team that steps foot in front of us."
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3 years
Landon Dickerson accepts the Rimington Trophy by inviting the rest of his offensive linemen on camera.
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6 years
Tyrod Taylor trade will become official Wednesday at 4 PM, at which point Buffalo will save $10.44M against its cap. Dumping that salary without paying $6M roster bonus and getting nearly a 2nd round pick back is a big win for Brandon Beane.
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Texas A&M transfer defensive lineman LT Overton still on his visit to Tuscaloosa, posting this morning from the lake with Nick Saban.
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4 years
Announcement at Davis Wade Stadium that there are bats in the venue that are considered a “high risk for rabies."
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Patriots coach Bill Belichick and Matt Patricia arrive at Alabama’s pro day.
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Alabama AD Greg Byrne statement: "Simply put, Nick Saban is one of the greatest coaches of all time, in any sport, and The University of Alabama is fortunate to have had him leading our football program for the past 17 seasons. Throughout his career as a head coach, his teams…
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3 years
Nate Oats said “somebody from the SEC” told him they could not remember a team stay on the court for as long as Alabama did Sunday to celebrate postgame.
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2 years
If Alabama wants to make a miraculous run to the SEC championship game, it would need to beat Ole Miss and Auburn, have LSU lose at Arkansas — and then sit back and root for … Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M to beat LSU. Would truly bring 2022 full circle.
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Nick Saban on Georgia: “It’s an opportunity to play a good team that not a lot of people think we’re going to have success in. “We all can probably think of some occasion in our life where somebody told us there was something we couldn’t do."
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Auburn's 318 rushing yards were the most by an FBS opponent against Alabama in the Nick Saban era, topping Arkansas' 301 in 2007, according to @collegefb_ref .
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Nick Saban said he and Miss Terry have coffee cups that say "Mr. Right" and "Mrs. Always Right."
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“Just got to take it to the chin like a man,” a distraught Alabama LB Christian Harris says.
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Cowbells salute Tua Tagovailoa as he is carted past the Mississippi State bench and into the tunnel.
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Phil Mathis crashes Will Anderson and John Metchie’s postgame Zoom. The three captains from today’s game.
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Alabama remaining WRs on scholarship for 2024: Kendrick Law Kobe Prentice Jalen Hale Emmanuel Henderson Jaren Hamilton Cole Adams Amari Jefferson Aeryn Hampton Rico Scott
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[Updated] Oldest NFL running backs under contract for 2019: 1. Frank Gore, 35, BUF (5/14/83) 2. Chris Ivory, 30, BUF (3/22/88) 3. LeSean McCoy, 30, BUF (7/12/88) 4. Andre Ellington, 30, TB (2/3/89) 5. Rex Burkhead, 28, NE (7/2/90)
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Please join me in welcoming @Marcel_LJ as ESPN’s next Bills reporter, beginning in July. After six enjoyable seasons in Buffalo, my wife and I decided last year to move to Birmingham this summer as she transitions from her medical residency at @UBuffalo to practice.
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Former Alabama center Sylvester Croom was named today as part of the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame class.
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Georgia OL Jamaree Salyer on Jameson Williams saying Alabama would’ve won CFP if he didn’t get hurt: “Game’s over. We scored more points.”
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Alabama F Noah Clowney: "I kind of like [playing on the] road a little more. You're winning the game and the last 4-minute media timeout, you're seeing people get out their seats and getting ready to leave -- I like that."
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Will Anderson on new Alabama QB Ty Simpson: “I went up to him, I said you don’t have to worry about me hitting you right now. But just know that in the springtime, you gonna see me all the time. I’m gonna always be in your face."
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DeMeco Ryans on Will Anderson: "He's one of the toughest guys I've ever been around. We have to drag him off the field. He's not coming off." Sounds about right for Will.
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#Texans coach DeMeco Ryans on Will Anderson Jr., and C.J. Stroud 'Will has been tremendous, all of our young guys. Nobody has said this, but we should have the offensive and defensive rookie of the year. Both guys have stepped up big time for us, C.J. with the offense and Will on…
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Keon Keeley, the No. 3 overall recruit in the 2023 class, confirmed he'll return to Alabama in 2024 after not playing as a freshman. "[I'm] just preparing to be ready, be ready to play."
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Kalen DeBoer asked about what he wants in QB. He said they've won with different style QBs. "Our offense will be quarterback-driven. ... We need to make sure the skill around him is all a threat to score from anywhere on the football field."
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Alabama DB Brian Branch asked by a reporter if he can remember the last time he missed a tackle. “Coach Saban knows."
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Nate Oats is done with his players reacting to officials’ calls. “I literally don’t want any more reactions to calls, period. … I don’t care. I told them, I’m going to screw calls up on purpose in practice just to see if you can move onto the next play with zero reaction."
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Alabama's Bill O'Brien-coached offense finishes with 496 total yards in the Sugar Bowl. It averaged 9.0 yards per play, the second-highest for a bowl game in program history after it averaged 10.6 in the 1935 Rose Bowl.
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Will Anderson becomes the first former Alabama player to win AP defensive rookie of the year since his current coach, DeMeco Ryans, did in 2006.
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Nick Saban said he’s being “beat up on both ends” — he can’t “raise hell” with people at the facility and his wife, Terry, is "raising hell" with him at home.
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6 years
A sexual toy has just been tossed onto the end zone behind where the Patriots are lined up. An official is kicking it off the field.
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Nick Saban praised Alabama’s men’s basketball team for their mental toughness in their SEC tournament games against Tennessee and LSU.
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Devonta Smith: “Seeing the people back at home, it hit me hard. I kind of wanted to cry."
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Nick Saban asking again for crowd noise from Alabama fans. “This has to be something relentless. … It can’t be every now and then.” Saban says he tries to get players to go hard every play and the “fans have to do the same thing."
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Isaiah Bond said Alabama’s last-second play is called “gravedigger.” “We’re going to put them in the grave after that play. It’s normally an end of the game, put them to sleep type of play.”
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6 years
Can hear players yelling “You like that!?!” from Bills locker room as they return from field. Can’t imagine who that is referencing.
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Tre’Davious White calls Rob Gronkowski’s hit a “dirty shot,” saying Gronkowski “could have broke my neck. ... I got a son [to raise].”
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Greg Byrne said Alabama's NIL collective, Yea Alabama, has gained 1,000 members since Kalen DeBoer's hire. Byrne is intentionally wearing a Yea Alabama quarter zip on @finebaum to advertise it.
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2 years
Nate Oats said on his radio show tonight that he spoke to SEC coordinator basketball officials Mike Eades, who also coordinates AAC officials, and was told the no-call for goal-tending was correct at the end of the Alabama-Houston game.
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3 years
Najee Harris has become Alabama’s all-time leading rusher.
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4 months
Greg Byrne said Alabama had prepared an hour-by-hour plan on how to handle Saban's retirement already in place. The staff "divided up the roster" and proactively told them who to contact, and to stay in contact. "We got to stay together through this thing" was the message.
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Most of Alabama’s Final Four basketball team in Bryant-Denny Stadium to be recognized during A-Day.
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Alabama DB Terrion Arnold said Nick Saban set out rat traps around the practice facility this week — so they wouldn’t fall into the “trap” game and eat the rat poison before playing Kentucky.
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Seth McLaughlin to @Bucknuts247 : “Telling coach (Nick) Saban was hard. He told me he would like me to stay. He told me I always have a home in Alabama if I need one.”
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Former Alabama CB Eli Ricks was asked Thursday at the NFL scouting combine if he would take Bryce Young or Will Anderson as the No. 1 pick. Ricks: "I'm taking Eli Ricks, to be honest."
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Nick Saban asked about how Jalen Milroe's performance will translate into the future. Picks up his coke bottle. "This is a coke bottle, not a crystal ball."
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Nick Saban tells Pat McAfee that "it's kind of laughable" that people think he might retire soon. Saban: "I feel great right now. I love it. We've got lots of challenges right now. I'm looking forward to it. We're all in."
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Saban: "There is cause and effect when you make choices and decisions that put you in bad situations."
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2 years
Nick Saban says 25 players on Alabama last season earned NIL revenue totaling $3 million and did it “the right way.” Saban speaking at a 50-day countdown event for the World Games in Birmingham.
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Mike Rodak
8 months
Nick Saban on "Hey Coach" radio show tonight: "The players need to understand, somebody said success is a lousy teacher, that it makes smart people think they can't lose. Paranoid people always think somebody's after them. If you're going to be a player at Alabama, you got to be…
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Jaden Shackelford announces he is returning to Alabama.
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