Damon West
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's a voicemail and a text message from the director of football operations at the University of Alabama, the whale.
The biggest program in America with the best coach to ever do it.
And here's what the voicemail said.
Hey, Damon Dabo called Coach Saban last night.
Coach Saban can't wait to hear your story.
He said, how does August 21st, 7.30 p.m.
work for your calendar?
Mick, I laughed out loud.
I didn't have a calendar, man.
I didn't need a calendar at that point.
Right, right.
Just like that, Mick, Dabo opens the biggest door to college football, and Dabo didn't stop there because Kirby Smart calls.
Lincoln Riley, Chip Kelly, Lane Kiffin, Ryan Day, Mack Brown, they all pull up my phone.
When are you coming to talk to my team?
So the dream is real.
It's happening, man.
But the biggest event hadn't happened yet.
I hadn't met that second servant leader.
So it was August of 2018.
One year after that presentation at Clemson, my phone rings out of the blue that day.