J.A. Adande

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1,096 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Chuck ToddCast · The Paul Finebaum Interview: Alabama’s Past, Present & Uncertain Future · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

The you know, words to that effect.

So you still have the ability to play or not play players and to control teams that way.

And yes, they have the ability to leave a lot easier than they used to, but for purposes of getting your team to function at its utmost, you still can utilize, hey, do you want to play or not?

You know, do you want to play here or not?

You're here, regardless of where you end up, you're here at Alabama for the duration of this season.

And if you don't get in line with what I want, you're not going to play.

So I I think they still have more control.

Just because they feel like they've lost a little bit of control, it feels like it's all gone away.

Right.

You you talk about how when some people say equality feels like injustice to them, uh, you know, it's it's indicative of of how they

viewed things that it you know before, how they viewed the status quo originally.

But I think these coaches have forgotten the fact they do they still determine playing time and they're still in charge of that.

And that could go a long way toward towards maintaining some semblance of control.

And along with our executive producer and partner, Steve Hole, we'd like to thank Andrew Sampson, the head of program, and our production partner, Showboat Media, Kevin Kennedy, our producer, and Meredith Bioli, our researcher.

The Chuck ToddCast · Alabama: The Making of Nick Saban’s Football Empire (Part 2) · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, the the cynic would say that was it being done to curry favor with the associated press voters, right?

The sports writers who were voting for the national championship.

Uh by the way there's one story, right, of of an assistant they had an assistant coach, they had a black assistant coach or or black staffer, and they had him don an Alabama uniform and stand near Bryant, so it would look like they had a black player on the

on the team for the people watching on T V.

People.

So in our last episode we talked about Jim Murray's character characterizations of Alabama when he went there in nineteen sixty one.

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