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

Um, you know, then it took off again.

Really the more dramatic change before the nineteen seventy one season.

Was the implementation of the wishbone offense, right?

And uh and it's funny, they kept it so secret that some players didn't even know about the the offense until training camp opened in the fall.

Um, but they put the offense in and and they reeled off an 11-1 record that year, starting with a victory over UFC at the LA Coliseum in the return match uh that McKay and Brian had agreed to.

Um and

The turnaround was widely credited to the scheme change.

Solidifies it, you know, and and you know, we're seeing the game in color television now, right?

Which we may didn't have, at least not widely, in the sixties, right?

So I mean that that red

Jersey really pops, you know, the the crimson tide.

The I mean the the Steelie Dan song films.

Yeah, numbers on the helmet.

Um so so it's it's it's all coming together.

Um, you know, and of course the the the houndstooth hat just becomes iconic.

You got two great hats in sports in the seventies, Tom Landry and Bear Bryan, and they just become known for the hats as much as anything.

Um go to a game right now.

Well go to a game

But what's interesting is the latter part of the decade, the defense stands out after that that big offensive transition to start in nineteen seventy, um, including a moment in the in the nineteen seventy-nine Sugar Bowl.

Um, Penn State, their the Alabama's trailing Penn State six three late in the third quarter.

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