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: How the Crimson Tide Took Over College Football (Part 1) · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Hey, they gave him a

I guess if you if you bless the university with your presence after coming from Alabama, you deserve a stadium name.

But you know, Wade did the opposite of Elaine Kiffin, though, because he stuck it out through the entire season.

Winds up leading the team to a 10-0 record.

Then he personally recommended his successor, Frank Thomas, who went nine and one in his first season.

So pretty rare to take over a job of an undefeated team.

And then he lived up to it or came as close as he could with the nine and one record.

Low Bryant did seem to get the hang of the coaching thing pretty quickly.

He only had one losing record in his entire career.

That came ten years in during his first season at Texas A and M.

Okay, Chuck.

Paul Bryant was born on September eleventh, nineteen thirteen, the eleventh of twelve children.

Grew up in Morrow Bottom, Arkansas.

It was a place of limited options, right?

He remained motivated throughout his life by that fear of having to go back to a life of plowing and shopping cotton for fifty cents a day.

When he's a teenager though, he had the opportunity to make a whole dollar in one minute if he would wrestle a bear that was brought to a theater by a traveling promoter.

He didn't make it the whole minute, so he didn't get the money, but he did get a nickname that lasted a lifetime.

Now there's also possible that he got the nickname because of his size.

He was a guy that was big enough to get noticed by the high school football coach when he walked by the field during practice.

The coach said, Hey, come over here.

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