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

You know, and it's fair to wonder if there were political messages being sent as well, because in this case, both Notre Dame and Michigan State had integrated teams.

Yeah, and and I

You know, I I you know you you hear more kind of some things behind the scenes that that he had done or some thoughts or things that he had said, and we'll kind of get into that.

But you know, the flip side of that to me is that

You know, he had so much clout, you know, and you know, by the mid sixties, especially, he's won those those three championships, you know, could have had a fourth, you know, and maybe he's being punished because he hadn't been more proactive for integration.

But you just wonder, like, could he have exercised his clout that he had?

You know, what would have been the cost to him?

Like the you know, the same time Dean Smith coming in.

who hasn't won a national championship won't win another national championship until the nineteen eighties, you know, and he's taking a risk to integrate his team and he's getting hung in effigy, you know, in in the from trees in North Carolina.

Now here in in in Alabama, um, a much more established Bear Bryant is is not going out and and taking that risk.

Yeah.

And it it's kinda hard to pin Bear Bryant down, you know, where you stood on things.

Like so he had one quote

we said something in effect on Martin Luther King, said I don't necessarily agree with everything Martin Luther King says, but I I do see the wisdom, you know, in in his beliefs.

And you know, for the record, you know, like Malcolm X didn't agree with everything that Martin Luther King said either.

So, you know, the fact that

Fair Bryant wasn't in a hundred percent agreement with him.

That doesn't necessarily put him on one side or another.

Just on a on a personal note, um kind of capturing both the um

Both the value of football there and kind of the the sense of of racism you know almost in entrenched in the state.

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