Lane Kiffin
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first heard Apr 2025
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Like that's when we didn't get ripped because he's like, they're going to get ripped anyway. I don't need to, you know, like I need to, when they're feeling good about themselves, bring them down. So I didn't really understand that at first. And now I look back on, man, he was, there's a reason he's the greatest. Wow. Yeah. Do you regard him as the greatest? Yeah, I do.
I think because, you know, to bear Bryant's like legends back then, no offense. They had like unlimited scholarships. Coach Saban did it in an era where there were reduced scholarship numbers.
he also did an error when you're losing coaches left and right you know he lost so many assistant coaches and he just kept winning and i don't think anybody will ever be able to do that again and he couldn't even do that again the way that it's going anyway and now this with the money part and all that stuff that's that's like evening things out that people can't stack the
teams like he did because now your second team and third teams maybe before where they had to sit there and wait they couldn't leave back then now they leave so you lose your backups because someone gives them more money and but how was he able to convince players to sit there be just as good and sit second or third position that's tough I feel like Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying.
Part of his time, they couldn't leave yet. You couldn't transfer. Now you can transfer twice a year. So he still was able at the end to convince some guys to stay, but he started losing so the teams weren't as deep.
that helped a lot but he never changed that was him like there was no relief it never changed like he recruited every day no matter what and he was non-stop and he's relentless people always say okay well why did he win so many championships why was he so good and i was like well there's the process there's the assistant coaches there's the discipline all these different areas right
But really the number one thing that mattered the most, he out-recruited people. He got better players. When you get better players, you win a lot of games. It wasn't just coming there just to come there. They came there because he recruited really hard.
Um, coach didn't do a lot of other things. I didn't know he golfed. I never golfed with him, but he golfed.
interesting you know nick saban and people would joke nick satan you know he was born on halloween was he really his birthday every year's halloween oh yeah so maybe his whole freaking existence was a costume maybe but he did not there was not he wasn't gonna wear a costume or something like that on halloween so there was no like how could he didn't have like halloween parties on your own birthday even put on a little cat tail or something
Because no day was different. Every day was the same. Wow. I will say this. I went to Easter one time at his house. And my kids, they were still living in California with my wife. And because I took the Alabama job and then they came for Easter.
And he invited us over and we went over there and he was different. Now he didn't put on like a bunny costume, but like he was helping the kids with like the Easter eggs. And he had one grandkid at the time. And he was like carrying around and like, And it was totally different than the office Nick Saban that we would see all the time. So that was pretty cool to see that side of him.
Now, he's also so competitive that his grandkid was like one. And all of a sudden, the grandkid found the golden egg while he was with Coach way over there. So Coach also was going to make sure that he won. Yeah. But it was pretty cool to see him like that.
Yeah. Mine were like eight, 10 and 12. Oh God.
I do. I think that, and he mentioned that in that pivot podcast, but I did always think, okay, if he was going to do this, he was going to have to have an, and I used to say, he's going to have to kind of have that college game day spot. Cause he's going to want to still like be involved. You know, he's just so wired all day long to do something for his entire life. Now he ain't,
he's not going to sit around and just, you know, be a grandpa. That's not him. So I think because of that, that's helped a lot. I wouldn't actually be surprised if he came back in the NFL, even, you know, as head coach, because he just, he's so good at it. And so in him that I'm not sure he won't come back.
What am I even doing today? Yeah, you're getting really like— I know. I feel like going into this, we were going to go a lot of different directions, and now you've come back to like— I think people are probably turned off by now.
Oh, dude. Tell us about your depth at safety this year. Yeah. How do you guys feel about third down package? Nobody wants to hear that.
Yes, they're turning back on.
Yeah. A lot of booster part because they got to get their resources paid. Now that's going to get a little bit moved now with revenue sharing and coming from the school, but... These last few years has been, okay, well, the boosters have to create these collectives and have to source the money to pay the players. So if you don't have the money, you don't have the payroll, it's hard to get players.
And if you see, it's not hard. Look at who just won in basketball, the programs that made the Final Four. Look at what, you know, the Final Four college football teams, like they're major programs that have a lot of financial resources. So, yeah, you got to do a lot of that. And then you got to convince the players now.
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