Roger Hoover describes having Eli Gold and a healthy broadcast booth back in 2023

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00:00 big celebrations as Eli Gold was welcome back into the broadcast booth.

00:04 He was always welcome, but he really was healthy enough to return to his

00:09 traditional role as the play by play guy.

00:12 And I just wanna get your perspective and opinion.

00:14 Look, we saw a huge game day piece on Eli Gold and really everybody who knows

00:19 Alabama football knows Eli Gold and really has a memory in their brain of what he

00:23 means to them.

00:24 Anytime I think Eli Gold, I think the Rogers in this grand old stadium,

00:29 from the 2009 National Championship game.

00:32 I just wanna open the floor.

00:34 How's Eli Gold?

00:35 How's it been working with him again?

00:37 And really just what it means to have him back in the broadcast booth with you guys.

00:41 >> It's been outstanding.

00:42 Eli's done really well through the first two games.

00:45 Did very well too when we did some mock broadcast of the scrimmages earlier in

00:49 August as well as we kind of welcomed in not only Eli back to the broadcast booth

00:53 after missing a year due to health challenges.

00:55 But also privileged to welcome Tyler Watson as our new color analyst.

00:59 He has done an amazing job for us for years and years and

01:02 years on pre and post game shows on the Crimson Tide Sports Network.

01:05 He and Chris Stewart used to team up for some of the pay-per-view games or

01:09 some of the CSS playback games that they used to do before the SEC network came

01:13 into existence in 2014.

01:15 So he's fitting well.

01:16 We've had Christian Miller on the sidelines.

01:18 Once again, we'd certainly love that.

01:19 And then Chris as well, getting to call the road games while Eli calls the home

01:23 games and we've got the best of everything we really feel like this year.

01:26 And we've certainly missed Eli over the past year.

01:29 We missed Chris a few years ago when he went through some of his health challenges.

01:32 So to have everybody healthy, working for

01:35 the Crimson Tide Sports Network is really the biggest plus.

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