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00:03 I think he's a terrific football coach, but
00:05 I don't think he's ever lived an experience quite like this.
00:09 And it'll be very interesting to see how he enjoys coaching at Alabama,
00:14 where everything is dissected.
00:16 Every last move you make, who you bring in, who you don't recruit,
00:21 who you do recruit, how you play them.
00:24 It's a different level, not in terms of the competition, but
00:29 in terms of the expectation and the attention.
00:32 He started out, he was a small college guy,
00:36 NAIA, University of Sioux Falls, and he was phenomenal there.
00:41 And then he went into relatively low profile FBS circumstances,
00:48 where he was an offensive coordinator and that sort of thing.
00:51 An offensive coach or coordinator for a series of programs.
00:55 I mean, his move to the big time was at Indiana,
00:57 which if he were the IU basketball coach, boy, the spotlight's on.
01:01 But as a football coach, they're just hoping you win more games than you lose.
01:05 So he's never really had this level of scrutiny.
01:09 And the reality is that between Bear Bryant and Nick Saban,
01:15 and with the very short rise to success of Gene Stallings,
01:20 there was a lot of disaster in Alabama.
01:24 I mean, this is not a no brainer job.
01:26 It is very easy to mess it up.
01:29 They had, I believe, six coaches, five coaches in between the Bear and Nick.
01:36 And all of them either struggled or
01:39 failed with the exception of Stallings, who won the 1992 National Championship.
01:44 But wasn't really desiring to stay there long,
01:47 because again, that spotlight is really hot.
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