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[Applause] in a season of chaos constant Excellence Bama bludgeons the Buckeyes and Sabin steps past Paul Bryant with his seventh National [Applause] Championship the all-time leader now in college football national championships he’ll saor for about an hour and then think about 2021 you going to be a football player

When you grow up today is the best day of your life believe it give me 18 of daylight that’s all greatest leader I’ve ever known what a ride it’s been I don’t care what the situation in the game is there is no scoreboard so this room is our

Recruiting room and it is used uh exclusively for that you really need to come back when we’re in the middle of a Saturday night recruiting party uh players do are not here these are the families the parents the grandparents of our recruits we have a piano we’ve got the

Pool table and you may not be able to see it from here but the highlight of the evening is our karaoke machine and how is he oh he’s terrible but he can Dance and he loves music of course you if you’ve ridden in the car with him he blasts his music like a teenager I think it’s a something called Wagon Wheel headed down south to the Carol snapshots can make a journey appear like it was all just simple Fun but don’t be fooled by the final shine diamonds begin as coal formed and found and Polished over time so rock me mama like a wagon wheel Rock Me Mama any he may not know but um I had seen him from afar as a pop Winer cheerleader

And of course he was pop porner quarterback and I was selected by my little school to participate in science camp uh how he ended up there I don’t know but I I still haven’t figured out there he was the cute quarterback in science camp I think we sat on the bus together

To the dairy farm yeah we did so that ended up officially being the first date dairy farm know we were in a very growing up in a very isolated kind of coal mining community Community my dad was a coal miner and um Nick and I are both first generation

College first in our families to go to college I was around bignick and I knew him as a business leader as owning the gas station in the community and the little Dairy Queen across the street and we knew him to be very demanding and a perfectionist but always kind-hearted

Always somebody that if you had trouble in the community you could go to Mr Nick and and he would he could solve problems for you look my my dad had such an impact uh on Me growing up the importance of doing things the right way doing your best

Work ethic I mean so many things that I go back to working at my dad’s service station I think also that my dad was a coach and that’s where he was toughest on all of of us he expected and demanded the best so the elements of all the

Things that I believe in as a coach were instilled in me when I was 10 years old playing popcorner or football damn man you guys got no point and sometimes it seemed like nothing was ever good enough 8 seconds to go in the game we got a

Call timeout cuz we got 12 guys on the F the first coach to change Nick sabin’s life was his father the next was his head football coach at Kent State I never grew up wanting to be a coach coach James Don James who was my college coach calls me in his office

Says I want you to be a graduate assistant and coach and I said coach why would I do that I don’t want to go to graduate school you know I was tired of being poor we were you know and wanted to get a job and do something Nick’s

Father had the gas station and and Nick always worked in the gas station so that was something that that he considered was um having a car dealership and and something that paralleled the gas station so he said but you know Miss Terry’s got another year of school you

Promised your parents when they allowed you to get married that you’d both finish college so you know he kind of put me on the spot and and I agreed to do it after the first game of that season I realized how much I like being a coach

That it was a lot like playing I like the competition I like the relationships and involvement with the players so called my dad I said you know this is really what I want to do and he was excited and happy that cuz I was you know like a lot of people when they’re

Young you’re not for sure what you want to do you know where am I going to fit into this world and you know I called my dad and I told him and it’s the last conversation I had with my dad before he passed away obviously we were shocked because he was

Young and we thought he was fit he was jogging when he died I think his first concern was his mother who was home by herself he was U self-employed with a service station a small restaurant that was going to be a difficult thing for my

Mom to be able to manage on her own um I had worked there for years I could have done it and no one would really allow me to do it his mother and the women in the family said no you know we’re so proud of what you’re doing we we want you to

Continue on to have great parents and great family support I mean this is this is a tremendous example let’s go good warm up now let’s go come on this career as a coach would have never occurred had the family not been so supportive of allowing me to do what

They felt I wanted to do rather than what they needed for me to do at the time standing on the shoulders of his home team in the hills of West Virginia Nick Sabin returned to the Kent State coaching staff taking one more small step toward the football life he nearly never

Had during that year I think he he learned to love it and also the opportunities just kept coming you know do you want to be a ga and then you can help the coordinator and then you can be the coordinator and then you can be the assistant head coach

And there was never a time where it just didn’t roll us into that next opportunity so I often wonder if I hadn’t had that one more year of college um if he would exclusively be in the car business are you still playing like some three

Four stuff but mostly out of lot of sink but different guys dropping and I’m going back to this all three four Nick Sabin loves talking ball especially with an old pal like Bill bich the pair met in Annapolis where Sabin and bellich che’s father Steve worked on the Navy football

Staff by then bill was an NFL assistant already making a name for himself we got enough guys out there yeah Bill used to come home in the summertime visit his parents and same age same young guys trying to come up in the business we just sort of naturally became

Friends Bill probably got my job for me at the Houston Oilers which was my first job in the NFL and then I went to Toledo as the head coach I’m proud as hell of them uh they should be proud of themselves they’ve accomplished was there for one

Year Bill gets the Cleveland Browns head coaching job and he started calling me about coming to Cleveland to be the defensive coordinator for us um it was a difficult decision as much as we loved Bill and you know the lure of the NFL the timing of leaving Nick’s first head coaching job and

Really feeling bad about letting people down there in Toledo it was tough and it just happened to be you know sometimes the Stations of life that you’re in you know my kids were little so one of the most challenging times for Miss Terry with the kids if anyone else had called there

Would not have been a consideration but because it was Bill made a lot of difference Nick was the first coach I hired and the best coach I hired Nick was really my number one partner there U and I relied on him so heavily on every level I mean if we don’t play

Our ass off they’ll beat us yeah I was the head coach at at Cleveland but whatever success we had we wouldn’t have achieved without him all right with all the one back we’re getting pepper almost this is our 47th year and I still would say that stint

With with Bill was the toughest on us but you know I think that’s what makes you a better person when you push yourself to beyond what you think is your limit and then from then on everything is just relative to that it’s a piece of cake 10 seconds to play in this football

Game 1994 we had a really really good team had a really good defensive team and had gotten offensively where we very competitive and just did a really great job of rebuilding a program Aman straight back in the pocket looks in zone to NOA check but he’s not in he’s

Down at the one yd line the have beaten the Cowboys it was one of the best experiences of my coaching career it’s one of the most difficult but I learned a tremendous amount and it’s really helped me probably more as much as any thing uh in my career for the Sabin relationships are

The road map of life that’s what steered them to Cleveland and then back to Michigan State where Nick had once been an assistant and where in 1994 he was offered the head coaching job it happened in the beginning of December when we had three or four games

Left to play and the playoffs and I told the people at Michigan State I wanted to stay there and finish the year with this team I wasn’t going to walk out if they hired me they were going to have to hire me with that understanding D you got to

Work through them and get and they did you know in the pros if players since you got one foot out the door they don’t perform but I don’t think there was ever any danger of that with Nick he’s got one speed he’s going to demand your best

Whether he’s there for a day a season half seon or a career the party is started as the Browns have won it 20 to 13 when you went to Michigan State I wish the transitions could be as smooth as that one was and and I certainly

Appreciate you know the job you did to finish the year in ’94 I really wanted to do it because I felt it it was what I owed the players if it wasn’t for the players I would have never got the opportunity coming up it’s unfair to your family in a lot of

Ways moments when when things aren’t going so well and everybody could suffer for It in the long history of Michigan State football no head coach has ever beaten the Michigan Wolverines in his very first try while that streak has now come doing that Nick congratulations well we’re very pleased for all the people that associate with Michigan State but Nick Sabin took over at Michigan State in

1995 before long the winds got bigger and the scrutiny on him more intense after we went to Michigan State Nicholas he was now playing Junior High basketball right so I got to go to few games but I get to go to this game and he makes a breakaway layup and a guy

Fouls him and knocks him up into the wall and he gets up and says something and they got technical foul mhm so you know I’m going to sit him down and do the best version of how you got to keep your cool how you got to keep your

Temper and he just sat there and looked at me and listened and listened and listened and then he says by the way Dad how many headsets did you break this [Laughter] year which I couldn’t I couldn’t defend that one there it is I’ve gotten a little better at that I think I only

Broke one this year damn it I I’ve always loved what I do I I’ve always my guilt comes from how it affects other people it it’s an all or nothing profession if you’re a competitor during football season you can’t go out to eat you don’t see a

Movie you don’t do anything right it’s not very familyfriendly as the season is in the thick of the season with the stress and the tension there will be little things that will happen in the family that I’ll want to share with him but I’ll make the Judgment call that it’s not appropriate

To talk to him about it right now it’s not worth bringing it up it’s really trite compared to what else is happening in our lives but then when things settle down he might get his feelings hurt and say why didn’t you tell me that why

Didn’t you share that with me but at the time it just wasn’t the right thing to do he did miss out out on a lot of Life events of his kids growing up but especially when we were young that really helped us be closer me and my mom

My brother like when I was in high school we had senior night and I was a cheerleader and my dad was traveling I think he was recruiting and so it was obviously really disappointing that he couldn’t be there to walk me out onto the field for the announcement of the

Senior cheerleaders my brother actually filled in for my dad so little moments like that it really means a lot the hardest thing that I’ve ever had to do professionally uh was to get in front of my team today at Michigan State uh and tell them that

I was going to no longer be their coach After Five Seasons at Michigan State the Sabin accepted LSU’s offer for Nick to become the Tigers head coach probably at LSU when he was starting to have more success There people were more like fans of him more than they were in the very beginning being in in a kind of family like that you’re thrown into a limelight whether you like it or not I think it was our first year at LSU and we lost to UAB

Like the last second field goal time runs out and the Blazers have pulled off a big upset here tonight and I remember they put for sale signs in our yard through some eggs and things like that uh I just remember thinking gosh that’s kind of crazy just over a football game but

Growing older I’ve actually just learned how to deal with it you have to block out the noise people like that they have their own things going on their lives you can all you can do is just pray for them and just blow it off I’ve grown up with football and I

Love the sport but I take it with a grain of salt if you lose one game it’s not the end of the world just enjoy the game enjoy the little things enjoy beating you know Duke 42 to3 it’s a good thing in his second season Sabin LED LSU

To its first outright SEC title since 1986 2 years later he took the Tigers to a higher level head coach Nick Sav and the number two BCS ranked LSU Tigers I said Dad this is your first First National Championship out of college we were nervous and so that night i’ give him a

Lucky penny I said dad this could make it or break it so if it works we’ll make it a tradition and if not we’ll just forget it ever happened cuz we’re very superstitious intercepted and LSU has scored on the Marcus Spears interception ever since then he’s like okay we got to keep this

Going so it has not stopped since then lucky pennies and now titles both family traditions began in Baton Rouge but no prize could distract the Sabin from the next Challenge if we we could have stayed and done exactly what we did here and then he went back in and but at the time he’s still young and ambitious and we had another opportunity Wayne heising who’s a wonderful man was a wonderful owner tempted us with some wonderful

Things mostly just his control of the organization and all of that but um that’s how that story ended we ended up in Miami follow the dolphins all season long on NFL Network there’s nobody I respect more in football than than Nick Sabin and I don’t think there’s anybody that’s that’s a better Coach than Nick Sabin um because Nick can he does everything well when we want to go fast these guys ain’t even getting led up to be able to

To do it twice in terms of national championships but he had great success in Michigan State as well and would have had a lot of success in Miami had he stayed there I have no doubt about that well we talked to sa and he said Bill

Did say I wish you weren’t coming into the AFC East life gets tougher when he’s there that’s for sure twice a year it was interesting when coach s came in cuz he you know he kind of brought that’s what I’m talking about good job a little bit of a college mentality little more

Rah a lot more yelling we got Auburn LSU in Florida represent represent whoa what’s all this screaming and Coach is always frowning so don’t come out here with the poor Mees all right poor me my ass hurts poor me my ham hurts poor me this when you hit the field and you walk

Across the line that’s all over Nick Sabin had a vision for what every player could be no matter what or where the player had been before I had been a 4-3 guy for I guess 7 years at that point when he came in had been in the Pro Bowl several times

In a row and I’m like I don’t want to change from a 43d end to a stand up 34 backer no I remember when you went there and I talked to Jason he’s like I don’t know about this 34 like 34 you’re going to be this is the best defense for you

He’s like you can do so much more on the football field than what you do Nick’s a genius like just trust him and go with it and then I remember I was taking that trip to the Keys and Coach sa won the top we end up getting on the phone he

Was like think some of the names you know from the Kevin greens to the Lawrence Taylor Greg Lloyds I mean all the guys that have stood up in this 34 system and an hour later by the time we got done I was ready to turn the boat

Turn turn a boat around come back and start practicing this is like in March or April he sold me on it and he expanded my horizons of learning the game football Jason Taylor that is a Pro Bowl play right there uh it was definitely life and

Career changing for me in a lot of ways you have to get comfortable having uncomfortable conversations that’s another great thing I learned from coach s perhaps the most challenging conversations of Nick sabin’s time in Miami began in December 2006 when the University of Alabama fired its head

Football coach and began to pursue Sabin it’s flattering that somebody would consider you for anything but it’s also disappointing that when you’re uh trying your very best to do the best you can for your team uh that it becomes a distraction or anybody would even ask about it it’s certainly not a

Distraction to me there was a lot of push back in the beginning I don’t think he wanted to go I’ve stated what my intentions are and they really haven’t changed so I don’t I don’t know what the issue is and I don’t know why people keep asking about it what they talk

About over there is their business but what’s happen in here is my business and our business and that’s what we’re focused on and that’s what I’m committed to doing I don’t know how else I can say it guys I’ve said it three different occasions and I don’t know how else I

Can say it and I don’t know why you keep asking the famous um television Mark of him is on TV saying I’m I’m not going to be the Alabama coach what what what what I shouldn’t even have to comment on this I think I’ve said this over and over and over

Again he that’s what he has to say he’s got 65 guys sitting in in the meeting room he’s trying to lead for the next month why did you ultimately choose to leave Miami and come here well I think we had a chance to fix the quarterback situation you know the year before Drew

Brees was a free agent we were in the mix to get him and I think when that didn’t work out I was like you know we’ve worked our tail off and because of this one position that we have not been able to Sol I just felt like I couldn’t control my own destiny

I was not particularly happy there you know the head coach’s wife and family in the NFL Your Role is a lot different than it is in college helping with recruiting and alumni and helping with donors and raising money for this and that and Community involvement and just

A lot more involvement in college you know having the opportunity to come back to Alabama which was someplace you could win in college football which maybe that opportunity doesn’t come um I I just said you know maybe maybe it might be a a better path and it certainly has worked out

Well well uh as you know Nick Sav has decided not to return to the Dolphins um you know it’s uh it is what it is um I uh met with Nick at his home this morning with his wife Terry and Nick you know it’s there’s a lot of

Reasons why decisions get made in life but the but the net is that uh he’s not coming back he’d be leaving this afternoon going to Alabama we loved Wayne and um he he was in our living room when we made the decision we we’re all crying we were all

Crying when the decision was made are you upset about the way Nick sa handled this over the last couple weeks with you well I you know no the answer is no I’m not upset because it’s more involved in what you think Joe and and and I’ve been

Through this with Nick for quite some time now and I I I feel the pain and so forth and so on of Nick and Terry and and it it’s not a very simple thing and before I introduce the coach I would like to take just a moment and introduce

His family and certainly in introducing Terry to say to you how important she was in the decision that was made by the coach she loves college football and long to be back in it so does coach sabbin but Terry Sabin was the one that uh made me feel good when I called her

Terry would you please stand and by the way on the subject of money I wasn’t going to bring this up but seeing as you did Nick never talked to me about money he never talked to me about an extension he never asked me for anything because I honestly believe

This was not about money do you feel like you disrespected the Dolphins organization or their fans and is there anything you’d like to say to them well I I think that the two years I was in Miami that I affected the team in a positive way hey he maybe can crack a

Smile now but hey after 24 hours he’s going to get on her ass again promise you that and it was premature to not stay there all right but if I knew and Wayne and I talked about this that my heart was to go back to college I don’t

Think it would have been fair to the organization if I stayed more power to him you know if you don’t if you don’t want to you don’t like your job or you want to make a change or whatever this is America man we’re playing sports it’s professional sports like you know it’s

Not we’re not it’s not rocket science we’re not supplying fresh water to somewhere else across the world like this is we’re playing sports if you want to make a change make a change I’ll forever love Nick sa for what he did for me and really for the

Team as a whole in Miami I know people give him a hard time about it but he didn’t do anything but make a decision was best for he and his family and go to Alabama and change a bunch of kids’ lives and a program’s life and he changed a lot of lives out

Here some will say for the worst and others that can step back a little bit and be truthful can say for the better to me he’s he’s one of God’s gifts of football well certainly one of the best days in my coaching career was the day

You took the Alabama Job got out of Miami I I don’t believe that I do Making the players feel comfortable getting them to focus on um the things that are process oriented rather than the results you know we’re going to play him a little bit it’s really another step in his process of getting you’ve heard me say this a 100 times before outcomes are a distraction focusing on

The process of what you have to do to get the outcome is the most important thing you need to do Nick Sav says it a lot because he lived it a lot it’s all part of the process one of Ni sa’s favorite phrases it’s less about the Victory lap

Than the extra laps that produced the victory you were dating in high school and when he was quarterback the whole County thought they were wonderful and they were winning all their games and I might come to the house afterwards and actually sit down at the table when his father would would start

Evaluating um I might Slither out of the room because it did come across as um you we could be better you could have been better you know I think that was the beginning though of learning that it wasn’t just about winning or losing the game that there there was a a process

There was a value placed on how you played the game and the most difficult thing that I have to deal with is to get people after we win to have the same kind of commitment to improving and changing look guys win was a win good

Plays in the game I but we made a lot of bad plays that’s that I hate to being negative guys but that’s as bad as we’ve ever played on special teams I this field goal everybody remembers the Blu grass Miracle 75 yard tipped hell Mar

Pass that we win the game I don’t even remember the score oh my goodness touchdown LSU but they don’t remember that the next week was the worst beating we ever had and all the time that I was at LSU and I contribute the fact that we played poorly against Kentucky we won

The game on a lucky play and no one was really ready to acknowledge the fact that we didn’t really play that well ready coaches and players alike they were all relieved we won the game why are you getting Hest coach why do we need to work hard why do we need to

Practice more well because we’re not really heading in the right direction and we need to change no M was willing to change 474 should have block all of sabin’s players have heard about the process but as much as anyone quarterback Tua tongoa lived it during his freshman season when he was the

Backup to Jaylen Herz you know all season long we wanted to get Tua as much experience as he could not because we wanted him to beat out Jaylen but we really wanted him to be in a position to be able to go win a game if jayen never got injured or even

Wasn’t playing well I mean we were ahead of Tennessee and we put him in the game in the first series he was in there he threw a pick six the linebacker going the other way he’s going to score we left him in the game you know you got to learn how to

Play you know go play so I knew going into the game against against Georgia this was one of the best front sevens we played against it’s going to be really hard to run the ball against these guys we’re going to have to make plays in a passing game and if we struggle throwing

The ball down and sa from The Blind Side we may have to make this change well we’re behind 13 nothing in halftime and I just said we’ve got great skilled guys on offense and we’re not utilizing them at all if we’re going to have a chance to win

This game we need to give this guy a chance thr again Eno where does that come from you’re in high school a year ago you could have played a meaningful snap all year season you’re mopping up all year you come in down 13 hostile crowd it wasn’t like an

Emotional in the- moment decision it was calculated based on a progression through the season and an improvement of of a young player knowing his skill set versus knowing what we needed to do to win the game till the momentum shift to his bra and energy to this offense still

A remarkable move by head coach it wasn’t working all right so we needed something to change that we’re going to overtime here’s Tua stepping back loads up looks long throws exd Alabama and the clips of time has once again ascended to the top of the college football Mountain their fifth

National Championship in nine years it might have been sabin’s greatest coaching job a testament to the power of focusing on small steps rather than distant goals and a demonstration that the process is really about people Nick s knows jayen Herz better than anybody he knows how jaylen’s going

To react he knows that jaylen’s a team guy he knows that Tua understands that it’s jaylen’s team right now he’s coming in to try to help out he knows all those personalities and how they mesh cuz he’s got his thumb on everything the proof was in the next

Season’s SEC title game when Tonga baoa was injured the quarterback he’ once replaced was ready willing and able to step in quarterback draw jayen her are you kidding me last year it was jayen hugging Tua this year it’s Tua hugging jayen well we’ve always had a Lou of

Faith in jayen and you know I told him when we put him in when Tua got hurt it’s your time and he certainly took advantage of it did a fantastic job I’m so proud of this guy for what he’s done this year I can’t even tell you coming

Up maintaining it once you get it to that level is so much more difficult you know so you have to have a different mindset is remember why we’re Here we were planning to get in a state championship when I was a sophomore and I called the plays as a quarterback we got behind in the game 18 and nothing we came back made it 1812 we’re on two minute at the end of the game so fourth

And 12th we on about the 20 ydd line going in to score my high school coach he calls the last time out so I run over to the sidelines he called me young Nicki all the time he said young Nicki what do you think I think I think you

Should call this play is what I think and he said look you got a left halfback that’s the fastest guy in the state you got a three-time All State guy playing split in just call a play that one of those two guys get the ball so I

Called 26 Crossfire pass threw it to left halfback faked to him threw a post corner of the X 25 y touchdown and we won the game 198 but after the game he told me this he says it really doesn’t make any difference what plays you call sometimes it’s what players you have doing

It Nick Sabin has consistently identified and developed football’s best players he’s the first college head coach to produce a first round NFL draft choice at every offensive and defensive position Jaylen wad wide receiver Alabama Sabin also holds the record for the most total first rounders produced by a college head

Coach in 2021 alone the Crimson Tide had six of the NFL’s 32 first round picks Alex Leatherwood Alabama it’s no wonder Sabin has won seven national titles the most by any coach in history talk for a moment about what it would mean to your father right now to know that his young son has won national championships well I I think my father would be proud of the players that’s

What I think and you know Nick’s father was kind of bigger than life and so many times we’d say wish your dad were here to see this because I feel like he had something to do with that and and we always end it by saying he can he can

See it big Nick’s Legacy lives on through Nick Sabin football teams but also at the Birmingham car dealership that Nicholas helps operate turns out the Sabin Football Life LED them back to the original family business thanks in part to a philosophy born at the service station the biggest thing with the

Process that he taught me from an early age on is you know not not looking at the score scoreboard not being result oriented I mean sometimes all people do is look at the scoreboard but yet it’s how you play the game how you compete in the game how smart you play how you

Execute uh that is going to make the difference we’ve tried to implement the process at our dealership in the same light you know it’s not about selling a 100 new cars in a month winning best of the best or any of those accolades you can win it’s about making this one customer happy

And if you can make this one customer happy today then go on to the next one you’ll reach your goals it’s not okay to go out there and not do your job well I don’t care what the situation in the game is there is no scoreboard listen

I’m a dork I I go to the gym a YouTube Saving speeches so we’re we’re going to try to win the game and we’re going to play the best players that we can play to win the game and we’re not assuming that it’s going to be an easy game I and

We’re not assuming that we’ll have opportunity just to play anybody that wants to play to expedite anything except winning the game so we’re going to play everybody who can expedite winning the game that’s what that’s what we’re going to do so I don’t think anybody should expect us to do anything

Else man I love it and you always pick up something do it and practice it until you can’t get it can’t get it wrong not until you get it right get wrong people sit at the light probably like what’s he listening to and I’m thinking I’m listening to some Kevin Hart or whatever

It’s Nick Sabin you guys are getting me fired up you better be careful on this one you might want to just pass that thing on down the road you can tell over the years he’s gotten a little bit less and less uh intense um in the

Media I that wasn’t right cuz he he still is very intense I should say you know all that stuff you write about how good we are and all that stuff they hear on ESPN it’s like poison poison you know what I mean it’s like taking poison like rat poison all right

So I’m I’m asking them are you that that guy you see on that’s fiery on TV that’s not the guy that calls me every night um if I don’t get him I get the same message every time Nick dad just calling love you bud that’s it calls me every

Night well I’ve always had to take the theory with your children children that I’m not always going to be there so it’s always been a challenge to me that when I’m there it’s got to be special it’s got to be good it’s got to be and we really do try to make things

Like Kristen and I watch the OC every Thursday I get home I try to get home by 8:00 so that we can watch from 8 to 9 cuz that’s a favorite show of hers and that really during football season that hour is almost the only only thing that

We do together unless she rides home with me after the games so um for all the things that I missed which are more than I’m proud to say you know to be there to see how happy you know Kristen and Adam were it’s about as special as it gets and U

I’ll never forget that I just feel really fortunate that I was able to do that with him given what he does and how absent he is sometimes that wedding that’s my moment and no one else has that so in a marriage you can’t really keep the score at the end of every year

So how do you tell whether you’ve been successful in your marriage for instance I don’t think it’s any different I mean if you walk into our home those rewards were not the important thing those trophies but but it was the process itself the struggles of getting there that are are best

Memories and I I think the marriage is the same way what’s up M how you doing but I tell you what to have a understanding and supporting wife which Miss Terry has always been that’s really really important cuz if you work like this and you come home and you’re

Getting dogged every day because you’re not doing this or that you know that makes it almost intolerable cuz you feel guilty to start with all right so now you’re getting it shoveled on and that is really tough brought my wife this year good I was in the dogghouse last

Year I spend quite a bit of time there Myself from Almost Heaven West Virginia to Sweet Home Alabama the places and victory songs have changed but through every note the Sabin have stayed in syn coming home from every away game of course I travel with Nick and when we come home to the airport he and I are in

The car and um we blast Rolling Stones Give Me Shelter win or lose oh only win only win no things are very quiet if we Lose sh [Applause] sh I don’t know how people see him now it’s not his personality to care um I probably care you know for him but um I think he’s kind of proven Himself Sh Oh