Jimbo Fisher says he’s ‘great’ with Nick Saban: ‘2 competitive guys…We move on’
By Andrew Olson
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Jimbo Fisher was predictably asked about Nick Saban at SEC Media Days. During his televised press conference, Fisher downplayed the coaches’ explosive back-and-forth over NIL.
“Listen, we’re great,” Fisher told reporters. “Two competitive guys who go at it. We all learn from things we do in our business. We’ve got two competitive guys on a topic that is very everywhere, as they say. There’s no rules with this thing. Where it goes, every state has different laws. … I heard a statement he made. The arguments we had in the staff room and on the basketball court and all those things. On the basketball court, we didn’t have them. We were always on the same team. So we usually had them against other people. I have great respect for Nick.
“Unfortunately, our thing went public. Sometimes that happens in this world. Nothing’s private anymore, is it? … We move on from there.”
At a May speaking event, Saban said Texas A&M bought every player on the team in reference to Texas A&M’s top-ranked 2022 recruiting class. The next day, Fisher held a public press conference for the ages, unloading on Saban, calling the Alabama coach a narcissist and hypocrite who needed to be slapped.
Thursday’s press conference will presumably make Paul Finebaum’s book on the feud.
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