Gary Pinkel Shout-Out

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Then Saban left. It was a risk Bohl understood he was taking from the moment he hired him.

"I knew the potential was there," Bohl said, before kicking himself decades later for including a buyout for taking another college job but not for one in the NFL.

"I was learning too," he said. Thankfully for Bohl, Saban had an eye for talent that went beyond recruiting. One of the last things he said before he left Bohl's office that day was, "You better go look at Gary Pinkel."

"Nick was a young person when he became the head coach at Toledo," Bohl said. "But when he left he just took his strengths and had them grow. Whatever he did at Toledo was easier at Michigan State. Whatever he did at Michigan State was easier at LSU. Whatever he was doing at LSU is easier at Alabama.

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