On the national media, I guess I'm the only one who remembers 2000

When we hired Saban at $1.2 million, ESPN truly laughed it up. That made him the 4th highest paid coach in cfb at the time, and the ESPN line was that we did this for coach with the same record as the guy we fired. Of course, plenty of locals agreed, but that was the literal scrolling headline on ESPN that day.

So I could care less about what they say now as all that will matter is how we do on the field the next few years. Nothing else matters.