I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?'

I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family.

You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football.