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Alabama Football: Gandalf the Wizard, seven seconds and the Saban Process

No one should go through life without reading Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy or at least The Hobbit. If reading books is not your thing, at least watch the movies. Alabama football fans, we promise you will not be disappointed.

One of Tolkien’s main characters is a good wizard named Gandalf. Nick Saban may be a wizard but we are not suggesting he is Gandalf. But Nick knows a Gandalf, a real life friend who is also something of a wizard. The friend is Lionel Rosen, Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University.