Eli Gold isn’t finished with broadcasting yet.
After the news of his retirement from the University of Alabama football radio broadcasts leaked, the iconic broadcaster spoke with AL.com about the decision.
Gold, 70, had served as the Crimson Tide’s voice for 35 years. He returned to partial duty calling home games and the Iron Bowl last season after missing the entire year of 2022 due to disease.
“Well, the university has chosen not to bring me back,” Gold went on to say. “This is absolutely not health-related. I am quite healthy. Everything is fantastic. “I am as healthy as a horse.”
Gold, who also hosts Nick Saban’s weekly “Hey Coach!” radio show, stated that he would announce his next step this week “in what I hope will be a number of jobs.”
“I am not retiring,” Gold stated. “The university has decided, as they say, to go in a different route. And it is entirely their right.
The Brooklyn native, who began working at Alabama in 1988, intends to stay in the Birmingham region as he pursues opportunities for the next stage of his career.
His contract expires in June.
The school stated on Wednesday that Chris Stewart, a part of the broadcast network since 1998 and the voice of Alabama men’s basketball, will take over both of Gold’s positions going forward.
“I was previously told that I was going to do A-Day and they have now reconsidered that,” Gold added, “and they’re just going to make a clean split. But they will honor their deal till the end of June.”
