“I was called into a meeting a couple of weeks ago in (Alabama athletic director) Greg Byrne’s office,” Gold said in an interview with Tide 100.9 radio. “The indication I was given was that the university was ready to make a change. I did offer a compromise. I said, ‘Look, let me do one more year. Let me do one more full season, home and away (games), and then I would quietly walk off into the sunset, and you wouldn’t hear from me again.’Eli stated publicly that he wanted to keep broadcasting for 10 more years so I'm not sure where you saw that he asked for 1 more year as a swan song. His performance had slipped quite a bit and was below the requirements for the job, so it was time for him to go and apparently, he refused to acknowledge that.