Jimbo Fisher is ready for the spat between him and Alabama’s Nick Saban to be over. 

“We’re talented and have established that we can start stacking a huge number of the right guys in our program,” the Texas A&M coach told ESPN on Friday. “We’ve still got great challenges this year. We gotta go prove it. Hey, it’s time to shut up and play, just go play. Don’t worry about what people say. Don’t worry about what happened this summer between me and Nick.

“We feel really good about where we’re going.”

In May, Saban said that Fisher “bought every player” on the Aggies’ team. That resulted in Fisher saying the comments were “despicable,” Saban is a “narcissist” and that “he knows things” about Saban and the Crimson Tide football program.

The war of words was enough for SEC commissioner Greg Sankey to reprimand both coaches, and Saban apologized for singling out Fisher. 

“What people don’t realize is that it’s not like we ever talked a lot,” Fisher told ESPN in the sit-down interview on Friday. “Since I’ve been here, we’ve probably talked on the phone five different times. He might call me about something or need a favor, which is still fine. I don’t have a problem with that, and I would still help if that was the case.”

Texas A&M, ranked No. 6 in the AP preseason poll, went 8-4 a season ago, but Fisher became the first of Saban’s former assistant coaches to beat him when the Aggies upset the Crimson Tide, 41-38.

Fisher on Friday added that he’s no longer mad about the comments made by Saban and said he never previously had a problem with the Alabama coach, whom he was an offensive coordinator for from 2000-04 when Saban was the head coach at LSU. Though he did say what bothered him was the use of the word bought when it came to his players.

Still, it doesn’t sound like the two will be exchanging Christmas cards anytime soon, or least phone calls.

“Nick and I ain’t got time to call each other,” Fisher said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with like or dislike. I mean, what am I going to say if I call him — ‘Our recruiting is going well. How is yours going?’ Hell, we’re recruiting the same damn guys.”

“All of a sudden it’s bad because we got a No. 1 class after going 8-4? Look around. When I was at LSU in 2001 [with Saban], we got the No. 1 class and were 8-4 the year before. It’s happened at other places. Alabama had a great class after they went 7-6 in Nick’s first year. Why is that any different than us? So when somebody fires at you and it’s true, it’s one thing. If it ain’t true, it’s different. If I know I’m right — and I learned this from my mother and my father — then stand your ground.”

“That’s what is wrong with the world today. We compromise too much.”

The two coaches did speak briefly at the SEC spring meetings, Fisher said, but haven’t talked since.

As whether whatever relationship the two have could survive in the wake of it all?

“I don’t know,” Fisher told ESPN. “We’ll see. He said his thing, and I said, ‘OK,’ and we’re past that and that’s the last time we talked [at the meetings]. I don’t ever say never to nothing in this business. You never know about relationships, but we’re also never around each other except in a business setting.”

Texas A&M plays at Alabama on Oct. 8.