🏈 An hour with Nick Saban: How Steph Curry, golf and more shape Alabama's success
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Some good stuff here, TP. Thanks for the link!
FOX Sports: I know that every team is different from year to year. How different, if at all, is this group, coming off the national title, compared to other teams you've had that had just won championships?
Saban: The one thing I haven't seen with this group so far is, complacency is usually an issue when you have success. It's human nature when you do well, they think they're entitled. It works in a lot of different ways. I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature. It's not, "I'm gonna win again. I'm gonna be the best again." That's special.
FS: How much does it help you that this group just saw a team win a championship that came through after having an unsettled quarterback situation going into the season, and even into the season?
Saban: I think because we never promote that these things are necessary to be successful, like some people say, "I have to name a starter by, say, August 15." Well, I don't believe in that. I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. And I think our players think that.
I think our players feel like if we do what we're supposed to do, and what we're told to do, and everybody buys into it, we'll have a chance to be successful. And, because it's not a perfect world, everything does not work out perfectly for us, individually or for us as a team.
FOX Sports: I know that every team is different from year to year. How different, if at all, is this group, coming off the national title, compared to other teams you've had that had just won championships?
Saban: The one thing I haven't seen with this group so far is, complacency is usually an issue when you have success. It's human nature when you do well, they think they're entitled. It works in a lot of different ways. I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature. It's not, "I'm gonna win again. I'm gonna be the best again." That's special.
FS: How much does it help you that this group just saw a team win a championship that came through after having an unsettled quarterback situation going into the season, and even into the season?
Saban: I think because we never promote that these things are necessary to be successful, like some people say, "I have to name a starter by, say, August 15." Well, I don't believe in that. I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. And I think our players think that.
I think our players feel like if we do what we're supposed to do, and what we're told to do, and everybody buys into it, we'll have a chance to be successful. And, because it's not a perfect world, everything does not work out perfectly for us, individually or for us as a team.
Indeed.
Do you find yourself hearing Saban's voice in your head as you read his quotes in an article like this, or is it just me? Lol
Along with being able to see his hand/arm motion
Exactly.
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