| MBB/WBB This quote by Oats makes me realize how much he's changed the culture here

[Bammerboy321]

I remember talking to some friends when Avery and Grant were coaches that our players were not in basketball shape. If you watched how many games Alabama let slip away in the last five-seven minutes, you could definitely tell conditioning was not great. Also a big reason you saw Alabama collapse in February and March and live in the NIT.

Oats immediately changed the way we practiced and put a huge emphasis on the S&C program. It's wild you see him say it was a lighter practice compared to what they did at Buffalo.

 

[sean]

Coach Bryant used to beat the shit out of his players (not personally) so they'd be tough enough and have the stamina to stay in the game for all 60 minutes and not be winded halfway through the 3rd quarter.

And Coach Saban had the 4th quarter program.

Conditioning goes a VERY long way in terms of being able to sustain the same level of play from the opening kickoff/tip-off to the final whistle/buzzer.

 

[OldPlayer]

Coach Bryant used to beat the shit out of his players (not personally) so they'd be tough enough and have the stamina to stay in the game for all 60 minutes and not be winded halfway through the 3rd quarter.

And Coach Saban had the 4th quarter program.

Conditioning goes a VERY long way in terms of being able to sustain the same level of play from the opening kickoff/tip-off to the final whistle/buzzer.

It helped that Coach Bryant didn’t have an indoor practice facility to retreat to. I painfully remember passing the bank at the corner of 10th Street (now Bryant Drive) and Hackberry that had a time and temperature sign. If it was 95 degrees, we knew that the temperature on the astroturf field (where 98% of practice was) would be 20 degrees hotter.

 

[64Tide]

Players must get acclimated to adversity in practice in order to overcome adversity in a game. College football was a coaches game now you have to be a psychologist/phychiatrist.