🏈 "What coach Saban did, it was all him. He made us believe."

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"If you would have said two years ago that we'd be here, I would have called you the biggest liar and just really completely discredited everything you ever said to me," McElroy said. "What coach Saban did, it was all him. He made us believe. He made us believe that it's all about the mindset, and we finished the job tonight. This is all because of him."

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/01/alabama_players_credit_saban_f.html

from this to a NC in a couple of years is pretty freaking cool.

But not right away, and Saban's first year was messy. He later estimated that no fewer than 30 times he had a player suspended during the 2007 season, triggering a late-season slide that included losses to Mississippi State and Louisiana-Monroe.