When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANMy wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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.
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