Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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My 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 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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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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.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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