Next level takes a new focus (Press
Jags needs attitude adjustment: As a long-time coach of little league through the years, I learned one thing from my father, and this is some advice from the South Alabama program, even though you think you're more advanced because you're a college coach.
Number one: If you're going to be a champion, and that's what you want to be, you have to go into every game knowing you're going to win that game. Knowing that you've got the plan, the drive and know exactly what you want to do and know that you have the confidence to do it. You come expecting to win, and not only to win, but to show off a little bit and blow them out. That's what a champion is. He cannot be shaken. Even in times of adversity, he knows he's got the skill, the know-how and the drive to overcome it and become winners. So far our basketball team has beaten Detroit, William Carey, Spring Hill College, Houston Baptist and Wright State, and we have lost to any kind of decent type of team we have played. I think that attitude that I've previously talked about is what's holding South Alabama back.
The football team is starting to grasp it. The baseball team, I think they just won on the talent of pitching last year, but I never went into a game, no matter who they played, honestly believing they were going to win it. That's what needs to change at South Alabama. Now, when I watched the girls softball team last year I had every bit of confidence that no matter who in the country they played, they were going to win it. They are champions. So take note. If you're not working them hard, and they're not paying the price, and they're not dedicated enough that they prepare themselves physically and mentally to know they're going to win this game, then they need to step aside and let somebody else at South Alabama do it.
Far-away wish: It's really hard to be a South Alabama fan. I've been one for years and years, and I look at the basketball schedule and all the decent games are for some other city, another team's fans to enjoy. I look at the baseball schedule. Yep, same thing. All the big time games are for some other city and other fans to enjoy.
For Saban, money rules: I just wanted to comment on this Nick Saban thing. It just reinforces my idea of Nick Saban. The only reason he's staying at Alabama is the money. If he got paid more from Texas or someone else, he'd be gone. And y'all don't need to be thinking he's going to be here for a long time, cause if he gets a mind to, he'll go somewhere else. It's why Bear Bryant was such a good man, and why I think he was our greatest coach, is because he didn't do it for the money, he did it for his alma matter. Everybody's happy with this now, dancing in the street, go Nick Saban and all that, but if this man starts losing ball games it won't be fun.
Heads up: Major lawsuits against the NFL for concussions, and college football is looking to prepare its defense for lawsuits because of concussions. Major league baseball players have now died because of their concussions. How much longer will we allow our children to play soccer, a sport where the rules say don't use your hands. A sport where you can't use your hands, but you may strike the ball with your head, the only sport on the planet where it's OK to strike something with an unprotected head. What a sport. No wonder it's a third-world sport. Let's encourage our children to hit their heads against things. Let's go play soccer.
Focus: I hope now that all the cow college fans for Auburn will just shut their mouths and be happy that they're going to play in the championship game. I have a friend who lives in Auburn, and he worries about Alabama all the time, but he's an Auburn fan. He doesn't even know the players on Auburn's team. He just worries about Alabama. Worry about your own school. Be happy. You won, by the grace of God you won.
Home away from home: That Winston kid isn't bringing the Heisman back home. He was born and raised in Alabama, but he's bringing that trophy he won back to Florida State. I don't know where he got his ideas about that.
It's Italian: Well, A.J. McCarron may have won a major award, but it is no leg lamp.
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