beating Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the same season.
In the last decade Alabama, our most hated rival has:
Saban likes to remind his coaches, "If you ain't coaching it, then you're letting it happen."
"But what separates Coach Saban is his ability to bring out the best in every one of his players."
"Just because we change people, we don't change philosophy," said Saban, "We don't change what we do, how we want to do it or why it's important to do it a certain way."
"The people that we hire don't come in and reinvent the wheel. They implement the philosophy that we have. Now, they have input and we make changes. We change all the time. I'm always looking for a better way. And when you get new people, you get new ideas, and that's a good thing. But the basic core of what we do, we don't change. You define the expectation for everybody, and this is [Bill] Belichick through and through and where I learned it, because then it's easy for people who understand what the expectation is to be accountable to it."
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...an-alabama-crimson-tide-future-coaching-plans
In the last decade Alabama, our most hated rival has:
- Five national championships in nine years
- .899 winning percentage
- Lost just one game to a team ranked outside the top 15 in the AP poll in the past 10 years, that loss coming to Spurrier's No. 19 South Carolina Gamecocks in 2010. For perspective, Ohio State has lost 10 games to teams ranked outside the top 15 during that same span, Oklahoma 13 games, Florida State 20 games, Clemson 21 games and USC 26 games.
- In the five national championship seasons under Saban, the team went 17-2 against top-10 opponents.
- Since the start of Saban's second season in Tuscaloosa in 2008 the Tide are 27-9 overall against top-10 foes.
Saban likes to remind his coaches, "If you ain't coaching it, then you're letting it happen."
"But what separates Coach Saban is his ability to bring out the best in every one of his players."
"Just because we change people, we don't change philosophy," said Saban, "We don't change what we do, how we want to do it or why it's important to do it a certain way."
"The people that we hire don't come in and reinvent the wheel. They implement the philosophy that we have. Now, they have input and we make changes. We change all the time. I'm always looking for a better way. And when you get new people, you get new ideas, and that's a good thing. But the basic core of what we do, we don't change. You define the expectation for everybody, and this is [Bill] Belichick through and through and where I learned it, because then it's easy for people who understand what the expectation is to be accountable to it."
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...an-alabama-crimson-tide-future-coaching-plans
