Everything Nick Saban said on Wednesday of Ole Miss game week
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Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke to reporters via Zoom on Wednesday, the third day of Ole Miss week. Below is everything he said in his final media availability of the week.
"Well, practice has been pretty good. Players seem to have pretty good attention and focus on what they're doing, what they're trying to do. This is a difficult preparation on both sides of the ball because of the way they play on defense is a little different and you know their offense is very multiple and they do a good job of taking advantage of whatever you do on defense. Our players have been really good. I talked to players afterwards about you've got to be accountable for your actions because there's always a day of reckoning. And if you do the right things, you have the right effort, you have the right habits, you do the right things, you have the right words, you're accountable to everything that you do, then your reckoning is always good. When you don't do that, you know, sometimes things don't work out so good when the reckoning comes.
"This is probably the first big game that we've had here for now like a year and a half because of last year with COVID. I know we've had a couple home games but this is an SEC game at home for the first time in a couple years, and I hope our fans are as excited about it as our team is. Playing a really good team. They got a lot of really good players. They do a great job in execution and it's gonna be a real challenge for us. When we played down in Florida, I mean it was really, really tough on our team. And you could tell. So hopefully we can make it a little bit that way for their team. We're just excited to be playing in a big game at home in our stadium against a good team, and hopefully, our fans, our players and everybody will have great passion and enthusiasm for this game.
"This is college football mental health week. We're part of the Hilinski For Hope group, always have been very, very supportive of the family and the cause. So we're proud to be a part of that awareness this week, as well."
