Everything Nick Saban said on Wednesday of Texas A&M game week
247"Kevin Elko talks to the team, and I think he made a good point. You can always ask yourself, 'What if?' You can ask yourself, 'What if I play with discipline? What if I dominate the guy? What if I play hard for 60 minutes? What if I maintain intensity?' Those are all questions that you ask yourself before something happens. And then you can say, 'Only if,' and that's what you ask yourself after it happens. You know, 'Only if I had done this, only if I'd prepared better, only if I had to play for 60 minutes.' So I think those are all lessons that we're trying to get our players to understand that you got to pay the price for success up front. And it's important that they prepare well. And they certainly have great respect for the team that they play and what they have to do to have the best chance to have success against them.
"This week is college football Mental Health Week. We're proud to be a part of the Hilinski Hope for three and a third, something that we supported last year when we played at South Carolina. I've also been involved for probably 20 years with Jason Foundation, which is all about suicide awareness and teens. So we think this is a very important cause to create awareness on a national basis. So a lot of people can be very, very supportive. We're also taking part in the First-and-Gold awareness to fight cancer, Children's Cancer Research and curing cancer for young people. I think they've raised like $17.5 million dollars over the years, and we're very pleased and happy to be a part of that as well.Sports
Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke to reporters via Zoom following Wednesday's practice session. Below is everything he said in his final press conference of Texas A&M week.
"I think the players are working really hard this week to take advantage of some of the lessons that we learned in the first game, (to) try to get prepared for a very, very talented Texas A&M team. They've got a lot of starters back. They've got a lot of experience. Got a lot of good players at key positions whether it's quarterback, running back, lots of good defensive players. We've had some tough games with these guys in the past and certainly need to elevate our game to maintain sort of the intensity and the standard of excellence that we want to play with for 60 minutes in the game. And I think everybody's got to challenge themselves to do that.”
"With that, we've looking forward to playing in Bryant-Denny Stadium this week, I know it won't be the same without all the fans, but we know you'll be there in spirit. And I hope the fans that are there will do a great job of helping our team and cheering out team along so that they can maintain the emotional standard that they need to be able to play well for 60 minutes.”
