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Saban: Alabama has overachieved this year
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:11 pm
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The question was straightforward, but Nick Saban needed an extra second to come up with an answer.
What's this particular Alabama team's best quality?
His response was relatively out of character. He led with "the E word."
"To be honest," Saban said, "I think this team has kind of exceeded expectations."
How does a team that won the previous year's national championship, another one two years earlier and entered the season ranked No. 2 in most major polls exceed expectations?
"If you look at all the players that we lost last year, the leadership that we lost, the injuries that we've had, the schedule that we played, the adversity that had to be overcome, the new roles that so many people had on this team, the young players who had opportunities to really kind of show what they could do and how quickly they would mature to be able to do their job in a way that would give us a chance to be successful as a team, I'm really proud of what this team actually was able to accomplish together as a group," Saban said.
"The team chemistry, the positive energy that they had, the responsibility that everyone has kind of taken for their own self-determination and sort of doing their job, and the way this team has worked and worked hard together to try to become a very good football team and to try to improve."
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Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:12 pm to Bench McElroy
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Alabama has overachieved this year
True but so what? They did what was necessary, as has ND. No one else has.
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:12 pm to Bench McElroy
Erroneous. Expectations at Bama under Saban always consist of a national title at season's end.
It is literally impossible for them to excede expectations.
It is literally impossible for them to excede expectations.
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:13 pm to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
And 10 pages
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:19 pm to Bench McElroy
2013 was supposed to be the banner year, it just got moved up somehow imo
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:22 pm to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
lol
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:27 pm to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
he lost me here.
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:28 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:spot on IMO.
the schedule that we played
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:31 pm to Bench McElroy
Saban is butthurt for saying that....oh wait...
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:31 pm to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
Did lil' nicky say this with a straight face?
talk sbout gall....
This post was edited on 1/6/13 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:55 pm to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:59 pm to Bench McElroy
Agreed. This was suppose to be somewhat a down year, by that I mean about 10 wins. This was suppose to be LSU's year.
Posted on 1/6/13 at 9:26 pm to Bench McElroy
This team has definitely exceeded my expectations for this year. Hope they do it some more tomorrow night!
Posted on 1/6/13 at 9:52 pm to Bench McElroy
No they haven't. They started #1 in some polls.
Posted on 1/6/13 at 9:54 pm to Bench McElroy
I think LSU , A&M, Florida , USC all would have had one loss had they played Bama's schedule.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 8:39 am to Bench McElroy
Alabama is a 3 loss team, I've been saying this all season long. There is no dominant team this year. Notre Dame is also a 3 loss team as well as LSU...Ha, Ha!!! It takes a good football team with some luck to make the NC game. Two good football teams made this years NC game with some luck. But don't tell Bama and ND. They both feel they are head and shoulders over all other college football teams.
Posted on 1/7/13 at 8:42 am to Bench McElroy
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the schedule that we played
Wut?
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