This Alabama Crimson Tide team got off to a rough start to the season, struggling in early-season games and losing to the Texas Longhorns. But Alabama head coach Nick Saban wasn’t giving up on his team back in September, because he always felt it had more to show.
During an appearance on The Pat McAfee show this week, Nick Saban claimed that he thought this Alabama team “had something to prove,” despite the early-season struggles.
“I thought this team had something to prove,” Saban said on Wednesday on the Pat McAfee Show. “We had a lot of individuals on this team that had something to prove. We had a young team, so they were still trying to develop a reputation for themselves as players as well as how our team would develop.”
Alabama has certainly bounced back from the disappointing start and is right back in contention for the College Football Playoff. But Saban knows that the team still has a lot left to accomplish if it wants to be remembered in a positive light.
“I think that your legacy as a team and how the team gets remembered is always going to come down to how you finish,” Saban said. “So how we finish this season will be huge in terms of the positive self-gratification that this team can get for what they’ve put into it, how they’ve developed, how they’ve improved, the work that they’ve done. That’s something I’m very hopeful that I can contribute to in a positive way for them.”
We’ll have to see if Alabama can finish strong.
