“When you’d lose a game, the way [Alabama's Coach Nick Saban] was after was the most incredible thing I’ve seen in a college football coach of the guys I’ve ever worked for,” said Mike Vollmar, who worked for Saban at Michigan State and Alabama.
Nick Saban has won seven national championships during a career where he’s established himself as college football’s greatest coach.If you’re an Alabama fan licking your wounds after watching a 15-year win streak against Tennessee go up in smoke over the weekend, that gives you optimism moving forward. As Leo McGarry in “West Wing” would say, Saban has been down in the hole before, and he knows the way out.one of the chapters, “Don’t Waste a Failing,” is dedicated to how Saban handles losses.
“Not looking at the scoreboard, not worrying about results, not being fearful of what’s gonna happen if something bad happens or if we lose a game,” Saban said. “Just go play, compete, and then when the game’s over, and we do that and do it well as a collective group, we can live with the results. So that’s what it’s our job, my job, to help these players get to that point.”
“When you’d lose a game, the way he was after was the most incredible thing I’ve seen in a college football coach of the guys I’ve ever worked for,” Vollmar said. “There was a teaching moment, everything that got to that point why we lost the game, and here’s what we’re going to need to do to move on.”
The rare losses have also been a rallying point for teams on their way to championships. Jimmy Courtenay, an offensive lineman on Saban’s 2003 LSU title team, told me that the national championship wouldn’t have happened without a regular season loss to Florida. LSU was feeling good after big wins over Georgia and Mississippi State, and the failure against the Gators made everyone on the team realize to win it all would require a more significant commitment.
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