I must have missed it. I didn't hear him address it at all, other than to say he sensed "complacency" in the players after the LSU game.I think Coach Saban did take responsibility.....
He even said, "THEY" stopped respecting what it takes to win.
Understand my friend, and I'll repeat it, I think Coach Saban is the best football coach on the planet.
He has no peer.
But, in my opinion, there should only be one word in a coaches vocabulary when he describes the reasons that a team went a little downhill. That word is, "WE". It's never "THEY".
The coach has the responsibility of sensing the mood of his team and changing it if it's not the mood he feels they need to have to be successful.
I love Coach Saban but if he sensed a complacency setting in after the LSU game, then he should have done what Coach Bryant would have done, and called a midnight sprint session to remind them that the season wasn't over.
Wouldn't you agree with me on that?
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