AJ McCarron discussing Ryan Wiliams

[Rocky Mtn Bob]

When I was in college for architecture ... I personally had one [professor] tell me that my idea and concept was an A but my building and design was crap. This motivated me to do better and completely redesign my building and I ended up with a B in the class. ... The point is criticism no matter how harsh should motivate you to do better.

Oh and I wasn't getting paid millions.

Here's another angle from a real world situation. My first sales job, right out of college....

For some (crazy) reason my boss dropped the Bausch & Lomb account right in my lap. I wasn't an engineer and every B&L guy I called on was either an Electrical, Materials, Optics, Structural or Mechanical engineer ... or a PhD in Physics.

I returned to the office late one Friday afternoon to inform my boss I was pretty sure I'd just lost us the entire B&L account. The Head of the Fluid Optics Department (Don't ask me. I *still* have no clue.) had just finished FLAMING me up one side and down the other. That guy called me names I'd never even heard before! He denigrated my company, my co-workers, our technical solutions, and my personal heritage...!

My boss was ... smiling(!).

"Why are you smiling?"

"You need to know, if they're yelling at you like that, it's because they still believe you CAN fix it. It's when they STOP yelling at you that you need to worry; they've given-up on you."

I spent the whole weekend calling-in favors and Monday morning my team delivered the completed solution on the Department Head's desk.

I passed him in the B&L hallway Tuesday. He smiled and said, "We're friends again." (I didn't know we'd been "friends" before...!)

AJ may have motivated Ryan Williams to ... fix it.

 

[CB4]

My father lived to be 90 years old. He was born in 1907. He was 22 years old when the Great Depression hit.

His greatest lesson to me, and one I’ll take to my grave.

“Never let ANYONE second guess your effort. You control that. Sometimes you just must out work the other guy.”

It became my operating principle. When would I walk in to meet with a new client (usually physician, office manager and sometimes a hospital administrator) for the first time, I always ended that meeting with the following statement: “You can feel free to second guess my planning, my execution, my decision making and all the other things that may impact the success of what we are doing. But you will never be able to doubt my effort, my determination, my dedication to the task at hand and how hard I worked for you.”

 

[PGDocBama]

He had the nail polish on last year. I don't recall anything about the other last year.

He can wear all the nail polish he wants when he wins a NC. I won't say nothing but you shouldn't have any bling until you win something of note.

 

[FF4bama]

Here's another angle from a real world situation. My first sales job, right out of college....

For some (crazy) reason my boss dropped the Bausch & Lomb account right in my lap. I wasn't an engineer and every B&L guy I called on was either an Electrical, Materials, Optics, Structural or Mechanical engineer ... or a PhD in Physics.

I returned to the office late one Friday afternoon to inform my boss I was pretty sure I'd just lost us the entire B&L account. The Head of the Fluid Optics Department (Don't ask me. I *still* have no clue.) had just finished FLAMING me up one side and down the other. That guy called me names I'd never even heard before! He denigrated my company, my co-workers, our technical solutions, and my personal heritage...!

My boss was ... smiling(!).

"Why are you smiling?"

"You need to know, if they're yelling at you like that, it's because they still believe you CAN fix it. It's when they STOP yelling at you that you need to worry; they've given-up on you."

I spent the whole weekend calling-in favors and Monday morning my team delivered the completed solution on the Department Head's desk.

I passed him in the B&L hallway Tuesday. He smiled and said, "We're friends again." (I didn't know we'd been "friends" before...!)

AJ may have motivated Ryan Williams to ... fix it.

I saw AJ's comments as an attempt to challenge RW. It's the sort of thing one player says to another to get him to step up his game. For those of you getting upset with AJ, remember that this is a guy that got into a scrap with his own center up 42-14 in the final minutes of the National Championship Game against Notre Dame. He's a competitor, and his words were meant to stir RW up not tear him down.

 

[Ratal]

He had the nail polish on last year. I don't recall anything about the other last year.

 

[bamamc1]

He needs to get some Smitty highlights and note how Smitty played. Smitty was fast, like RW, but he ran routes the right way. Played/blocked every play, even when he wasn't getting the ball.

He also didn't say much, but let his game do the talking.

I thought it was troubling that he got quoted a couple days before the game, saying something like "we are going to be the most explosive offense/nobody will stop us."

I don't understand giving the opposing team "free" motivation like that!!!

Smitty is the best to ever play the position at Bama. Period

 

[spidermayin]

I remember Eddie George calling out Derrick Henry when he was playing for the Tennessee Titans during his early years. That lit a fire under Henry and the rest is history.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I’m having a hard time believing this is a real thing. A stuffed animal and nail polish? Really?

I thought it was a joke...but really?!?

 

[BamaMoon]

I thought it was a joke...but really?!?

NO, it's real.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

AJ has the right to do or say whatever he wants. That doesn't mean he should. How about instead of posting negative and very personal feelings about the current players, he posts about something that might not make future prospects run to UGA and Ohio St and Michigan and Auburn and anywhere else that the former players aren't berating the current players. All this crap is getting out of hand and if they would step back for a moment and count to 10 they would realize this is only hurting the program more, NOT HELPING!

 

[#1TidefannOh]

His little sister may have given it to him. She paints his nails.

 

[BamaFanInTally]

AJ didn’t say anything out of line and sure didn’t rag on the kid. I had a HS coach that demanded excellence and effort and would really light you up in a heartbeat if you needed it. This whole team needs a lot more mental toughness than what is on display.

 

[jashleyren2]

I’ve stayed away from posting this week, as my utter confusion about the direction of this 2025 Bama football team has left me without words.
I’ve read the comments here, and yall make some good points. The point , or “side” I’m going to take is one of BamaBuzzard: when you want big boy money and big boy fame, you also take the heat if it doesn’t work out.

Enough of this rewarding people for doing nothing.

 

[CajunCrimson]

It’s like we had Sgt Carter as a coach and now we have Gomer, Goober and Rerun (What’s Happening reference) running the team.

 

[Elefantman]

It’s like we had Sgt Carter as a coach and now we have Gomer, Goober and Rerun (What’s Happening reference) running the team.

It's more like we got Stuart Smally.

 

[BamaInCummingGA]

And how do you know he didn't do that? Can we stop with the speculation, please?

He got thrusted into the spotlight as a 17 year old and he's been made a leader of this team and he didn't have much of a choice.

He thrust himself into the spotlight at 17. HE reclassified, HE decided to enroll in college early, HE took the NIL. Don't act like these guys are innocent little babies.