American - Coach | December 23, 1975 -
It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.
Kirby Smart
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I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.
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The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities.
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There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.
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I think you never leave what you learn.
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If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play.
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It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way.
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I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.
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I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?
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A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'
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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.
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