The standards at Alabama clearly don’t resemble the majority of teams throughout college football, and where some would use a national championship loss as a benchmark game, it’s simply not good enough in Tuscaloosa.
Head coach Nick Saban has said prior that he leaves it up to each individual player to find their own source of self-motivation whether it be accomplishing the task at hand or using last season’s loss as fuel. But that hasn’t stopped the Crimson Tide from letting each other forget how last season ended.
During the team’s player interviews on Friday, it was shared that Alabama actually keeps its runner-up trophy, otherwise known as the “participation trophy” on display in the team’s cafeteria for all to see.