You have to score to win.
That’s one lesson the University of Alabama soccer team learned last year.
You have to play together to score.
That’s the other.
The Crimson Tide enters the 2016 season, which begins Friday at 7 o’clock at home against Sam Houston State, confident that it has absorbed those lessons, and more confident than last year’s bottom-of-the-SEC finish should give it reason to be.
Alabama went 5-12-2 overall, 2-9 in the league, in Wes Hart’s first season. It didn’t take long for the coach, who came with a national championship pedigree from his tenure as a Florida State assistant, to address the situation.