Coaches are notorious for hyping up their opponents. Dean Smith could make the VMI basketball team sound like the Visigoths getting ready to plunder Rome.
But nobody can question Duke’s David Cutcliffe when he calls Alabama “Probably the most talented team, top-to-bottom, in the country. On top of that they’re extremely well-coached. They don’t have a lot of penalties, they don’t bust assignments, they don’t make errors. They make you play their strengths.”
How do you counter that?
“You take your team and work as hard as you can on what you think your strengths are and how you have to go about developing and building on those.