As the number one team in all of college football gets ready to face Ole Miss later tonight, Alabama head coach Nick Saban used a memorable speech from the college career of University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow to keep his squad from taking the Rebels lightly.
Saban told his players to watch clips from a speech that Tebow made at a post-game press conference after his 3rd-ranked Florida Gators had been upset by Ole Miss back in 2008.
During his weekly press conference, Saban commented about using the past to provide his team with motivation:
?I saw a video tape a couple of weeks ago when we played somebody about Tim Tebow giving his famous speech after they were undefeated for a year and won the national championship and were going undefeated the next year and had won 20-some games in a row or whatever.
?Guess what? Guess who? Guess when? Somebody beat them. At home, in their place and then there was the famous speech. ?It?s never going to happen again.? Well, do you have to have an ?I told you so? game and does somebody have to give that speech for you to do what you need to do to realize what?s at stake, to realize the opportunity you have to have a very successful, significant season if you can play one game at a time and respect the people you play, and play to your very best each and every time that you play??
What do the players think of Saban?s Tim Tebow gambit? Well, here are comments from junior cornerback Dee Milliner about the speech:
?They?ll have it playing. Then we?ll come in certain groups and watch it. We?re trying to not let it be us that same way that happened to them. We?re not trying to make it have a loss and then we have to give a big speech after it because we lost the game,? says Milliner.
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Nick Saban references Tim Tebow, shows memorable speech to team [Al.com]
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