The Crimson Tide has been on the wrong end of field stormings the past seven times they’ve lost on the road, dating back to the Kick Six game at Auburn in 2013. If your school is in the third camp, the idea doesn’t sound quite so radical.Įnter Greg Byrne, Alabama athletic director. If your school is in either of the first two camps, you’re probably not in love with the rule revisions that could include taking away a home game from any school that violates the SEC sportsmanship policy by storming the field or court. We’ve got to continue to get better because there were a lot of plays we left out there tonight as well.When it comes to the outlook on fans storming the football field or basketball court, the Southeastern Conference membership can be divided into three groups: those who do the storming after an upset win, those who aspire to do the storming but haven’t pulled off a sufficiently huge upset and those who are stormed upon. I know what kind of defense - the crowd we’re about to face coming in here next Saturday - what kind of defense they have as well, so we’ve got to do a great job of getting ready to do it again, not take two steps forward and then take a step back next week. We’ve got another big challenge next week. I think it shows that when we execute, we can go up against anybody. That was a big boy SEC defense we just played, and our offensive line went toe-to-toe with them. I know (Owen Pappoe) didn’t play tonight for them, and he’s a heck of a player at linebacker, but they’ve got a fantastic front seven like Auburn always does, and that’s what excites me. I watched the Texas A&M game on television, and a lot of teams have had a hard time scoring points against those guys. On the offensive line: They were awesome. Xavier, I’m not really sure, I think he got, you know, he got hit over there on the sideline, I’m not sure if it was wind knocked out of him. We’ll have to evaluate tomorrow and kind of see how bad it is. On Cam Smith, Xavier Legette injuries: “Cam has got a knee injury, not sure the severity of it. But next man up, and man just Marcellas Dial and Darius Rush and those guys, it’s a fun group.” We had our starting defensive back go down with an injury tonight, our best DB who’s leading the SEC in pass breakups, he goes down in the first quarter. But for this to be the year one, and for us to be sitting here right now 6-5 when we’re playing our third quarterback of the season, and we lost our middle linebacker in game two against Georgia.

We have higher expectations, and this is just the start. Like our goals aren’t to win six games every year and go to a bowl game. On the future of the program: “This is just the start. For them to be going out with the sixth win and an opportunity to get to seven next week, and then to be going to a bowl game, just really happy for them, and very, very proud.” The coach that recruited them to South Carolina is not their head coach now. For all the adversity they’ve been through. It’s not fair to you guys to not.’ They bought in, and you know those guys, Jabari (Ellis), Jaylan Foster, I mean all those guys, just happy for them too. This isn’t some two- or three-year rebuild we’re building for the future, we’re gonna win now. I met with them back in January, and I can still remember sitting in the staff room and telling them, ‘Look, you don’t know me, I don’t know you, we’re gonna work together, but you’re the older guys.

I met with the super seniors, the guys that came back for an extra year when they didn’t have to, and this was their last go around. That was a really, really hurt bunch on Sunday, but they just come right back to work. Louis after the game to get on a plane and fly back. It wasn’t pretty last week out at Missouri, and that was a long bus ride back to St. And I’ll be honest with you, we don’t talk about bowls and all that stuff during the week, it was just about whatever we got to do to do our best this week.” Just so happy for our fans, and so happy for our players. We knew this was gonna be a physical SEC football game, and that’s what it was. And give credit to Auburn, they’ve got a heck of a team. We challenged them about coming out and bringing the energy and making noise, and they did. Opening statement: “I told you guys two weeks ago, what a night for South Carolina and what a night overall, and I didn’t know that two weeks later, it was gonna be even better.

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