I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.
We've got to recruit at the same level of the people who are winning titles and playing for titles, and to do that, we've got to have great facilities.
It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.
At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships.
It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid.
Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.
There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.
My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.
Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different.
It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.
A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'
When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest.
I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.
Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family.
