Jackie Sherrill Quotes (6 Quotes)

I had a list of all the possible assistant coaches. I asked input from a lot of people - the administration, the alumni, the players. And R. C.'s name kept coming up.

When I got ready to leave, I recommended two people - R.C. and John David Crow. Fortunately, they were hired and they were able to keep things going without missing a beat. R.C. had all the ingredients to be a head coach. He was an outstanding recruiter. And he had a good feel for managing a staff from his work as defensive coordinator.

If I'd known there was this much prep work involved, I wouldn't have done it.

Trust me when I say this Steve doesn't want anybody's sympathy. In fact, he wants people to make fun of him because the more they make fun, the tougher he will get. And here's a warning to anybody who might make fun if he struggles early You better look out when he finally gets his players in there. He's on a mission. He will get the job done.

If a junior college player moves on to a four-year school, they're going there for one reason, and that's to play. If they don't play, they're not very happy. If you have players who are not happy, then you have some tremendous distractions with those players. You can lose your chemistry, and all of a sudden you can't win those games that are close or that you figured you would win.

Those Mountain West officials weren't going to call any pass interference. Those guys do that call games involving spread offenses 24 hours a day out there. Alabama lucked out on that.