Handling Pressure

No one can know the pressure that Saban and Miles experienced leading up to the game. With all the hype being given to the "great" Nick Saban, I have to imagine he felt more pressure. To have a statue built to your image and unrelenting praise heaped upon you daily by the media must be quite seductive. To have a large number of top recruits visiting, including Landon Collins, along with 5 top recruits from Georgia makes the pressure more intense. To be ranked number two to LSU, your former school, must be humiliating. And then to have a quirky, grass eating, coach that media love to make fun of, come in to your house and win...

Nick Saban is one of the greatest coaches around. But he is not above the pressure. Your players will feel that pressure, no matter how many times you tell them to chill. That pressure does affect performance.