"I hope we will choose to kick."

Typically severe and serious, Nick Saban still occasionally has fun twinks, and the Alabama football coach had a dramatic response when someone called in his weekly radio show and asked him if he would choose to receive or receive, if his team won the coin toss on Saturday in his road match against LSU.

On the Hey Coach and Nick Saban's showhe responded with hilarity:

"To be honest with you, I hope we will choose to kick ass, that 's what I hope we will do. But usually, I do not really decide before being a little closer to the match, because we always take into account the weather. "

While he is preparing his top-ranked football team to face his most formidable opponent so far in the No. 4 Tigers this season, Saban said he did not care. try to convince everyone that his team was not perfect and that there was no guarantee of success everyone on his schedule.

This week, aside from the alleged short break of the team to celebrate Saban's 67th birthday on Wednesday, the coach said he advocated self-assessment of his players in that which concerns self-awareness, effort, concentration and skill before traveling to Death Valley. and try to stay undefeated.

LSU is an outsider with two touchdowns against Crimson Tide and his exceptionally lethal offensive, led by Heisman Trophy candidate Tua Tagovailoa, who has yet to launch an interception this season. Alabama made its debut at the top of the college football playoff standings and has a 82% chance to qualify for the playoffs, as well as a 33% chance to defend its national championship title.

But Saban has nothing to do with this and, as he explained in a mini-talk on the radio, he just needs to convince his players that they are beatable, and nothing is a safe bet.

Saban says:

"The essential is very simple. The principal must be the principal, and that's how you play. The arrogance is never going to win a game, no matter what your current performance is, it will not help you win the next game. Crowds do not score points. Statistics do not enter passes. Newspapers do not run the ball. Fans do not block and attack. Your safety as a football player depends on your ability to run and on a level and you really do not want to leave your teammates behind. …

"I gave up a lot of you and Eli and all the others who thought we would win every game, without thinking that the other team was so good that those guys with whom we play are very good and we "I will have to play damn well to beat them. "