This is a tremendous message that a lot of coaches fail to get across nowdays to highly recruited kids. It's a big reason why programs can rake in 5-star recruits by the bushel, but never win anything. A lot of these kids come in as 5-stars and leave as 2-stars.
It's not going to come easy if you want to be a champion, and more importantly.. nothing any recruiting publication says about you can prevent you from being a champion if you're willing to pay the price.
Coach Bryant made it pretty clear in a matter of about 2 minutes that he expected nothing less...
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Saban uses Coach Bryant's method to get this message across to recruits who aren't highly sought after. He took kids that nobody else wanted like Marcel Dareus, Mark Ingram, Rolando McClain, Javier Arenas, Kareem Jackson, Nick Gentry, Rashad Johnson, etc... and made them champions.