Click here for linkLeadership lessons from Alabama football coach Nick Saban: Turning a loss into an opportunity for growth
The Alabama football team won its 14th national championship after overcoming an overtime loss to LSU during the regular season. The loss on Alabama’s home field looked to be the end of the Crimson Tide’s championship push. However, Alabama football coach Nick Saban turned the loss into an opportunity to teach and improve his team. The refocused Alabama team routed LSU in a rematch.
Saban focused his team members on doing their jobs and ignoring what was beyond their control. Ultimately, this was Saban’s message all season, and it is his typical message about striving for individual excellence. However, the LSU loss presented a few unique opportunities to tailor this message to the uniqueness of the moment.
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Saban used the LSU loss to exhort his players to do better. Following Alabama’s loss to LSU, Saban took the opportunity to refocus his team on its core mission—pay attention to detail and be relentless in your pursuit of perfection.
Saban told the Alabama football team in the locker room after the LSU loss, “We need to learn from this. We need to make a commitment to the rest of the season, in terms of what kind of a football team we want to be and the way we want to respond to what happened here today. You guys have too much in it, you put too much into it, you have too much character, too much class, too much leadership here not to finish this season the right way.” ...
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