So, Patrick asked, Tagovailoa would leave if Saban didn’t make the switch?
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“I wanted to be here for them win or lose just to tell them how proud we are of them”, Jill Gambill said. “Both of them made a great contribution to the success of the team this year”.
“I really think they are deserving of love”. But it just seems to me like, if we’re going to have the best chance to win this game, that we may need to do it in a different way.
The future is bright, and we should also truly appreciate the season we experienced this year. And for what? For fear of offending Hurts or Saban or protective Alabama fans? The winning play was indeed called “Seattle”.
“This will be a game that I’ll never forget”, Saban said Tuesday morning.
On Monday night, it was Tua Tagovailoa who would find Smith streaking down the Georgia sideline. The freshman threw a flawless strike downfield and showed remarkable poise after Georgia sacked him for a 16-yard loss on the previous play.
The players, as is normal in college football, were not yet on the field for the anthem.
Even the youngest Georgia fans came back to welcome home their team.
While it wasn’t in a national championship game, Saban has been in a similar situation during his coaching career.
Unlike Hurts, Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm didn’t walk away with a national title, but he didn’t wallow in the loss.
Overtime did that, and got the kid who hooked that ball off the hook forever in Alabama.
Tagovailoa started the second half and completed 14 of 24 passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns with an interception.
Though Calvin Ridley played for Alabama and Riley Ridley played for Georgia, the brothers were happy for one another’s efforts and celebrated the end of the game together.
Tagovailoa’s production and heroics on the biggest stage the sport has to offer combined with Hurts being limited in the passing game has led some to already anoint the Hawaiian sensation as the starter heading into the 2018 offseason. It is hard to enjoy sustained success as an SEC quarterback when you are consistently facing some of the best defenses in the country. “I mean, it was a team effort – [It] couldn’t have been done if the defense didn’t give us the ball back, the offensive line didn’t do their job and receivers didn’t catch, [it was a] team effort”. The Hawaii native entered the game in the third quarter, providing a spark Alabama’s offense desperately needed.
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Pushing through a 13-point halftime deficit against their SEC rival Georgia Bulldogs, coach Nick Saban’s team dramatically forced overtime and eventually scored a 26-23 victory.
