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Everyone keeps talking about our game with Miami [in the 1993 Sugar Bowl]. The reason we won...

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Everyone keeps talking about our game with Miami [in the 1993 Sugar Bowl]. The reason we won against Miami is this: We had the ball 15 minutes more than they did. We ran the ball for 275 yards against Miami. They ran the ball for less than 50 yards. When the game was over, we won. After a game, it may not look good. The alumni may be asking why we are not entertaining them. Let me assure you that our job is to win football games. You win football games by running the ball, stopping the run and being on the plus side of giveaway-takeaways.

Alabama head coach Gene Stallings from the 1993 Coach of the Year Clinic football manual. You know how everyone nowadays is complaining about how Alabama's games are so boring to watch? Well, Coach Stallings' answer to that two decades ago still applies today.