UW linebacker Alphonzo Tuputala wouldn't address his future at the Sugar Bowl.
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00:00 >> You're a fifth year junior, is there any question about your return next year?
00:04 >> I haven't really been thinking about that to be honest,
00:06 I've just been so focused on what we got now.
00:08 >> It's just not automatic, you're gonna have to sit and think about it?
00:10 >> I guess one of those, I'm just, we'll get there when we get there,
00:13 I'm just focused on what we gotta do now.
00:14 >> Chose these coaches and not what you're gonna run off with.
00:19 >> Yeah, I think just chose Coach Laborde, just his loyalty and
00:24 his commitment to the players because that was one thing that Coach Laborde told us
00:27 is that he's gonna stay committed to us, he's all about the team,
00:29 he's all about the guys that built this program up.
00:32 And he's done a great job with that, being able to trust us,
00:35 being able to trust these players to go out there and perform.
00:37 That's the biggest thing, that's what helped and
00:39 built that relationship from team to head coach.
00:41 >> How would you describe the coach?
00:43 >> Coach Laborde?
00:44 >> The coach, the culture.
00:46 >> The culture?
00:46 >> Yeah.
00:47 >> The brotherhood, man, the brotherhood, I can't even say that enough, and
00:50 I truly mean the brotherhood.
00:52 If you go to our locker room or if you just see us hang out,
00:55 you will see O'Leiman hanging out with DB,
00:57 you will see running backs hanging out with the specialists.
01:00 No one's left out, that's the thing.
01:01 When you come to U-Dub, no one is left out, you're gonna be involved.
01:04 Everybody cares for each other.
01:07 It's not just all words.
01:09 If you think it's just all words, put on the tape and
01:11 show those games were in critical moments.
01:13 You don't just do that by not being a unified team.
01:16 You don't just do that by not being brothers for real.
01:19 And so that's the biggest thing when you come here, the culture is contagious.
01:22 And when you play hard and when you succeed,
01:25 just like how we've had up to this point, football is just fun now.
01:30 That's the best part about it.
01:31 You're just enjoying it with the people you work for
01:33 about six months with, that you're close with.
01:36 I know this person so much more, I know him so much more, so
01:39 it makes me wanna go that much harder whenever I'm playing.
01:42 So when you come to U-Dub, you're gonna enter a culture where every man is playing
01:45 for each other because they know that man through thick and thin.