Shaun Alexander Relives His Freshman Season at Alabama
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00:00Talking to the 2005 NFL MVP, and by the way, the MVP of so many fantasy football teams
00:07back in the day, rumbling for yards with Walter Jones and Steve Hutchinson.
00:10But you're the perfect person to ask you, Sean, going to Alabama as a freshman.
00:16Talk to the people out here because, you know, going to a university expected to
00:20win national championships, you show up on campus as a 17 or 18 year old as a freshman.
00:25Talk about your freshman year at Alabama and even the redshirt year
00:28that got you ready to perform at the highest level.
00:32Yeah, you know, Alabama has always been the same thing.
00:34It's going to be strong competition.
00:37You're going to learn a lot about yourself.
00:38Are you willing to go be the man that your talent could possibly take you to be?
00:44And so my freshman year was a lot of fun.
00:46It was a lot of hard work.
00:48You learn a lot about who you are and what you really got going on inside of you.
00:52And then, of course, being redshirted, you know, I was behind my head coach was Gene
00:56Stallings, you know, legendary coach, Bear Bryant's favorite assistant.
01:00You know what I mean?
01:01So I got all this history behind it.
01:03You didn't play freshman that much, you know, especially on offense.
01:06And so I would come off the bench and, you know, put up these staggering numbers.
01:11They go back to the sidelines again.
01:12And so you had to learn a lot about humility, about being patient to play at Alabama.
01:18And you still knew that you're going to have a shot to win a championship every year.
01:22And so that's the line.
01:23And so I think, like, that's what's really missing with today's football.
01:27You got NIL.
01:29You got social media.
01:30And the two things that really help damage a person's development, it's fame and money.
01:36If you don't handle those things well, you won't really give yourself a chance to be
01:40the fullness of what you could be.
01:42And so I run my program, the PLP program, which I take some of the winners and some
01:46of the guys that are nominated all the way through and some pro guys, too.
01:50I run them through that program about, can we develop you into being elite, being excellent,
01:55and leaving a legacy that matters?
01:58So that, for me, was a part of it at Alabama, was learning how to go through that state,
02:03how to get that back to college football and pro football.