“First of all, I don’t think it’s really fair to the team to create the kind of expectations that it created for the team before they ever have a body of work, but that’s kind of the nature of the beast in this day in age. I think being able to handle that – not putting pressure on yourself to try to live up to that expectation – sort of creates a lot of anxiety in some cases. You put pressure on yourself, whatever it is, which means you’re really focused on outcomes, not process.
“I think that’s the biggest thing that we gotta get our players back to doing. When I say ‘You got to focus on what it takes to win and enjoy winning’ that’s what I’m talking about. Not the pressure to win and then the relief when you win, rather than the joy that you won. There’s a difference in all that. I’m not blaming anybody for it, it is what it is, but you gotta be able to handle that and not let it affect you. I’ve done, I guess, a pretty average job of getting our players out of that mode.
“The pyramid downstairs doesn’t say ‘Win the SEC Championship,’ it doesn’t say ‘Win the National Championship,’ it says ‘Be a Champion,’ and these are the things that you have to do to be a champion. If you can do those things, you have a chance to win a championship. So if you’re focus is on the championship, are you really focused on doing the things you need to do to get there? And I would say that’s the thing that we need to do a better job of focusing on.”
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