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.