Ty Simpson’s sneak peek into Alabama’s mentality ahead of the Rose Bowl proves that the Crimson Tide is playing with house money
Ty Simpson and the Alabama Crimson Tide have made its mentality clear heading into the Rose Bowl.
The Alabama Crimson Tide has already done what few believed was possible after the SEC Championship, and what even fewer thought was possible after their 17-point deficit against the Oklahoma Sooners in round one of the College Football Playoff.
That would be a win in the playoff. Ahead of a Rose Bowl matchup against the number one overall seeded Indiana Hoosiers, Alabama is once again being doubted. For quarterback Ty Simpson and the Tide, though, that’s exactly where they want to be.
Ty Simpson, Alabama, has ‘us against the world’ mentality ahead of Rose Bowl
“Yeah, I think one, it starts with just kind of the not caring mentality,” said Simpson in his Rose Bowl presser via the Alabama YouTube channel. “I talked about after the game, about, you know, how everybody just kind of wrote us off, me included. It made me feel some type of way. And so thank you guys. Thank the media.”
“It’s kind of the same, you know, mentality going in, right? Like, nobody expected us to make it to the Rose Bowl. Nobody expected us to make it to the playoff. So, you know, it’s kind of the same thing, right? Like, just, you know, forget the world. It’s all about Alabama. And so that’s, you know, that’s the mindset going in. And it’s going to be the mindset forever, you know, forevermore.”
Simpson had a very similar stance immediately after the first round, thanking the media for giving the Tide motivation and counting them out. He also came out this past week in defense of Kalen DeBoer and the Tide when it comes to their toughness.
“One, playing the SEC is tough anyway. Playing at Alabama is tough. The stuff that we have to go through on a daily basis, the 4th Quarter, summer workouts, running stadiums, stuff that people don’t do … so that really frustrates us,” said Simpson via the Closed on Sunday’s pod on YouTube.
“And two, the schedule we go through. Playing at Florida State. We know what we did there, but that was a hostile environment and we learned from that. Going to Athens, playing a ranked Vandy team, Missouri, Tennessee, SC, Oklahoma twice, SECCG … things that build up over time that most teams can’t do in two years. We’re doing it in a season … That really pisses us off. It’s bulletin board material for us, honestly.”
So it’s clear that Simpson and the Tide are listening to the noise. When it’s all good, that noise is rat poison, and as Coach Saban would say, it can be fatal. But when it’s negative, it serves a purpose that Alabama aims to show again on Thursday during the Rose Bowl.
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