One-on-one with North Alabama head coach Brent Dearmon: Pt. 1

we're heading into the second season for you here in the schs tell me a little bit about what you learned in the first season and what you're hoping to improve on this year you know I thought we have a very resilient football team you're you're looking at a a team that a year before had zero FCS wins only win was a a very close D2 win um that that had had kind of been a little down and out beaten up and and come into last year and and have seven out of 11 games you had a lead in at some point most of them going into halftime um we knew that we needed more depth that's a lot of the reason why you can't hold on to a lead is because you need to increase your depth a little bit um but we have a group that never quit they never stopped fighting even all the way down to playing Florida State on National Television in front of 1.3 million people uh where no one in the world gave us a chance and you come out and take a 13 nothing lead it's 24 to 13 and a half um I didn't think our kids ever back down they never quit so I learned that we've got a team that doesn't quit for sure when you think back to that Florida State game as you said you had so many eyes on you guys you guys went up 13 nothing what do you think that did for the confidence of the team even though it wasn't the end result you were hoping for you know it really catapulted our offseason workouts um where where you got guys like Edwin white Schultz or um you got Gage sa our leader up front that can come and address the team afterwards and say listen guys you saw tonight for a quarter what this team could have been you saw tonight for a half what this team could have been and we don't want to look at each other next year um and say what could have been we want to perform like this we want to play like this at all times it sent a message to our coaching staff that I think that game we we had more trick plays than we ever had before uh it really sent a message to us that that um it it really fuels our guys to do little things like that a little bit more often so um we we may pull out the bag of tricks a little bit more than than we had been but um I think for our guys it really catapulted us into a great offseason workouts