Alabama tight end Michael Williams speaks to the media at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college football media days in Hoover, Ala. on Thursday, July 19, 2012.HOOVER, Ala. – One week.
That’s how long the Alabama football team celebrated last year’s national championship before turning its attention to this season and a chance to claim its first back-to-back titles since 1978 and ’79.
“We’d been back on campus about a week when the [midyear] freshmen came in,” tight end Michael Williams said Thursday morning at the Southeastern Conference’s annual football media days.
“From then on it was back to work. Lifting weights, running, doing whatever it takes to make sure we don’t let 2010 happen again.”
For most schools, what happened to Bama in 2010 would set off its own celebration.