Before the start of fall camp last month, Nick Saban gathered everyone inside Alabama’s team auditorium to lay out his vision for the next 30 days. The 66-year-old head coach told his players about how difficult the training would be, how they’d have to get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable, how they needed to realize “we’ve kind of raised the standard in college football.”

It was a message meant to challenge a team coming off a national championship, china nike nfl jerseys cheap a team hoping to avoid complacency while also wearing the burden of a preseason No. 1 ranking. In other words: You set the bar, so you’d better find a way to get over it.

Nine months earlier, Jimbo Fisher stood in front of reporters, university staffers and hundreds of alumni inside the “Hall of Champions” at Kyle Field as he was introduced as the new head coach at Texas A&M. Donning a maroon blazer and tie, Fisher — a onetime offensive coordinator for Saban at LSU — went into detail about why he left Florida State and how soon he hopes to take the Aggies from being a good college football program to an elite one.

“Yesterday,” he said with a laugh.

“Listen, I’m not a very patient guy. Now, in saying that, we have a process. And you’re going to hear me say this word a hundred times: It’s not about the outcome, it’s about the process. If the process of how you do your business and what you’re doing is right, the outcomes will be there.”cheap nfl nike jerseys from china

Sound familiar? It certainly does to Saban, who coined the term “The Process” back when he was coaching at Michigan State — before he won a combined six national championships at LSU and Alabama and became the gold standard of college football coaches everywhere.

Now, as Saban told his players at Alabama, people were trying to “figure out what we do” by hiring his former assistants. Four of his protégés are currently head coaches in the SEC alone.

“They’re trying to catch us,” Saban said. “They’re trying to get what we got. And we’ve got to do it better.”