LOS ANGELES -- Just days away from leading Alabama into the College Football Playoff semifinal against Michigan, starting quarterback Jalen Milroe said Thursday that former Tide offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien once told him he shouldn't play quarterback.
"How would you feel if I told you [that] you suck?" Milroe said of what it was like to receive that remark from his former coordinator. "He told me a bunch of positions I could have switched to, but look where I'm at right now. Who gets the last laugh?"
O'Brien, who was the team's offensive coordinator in the previous two seasons, was replaced by Tommy Rees this past offseason after O'Brien left to become offensive coordinator with the NFL's New England Patriots.