Alabama CB Kool-Aid McKinstry: 'The Season's Still Ahead of Us'

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — No team wants to lose its second game of the season.

Alabama's loss to Texas on Saturday night was the first time the Crimson Tide lost one of its first two games of the season since 2003 — when Oklahoma came to Tuscaloosa and defeated Alabama 20-13.

The Crimson Tide showed a lot of flaws against the Longhorns, but there's a long season to go — and Alabama has a relatively favorable schedule the rest of the way.

None of that matters if the Crimson Tide can't figure out its problems and work to fix them. But Alabama isn't ready to quit on the season yet.

"Nobody’s ever won a national championship in Week 2, or lost it, so I feel like we have to come together and make sure we got everything together," cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry said. "The season’s still ahead of us. SEC play is still ahead, we still have opportunities to do everything that we want to still do as a team. So like you guys said, Week 2. It’s a big game, it’s a game and all, and it’s a game that we definitely want to win, but it doesn’t win a national championship or lose it."

"After a game like that, me personally, I haven’t even really been on social media to see what the media’s been saying, what people have been saying about us, what former players have been saying about us, because to be honest, there is nothing we can do about it, the game’s over with. All we can do is learn from our mistakes and move forward about it and just acknowledge our mistakes, go over it with coach and just move on, be a better team."

The Crimson Tide will look to take a step towards being a better team on Saturday, when Alabama travels to take on USF in Tampa, Fla. at 2:30 p.m. CT on ABC.

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