Incredible Sportsmanship

My understanding is that they were team mates in HS.  Kudos to the Alabama player for finding JJ to give him his best.

Tremendous.  Just tremendous.  

Great moment from 2 great players with outstanding character! Thanks for posting... otherwise I may have missed it!

That's why Alabama, Georgia, and the like get respect. Great programs that understand how college football works. Teams in our own conference(looking at you OSU and MSU) would never show that kind of mutual respect.

Love it. JJ would have said the same thing had we lost. Class!

It is tremendous. They were also high school teammates.

I was seated in the Bama section and had a good experience with the fans.

Game of a lifetime!

I also thought I saw JJ run after Milroe to catch him before he got to the tunnel. Don't know if he caught him though.

Was impressed with Milroe in the post game press conference as well. 

So, I watched damn near ALL of the player Rose Bowl press conferences and Booker had one.  The guy has a winning personality, so this doesn't surprise me any.  In fact, save for Bond who came off extremely cocky in his session, all the players from both sides were a breath of fresh air.  Great kids all around.  That's due in part to the mentorship of both Harbaugh and Saban.

Class.

I know no one likes Alabama, but I have recently really enjoyed hearing Saban talk about leadership. His postgame conference was just class. He didn’t say the Brady Hoke “we didn’t execute,” which I always despised.

Saban said he was proud of the team, that he took responsibility and, for the Alabama fans, said several times how disappointed his players were losing. 
 

I never really liked the guy be he does things right.

Agree. Loved this. 

Over the years I have ran into a few real Bama fans and they have always been respectful and really good college football fans. As much as I don’t like the SEC love fest, they truly are better fans than the msu, osu variety. 

You love to see it - and you must tip the cap

Kudos. 

But you know what's really disappointing? That today, common sportsmanship is so rare that it's labeled as "incredible". Glad to see that some mothers raised their sons right 

If that were a Sparty, JJ would have been shived.

"Transfer to Michigan."

-JJ (I hope)

That was a great display of sportsmanship in the face of a loss.

And I'm glad that some other team got to do it for once.

Good to see players genuinely caring about the success of friends even when they are not current teammates.  

It's a good thing.

I have to imagine between IMG teammates and common opponents, JJ knows.a sizeable chunk of every SEC team. Great sportsmanship by both teams.

I very much admire good sportsmanship. Excellent job, young man!

No words.

Have always thought of Alabama program as a class act, have had great interactions with their fans and their players don't ever seem douchebaggy, on the whole.

Saban is Saban, but core Alabama fans and the program get pretty high marks from me.

Are there douchebags? Of course any program with their recent history of dominance will have them, but I view them as sort of that obnoxious part of the OSU fan base that just exists, though a good portion of their fan base are actually also somewhat reasonable. 

Respect. 

Refreshing.  Much respect for this type of sportsmanship.

That is freaking awesome!

Alabama's sophomore guard Tyler Booker played with J. J. McCarthy and Greg Crippen on the IMG Academy football team in 2020. Booker was a junior when McCarthy and Crippen were seniors. LINK Booker was a first team All-SEC offensive lineman this season. 

I wasn’t too thrilled to see many of our guys run to the Bama sideline after the game and do the dumb ass wave goodbye shit. We just won the Rose Bowl, celebrate with your team over taunting. 

I was seated amongst bama fans and they were all friendly and nice throughout the game and after. Was quite nice.

I root against Saban and Alabama, but I respect the shit out of them. They've always been classy and this is even more proof of that.

Awesome.