Patrick Murphy uses scene from Lucille Ball to describe this year's Alabama team

Patrick Murphy and Alabama softball’s season came to an end with a 6-4 loss to Florida in the Women’s College World Series Sunday.

But Murphy had a great analogy to describe his team. He used a scene acted by Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy and yes, he had to explain it to a modern audience.

Go back to the 1950s if you want to see the actual scene performed by Ball, but Murphy said it perfectly encapsulated this Alabama team.

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“Then I just told the team, I try to think of a good analogy for this group, and when you watch a show, a TV show, probably a lot of you have seen Lucille Ball, maybe not, maybe nobody has seen it, but there’s a scene where they’re crushing grapes, and they’re trying to make wine,” Murphy said. “They get to the bottom of the barrel, and they have all these grapes are just done. They have every single ounce of juice out of those grapes. That’s it.

“That is this team. They squeezed every single ounce of being a great teammate, being great leaders, being great reps of the University of Alabama, worked their butts off, and they got here beyond anything that I could ever imagine. It’s been one of the most enjoyable teams to coach in my career.”

Murphy also opened up on what “Team 28” meant to him and he even told a story dating back to football season.

“I think it started with football. They lost to Texas. They had a lousy game against South Florida. Then they just kept getting better and better and better. I love being a spring sport because I get to learn from the fall sports,” Murphy said. “Then here comes basketball. They had a couple rough outings. Then they pull it together. Nobody, nobody thought that they could get to the Final Four. Nate Oats takes this team for the first time ever to the Final Four.

“I’m thinking, We can do that, we can do the same thing. Any coach that has a rough start or a rough go, whatever, you don’t give up on a team. You don’t give up on anybody. You heard them, they did not give up on each other. Nobody quit. Everybody kept working. It started to kind of reveal itself a little bit. We played better, better, better, better, better.”

Murphy saw that momentum carry for Alabama.

“Then magic for regionals. You saw what happened at super regionals,” Murphy said “I thought we played really well down the stretch. It’s a team whose legacy is going to be they didn’t give up on each other, they kept working. Doesn’t matter what you do regular season, you get a whole new start and you can start fresh. I think they proved to everybody that it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. A great lesson for a lot of teams.”