Nick Saban
Nick Saban
Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Alabama, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other universities: Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Toledo. His eight-year contract totaling US$32 million made him one of the highest paid football coaches, professional or collegiate, in the United States at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth31 October 1951
CityFairmont, WV
CountryUnited States of America
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It was a close call. You don't want the game to come down to that situation if you're playing like you're supposed to for the 60 minutes in the game. Secondly, we need to be (holding) the ball so it's not close.
It's important how you respond to good things and bad things. We should enjoy this for 24 hours, but this is one game in a long season.
It's certainly an area that, if the opportunity presents itself, we will try to make some improvements in.
It's an expectation: What are the most important things to accomplish at this time? To find out as much as we can about what those combinations are may be more important at this time than the end result so we can build on a better end result in the long term.
It looked like we were playing on the beach, ... Maybe Gus didn't have a lot of opportunities to do much.
It's difficult to know what 15 players are going to get picked before we pick. This is a time when nobody really ever really tells the truth about what they plan to do. We have to be ready and have every player evaluated.
It's been wonderful. I really do feel like this was coming home to play a game and it was exciting for me even though I didn't say it (earlier). It was exciting to be back in Tiger Stadium and I feel really great that our team did a nice job to make us proud of how they played.
It was a heavyweight fight. A real street fight. Both teams competed their hearts out. It was about as physical a game as I've seen in a long time.
Anytime you make plays, they have a lot to do with the momentum. That play did,
That's a part of the business. Now he is going to have to overcome it and we are going to have to help him overcome it.
The last couple of days I've seen it in a lot of guys' eyes to the point where you really have a lot of compassion.
It was a difficult decision because I thought he was doing very well and making a lot of progress. I don't think it's a situation right now where we can wait for a guy for a significant amount of time.
It took us out of sync a little bit,