AUSTIN, Texas -- Nick Saban vacillated between pride and frustration as he met with the media following Alabama's heart-stopping 20-19 win over Texas on Saturday afternoon.
In a cramped, windowless room inside Darrell K Royal Stadium, the Crimson Tide's often crotchety coach smiled and offered to help a cameraman who was struggling to set up his microphone stand. Then he proceeded to praise his team's resilience.
"You gotta say that's great from a competitive standpoint, I think it's great from a team character standpoint," he said. "But if we're going to be the kind of team that we want to be, that we're capable of being, we're going to have to play better down in and down out.