Updates from tides coach nick saben

Six of these titles were with Alabama, while the title came when Saban was the head coach at LSU. While Saban is now 70 years old and would have been forced to retire under previous Alabama law, he now joins Mack Brown as the only septuagenarian leading FBS programs.

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But I think Kirby has done a really really good job there. I congratulated him on the win. I'm really proud of him. And I'm proud of the way he's been able to coach his team and the consistency that they've played with all year. These two guys sitting up here, they're not defined by one game they played great for us all year, they were great competitors, great leaders on this team and they contributed tremendously to the success of this team.

And we would not be here without them. And both of them take responsibility for the loss, but both of them contributed in a lot of ways, in a positive way, to giving us a chance to win and a chance to be here to have an opportunity to win. So, I just want to thank them for that and let everybody know how proud I am of these two guys.

Coach, you talked about the injury to Jameson. How did you think some of the young guys stepped up at receiver? And how much will it help them moving into next season with this experience? I think these kinds of experiences are invaluable in terms of -- the thing that's tough about it is we played some guys tonight that didn't get to play much during the season.

So they didn't have much experience going in. And they had some opportunities and they made some plays. And I'm sure that will help their confidence. And they'll grow and learn from this. And it will be a positive experience for them and their development in the future. You just stopped and kind of made sure that the two players heard what you said. But heading into the offseason, how confident are you that Bryce Young and Will Anderson will be able to bounce back from this just from what you've seen from them as players?

Great competitors always respond well to adversity. There's nobody that feels worse about losing this game than these two guys. So I know we look at things from our perspective, but internally, on a team, these players put a lot of hard work in. They made a lot of sacrifices to contribute to the team so the team has a chance to have success, to have an opportunity to be here. There's nobody that feels worse about that than them. And there's nobody that's going to want to do more to try to get better so that they have an opportunity to have success in the future.

And I think that's what great character people do. And I think this team demonstrated great character all year long in their ability to overcome a lot of tough things.