re: Saban seemed unusually subdued

Pay for Longhorn Network and watch for this next season: When Texas is in a close game, Saban will be pretty calm and unemotional. When Texas is kicking the shite out of someone, Saban will flip his lid over a tiny mistake by a backup linebacker with 2 minutes left in the game.

That's just how he coaches. We were playing like garbage last night, and if we had ever managed to pull away from them he would have started ripping into guys. As it stood, that game was always one play away from potentially being a complete disaster.