Lane Kiffin: Saban decided to implement the HUNH

He had an interview in front of the media today and was asked this question:

Q. Last year Coach [Saban] talked about is this what we want college football to be. Games like Auburn, up and down the field. Has he had a hard time adjusting to the offense and defense at times?

COACH KIFFIN: I think once again, as you look at this, and you look at Coach Saban and one of the many reasons why he is so successful and the best coach in college football is he's not stubborn. He's not just we're going to do this because we do this. He's always researching, always looking at everything within the program and trying to find is there a better way to do it. And I think this is maybe as good an example as you can have. I get a lot of credit for the up-tempo offense and what we've done with Blake and changing from what we did before. But the reality of the story this up-tempo offense and going faster and having the fast plays is all Coach Saban. This was him from the first day I got here, almost every day talking about we need to play faster, we need to be more explosive. We need to run more plays. We need to give defenses more problems. And so really it was what has happened this year with this offense and the numbers and Blake and everything, really are a credit to Coach Saban and what from the first day what he saw going on in college football and said, well, if it's working so well and it gives people so many problems why aren't we doing it? That's where we are today.