Nick Saban Obviously Quotations

The Pac-10 obviously did pretty well against the SEC this past week, ... Our players need to be aware of that and know that our league is nationally-known and when we go play places people are anxious to play us.

He is not badly hurt. He told me today that if it were the regular season, he would play in this game, but we are obviously not going to take any chances.

He got picked before we could get him. Somebody else obviously tutored him up.

You'd like to put yourself in a position, if you have a flexibility to do it, to take a particular player that you'd like to get. Obviously if you have multiple draft picks, that gives you a little bit more flexibility. That's not a luxury that we have right now.

Sage obviously did a good job when he was in there. That's something that will certainly be evaluated . . . in terms of who goes where.

I thought it was a very disappointing first half for us, to make some of the mistakes we made and get in a hole. Obviously we need to improve our ability to play in the beginning of games.

We've obviously started our research in terms of what the options are going to be for us. One of the goals that we have is to develop the players we have so somebody can be a starter for our organization in the future, or to bring somebody to the organization that has the potential to be a future starter relative to our situation.

If we don't have an agreement this year, obviously it's going to affect the cap in an adverse way in terms of what's available to spend on players.