Also on Monday, Saban strongly refuted reports that said he had been offered the coaching job at the University of Alabama after the school fired Mike Shula.
"Don't care to be, don't want to be," Saban said. "I have a job to do here. My focus is on our players, this team, us getting better. I'm not interested in any other circumstances or situations any other place else. Mike Shula is a good guy, a friend. I hate to see anybody not be able to maintain... I think he's done a good job there and should have been given an opportunity to stay there.
"It's always flattering to be considered for anything. I have a lot of respect for these things but this has been the case for years. When I was in college it was always about coming to the pros. This is the challenge I wanted. I had a good college job so why would I have left that if I was going to be interested in other college jobs? I took this as a challenge and we certainly haven't seen this through and gotten where we wanted to go and finished the job here so why would I be interested in something else?
"Nobody's contacted me. I haven't talked to anybody about anything. I wouldn't talk to anybody about anything regardless of that."