Saban happy with his hardworking, 'hateful' team

Speaking after Alabama's 10-0 win over LSU, Alabama coach Nick Saban expressed pride in his team for how hard they played and their perseverance in a tough environment Saturday night in Death Valley.

Saban has used two words a lot while talking about this win: resiliency and perseverance

— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) November 6, 2016

Nick Saban: I'm awful proud of the way competed. Their defense played really really well.

— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) November 6, 2016

Saban: “We didn’t score for 3 quarters, but they didn’t score for 4."

— CoachingSearch.com (@coachingsearch) November 6, 2016

Saban also had an interesting way of describing his defense and their effort stopping Leonard Fournette.

Nick Saban: We got some pretty hateful guys around here on defense who are good competitors. When they get challenged, they usually respond.

— Marq Burnett (@Marq_Burnett) November 6, 2016

Those 'hateful guys' are pretty darn good.