I'm not looking for UT to fire the coach. It's in the program's best interest for him to succeed. That's what I'm hoping for.
In the video, as a follow up question, someone asks if it is bittersweet due to the fact that 'the east is what you guys and a lot of the players talk about all year'. He responds 'you never heard me talk about it, never heard the players talk about it '.
Seems to be about the 4:00 to 4:30 mark of this video:
https://youtu.be/GEt4p4sgU7MWell, going back and listening to it, he does have a bit of an attitude about it, and is definitely defensive. Having said that, his answer is still along the lines of "one game at a time". Which is consistent with everything that he has always said, and in fact what Saban says is the proper approach. That is, do your job in this game, win one at a time, and let the championships and rankings take care of themselves.
That's not the same as saying "we didn't have a goal of winning the SEC East". If you listen to what Butch has said in the past, which is what Saban always says and it's possible that Butch is emulating him, is that you don't talk about outcomes, you talk about what you have to do to win the game you are in.
I can see where the bit of defensiveness he has could rub people the wrong way though, and I think he could have answered the question better.