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Celebrating his 62nd birthday, Alabama head coach Nick Saban shows he's a year wiser and on top of his game during Alabama's Thursday football practice, Thursday, October 31, 2013, at the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)

-- Alabama coach

Nick Saban

took a couple of digs Thursday at

that provided alleged details of a January conversation between his agent and two Texas regents, going as far to say it was "a bunch of BS."

Saban, speaking on his weekly radio show at Buffalo Wild Wings in Tuscaloosa, alluded to the story on two occasions, delivering his strongest words in response to a question about the perceived outside distractions his team has faced as it prepares for Saturday's game against LSU.

"When they hear about the coach leaving to go some place else, which is all a bunch of BS, that's clutter," Saban said. "They have to deal with that."

Saban's answers drew a loud chorus of applause from the restaurant's patrons. He paused and pushed forward with his answer.

"The best way to start fast in the game is to be well prepared so that you're confident when you go out there to do the things that I'm talking about," he said. "That's really, really important and then you have to be able to sustain and finish it."

At the beginning of the show, Saban alluded to the story as he praised Thursday's media host, ESPN reporter

Tom Rinaldi

.

"All the things that happen in the media, some of them happened to me this week that really weren't right and not true," Saban said. "I don't know where people get their reports, but it happens. It never happens with guys like this. It never happens with people like this because they have professionalism and they really do things the right way and they don't try to create news all the time.

"They just try to get a good story in terms of what really is happening and I really do appreciate that."

On Tuesday,

that Saban's agent,

Jimmy Sexton

, allegedly told former Texas Regent

Tom Hicks

and current Regent

Wallace Hall

that Texas was the only school Saban would leave Alabama for and that Saban was undergoing "special pressure" at Alabama. The January conversation, obtained by the AP through an open-records request, was recounted in a Sept. 24 e-mail by Hicks.

At his Wednesday press conference, Saban said the alleged details of the conversation were inaccurate.

"No one said anything like that," he said.

Saban directly and indirectly addressed the Texas rumors multiple times since the initial story broke about Sexton's meeting with the regents. He's provided similar answers on all occasions, expressing his happiness with his situation at Alabama and saying he's

to start over some place else. During an ESPN All-Access interview Wednesday, Saban said he was

.

Texas hired a new athletics director Tuesday, as

Steve Patterson

left Arizona State to replace the retiring

DeLoss Dodds

. Texas coach

Mack Brown

has given no indication that he plans to retire after the season and the Longhorns, after losing two games early in the season, have won five straight.