TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Spring practice is finished for Alabama, and coach Nick Saban is less than satisfied with his team, as usual.

It really wasn't because of those nine turnovers in Saturday's spring game, either. Saban said some Crimson Tide players are "too comfortable with their circumstances," but he notes that he found cause for discontent at spring's end for each of the three national championship teams in the past four years.

Unabashed praise just isn't his spring thing.

"I spoke to a bunch of different alumni groups [Saturday] and they all want me to make a comparison between this year's team and last year's team and the team before that and the team before that," Saban said after the A-Day game. "I wasn't happy with any of those teams at this point.


Bama has more than four months before that opener in the Georgia Dome to get there.

AJ McCarron completed 19 of 30 passes for 223 yards and a 40-yard touchdown to Kenny Bell but also was intercepted twice before an announced crowd of 78,315. McCarron's White team won 17-14 against the Crimson, led by the first-team defense.


"The biggest thing that I was concerned about is how would the team go out there," he said. "What would be their energy, their enthusiasm and their attention to detail. Mental intensity. I don't think that there were enough guys that answered that question in a positive way to my liking. But I'm never satisfied."

T.J. Yeldon had 69 yards rushing, 60 receiving and scored the winning touchdown on a 7-yard run with 1:04 left to earn MVP honors of the spring game for the second consecutive year. The 1,000-yard rusher is set to replace potential first-round NFL draft pick Eddie Lacy.



It's unclear what the menu would be for a draw.



McCarron cautions against making too much of those mistakes.

"It's just like playing in an all-star game," he said. "You don't get in a rhythm. It's not a real game, but it's fun. It's fun to go out there and try to make plays happen and get to do some trick plays and stuff."


"AJ almost caught me," Sunseri said. "I never would have heard the end of that."


"We're trying to be an unbelievable team," Sunseri said. "With coach Saban there, he's definitely going to let us know when we mess up. That's what we need. We've got a great leader. We've got a great quarterback. And we've got a lot of guys that are surrounding him trying to do something special."