First quit making sorry excuses and tell your players the same. Your beloved Tide purely and simply got beat by THE BETTER TEAM! Get over a loss, which your coach and staff, were not expecting and move forward to 2019. Losing is not the end of your legacy if Saban has anything left in his few remaining seasons.
Tell him to lighten up! He might just enjoy life outside of football and find a long term staff for the remainder of his career in the process.