HelloHeisman91

September 19th, 2013 at 8:41 PM ^

This would be a pure money grab by Saban I am wouldn't blame him.  The article I just read on ESPN says that contact was made right after the title game last year so I can't imagine Mack is going to be there next year.  I bet Texas throws 10 million a year at him and Saban takes it.  

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Bryan

September 19th, 2013 at 8:41 PM ^

Texas is a step down at this point. You really can't argue the facilities are better. Plus, he coaches in the best conference. The Texas job isn't what it used to be

If he leaves it's for the league. That's the only place he has something to prove

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Eastside Maize

September 19th, 2013 at 8:43 PM ^

Might wanna be the first Head Coach to win National championships at 3 different schools. A state with a fertile recruiting ground, his own network and a wagon load of money might entice Saban.

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MaizenBlue93

September 19th, 2013 at 8:47 PM ^

That'd be so stupid to leave Alabama, he has an empire recruting wise, and will go down as the best college football coach ever. If he goes to Texas he's going into a much worse division of college football, and is inheriting players no where near as good as his players that he has right now. Leaving for Texas could only have negative results.

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WolverineInTexas

September 20th, 2013 at 12:17 AM ^

If Saban went to UT, Texas would be thee place to go. They already pull in a lot of great kids in-state. These kids grow up dreaming about playing at Texas. However, in recent years Texas A&M has stolen a ton of UT's thunder. But if Saban were to go to Texas all these instate kids would be drawn to Austin like a magnet.

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preed1

September 19th, 2013 at 8:52 PM ^

It would be like if MIchael Jordan would come out of retirement and play for a team that changed their name to somthing goofy like the Wizzards or somthing.

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gwkrlghl

September 19th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^

He would be immediately successful recruiting and would no doubt win games. They have the pockets to pay him $10 million a year and no doubt they'd pay it if they could get him

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Jaysin1414

September 19th, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^

On ESPN at the moment they're talking about this. One of the commentators (bald guy, can't remember his name) seems to think that Jerry Jones is going to open up his wallet and see if Saban can breathe life into the Cowboys. Granted, it's just some ESPN dude filling dead air, but that seems to me to be his more likely route out of 'Bama if he were to consider leaving (which he probably won't).

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FrankMurphy

September 19th, 2013 at 9:22 PM ^

Saban isn't leaving 'Bama unless it's to give the NFL another shot (and I don't even see that happening). It's true that he's not the most loyal guy in the world, but at 62, he's past the age to be making lateral moves just for the hell of it. 

The story is a lot more interesting for the insight it gives into the situation at Texas. Texas has a reverse Bobby Lowder problem. My sense is that the administration at UT wants to move on from Mack Brown, but their biggest booster, billionaire trial attorney Joe Jamail, also happens to be Brown's personal lawyer and close friend (as an aside, that's gotta be some kind of conflict of interest). If the AD pressures Brown to resign, Jamail will not only close his checkbook, he'll sue the school.  And Brown has shown no signs of wanting to retire anytime soon, so Texas has got a problem on their hands.  

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htownwolverine

September 19th, 2013 at 9:29 PM ^

Deloss Dodds (current AD) is retiring at the end of the year. Mack becomes the new AD, keeps his fundraising clout at Texas. A new coach will be hired, but whom?

1. Saban

2. Art Briles

3. ?

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GoBlue_55

September 19th, 2013 at 9:33 PM ^

I don't see it. Alabama is on top. Sure, he loves to prove himself and build something. I just can't imagine he would leave Alabama. This is all probably being pushed from his agent to get a large contract extension that has never been seen in the college coaching profession.

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