September 19th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 8:40 PM ^
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.
September 19th, 2013 at 8:41 PM ^
this is not going to happen
September 19th, 2013 at 8:41 PM ^
If he leaves it's for the league. That's the only place he has something to prove
September 19th, 2013 at 9:08 PM ^
Until they introduce their next head coach and he says, "This is Texas fergodsakes."
September 19th, 2013 at 8:43 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
I heard Jon Gruden was already interviewed.
September 19th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^
It was put in the NCAA rulebook in 2009 that all schools looking for a new head college football coach must have its fanbase and media outlets specuate on hiring Jon Gruden
September 19th, 2013 at 10:59 PM ^
Well, I did hear Dan Patrick say that he know for sure that Gruden has listened to just about every offer he has been rumored to be entertaining.
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.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:10 PM ^
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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.
September 20th, 2013 at 12:01 AM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
OP, at least read the article first.
September 19th, 2013 at 8:56 PM ^
This is a very misleading thread title.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:58 PM ^
I don't think massblue even reads these stories before he starts threads. He started one last week about how Michigan-Notre Dame was the highest rated regular season college football game in ESPN history, which was also clearly not what the article said.
September 19th, 2013 at 10:49 PM ^
He really wants the 2 points for starting a thread.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:01 PM ^
at Alabama, a freaking statue. He is going nowhere. He could make himself Emporer of Alabama and no one would challenge him.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^
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September 20th, 2013 at 2:46 AM ^
This made me laugh out loud. Nicely done.
September 20th, 2013 at 10:13 PM ^
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
September 19th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
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).
September 19th, 2013 at 9:26 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
I don't see any way he leaves Alabama at this point. I think he likes being king. But every time another school contacts him, he probably uses that to get a pay raise.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
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September 19th, 2013 at 9:15 PM ^
Saban is a whore so anything is possible...
September 19th, 2013 at 11:54 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 9:16 PM ^
The thread title sucks.
September 19th, 2013 at 11:14 PM ^
UPDATE!
The thread title still sucks.
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.
September 19th, 2013 at 10:38 PM ^
Why would it be a conflict?
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. ?
September 20th, 2013 at 7:01 AM ^
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.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:40 PM ^
You often hear coaches say that toughest part of being on top is staying on top. Why not make the move, make a shit ton of money and build another program and prove yourself all over again?
September 19th, 2013 at 10:11 PM ^
Why? He's on top of the SEC, which is arguably the best conference in the country. Texas isn't what it used to be. He has a machine running at Alabama and I just don't htikn he's going to leave. I don't think money will be an issue. Whatever is thrown at him, Bama will match it.
September 19th, 2013 at 11:52 PM ^
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September 19th, 2013 at 9:42 PM ^
Don't believe a word he says to deflect this story. He also said he wasn't leaving Miami and LSU.