December 13th, 2013 at 8:43 PM ^
Herbie's always right about these things... right???
December 13th, 2013 at 8:47 PM ^
Sooooo does this mean Les Miles just got hired at Michigan?! I was just warming up to Hoke... bummer
December 13th, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
December 13th, 2013 at 8:47 PM ^
One of the perks is a new house in Austin, TX.
December 13th, 2013 at 8:52 PM ^
Maybe the greatest .gif in the history of college football!
December 13th, 2013 at 8:54 PM ^
< Texas babes
December 13th, 2013 at 9:06 PM ^
Like, plural?
December 13th, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
Yes please.
December 13th, 2013 at 8:54 PM ^
What an effing tire fire Texas seems to be right now.
December 13th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
Inability to lure Nick Saban away from Alabama doesn't really constitute a tire fire.
December 13th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
Yeah, I didn't really fill in the gap. I agree, with you on Saban, but the whole Mack Brown affair seems so bizarre. Is he getting fired? Forced into retirement? Will he coach the team tomorrow, let alone next week or the bowl game or next season? He's kind of just left hanging with all these rumors swirling about his status and Saban being wooed to replace him.
December 14th, 2013 at 10:02 AM ^
Truth is, I always felt the Saban-to-Texas stuff began with obnoxiously hubristic Texas fans acting like, we're tired of Mack Brown and we can just get Nick Saban to replace him because we're Texas and of course he'll come here if we ask. And the media turned that into actual rumors. Saban gave them credence by allowing his people to insinuate that he'd go there, but until then there was nothing to it.
As for Brown's supposed retirement, who the hell knows what the so-called sources were on that one. Somebody thought they knew something, I guess.
December 13th, 2013 at 8:59 PM ^
I was always more intrigued by the idea that one writer threw out that Texas was absolutely going to talk to Jim Harbaugh.
December 13th, 2013 at 9:42 PM ^
Herbstreit was the one who threw the idea out there about Harbaugh to Texas. He did explicitly said he had no source and was his own idea he was putting out.
December 13th, 2013 at 9:54 PM ^
My sourceless source was much more low key than Herbstreit. I see this is rising up the ranks.
This is all a bunch of smoke screens until UT decides to go for the gold and get the best coach of the decade, Pete Carroll.
December 14th, 2013 at 7:02 AM ^
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December 13th, 2013 at 9:27 PM ^
Not like this sort of thing hasn't happened with Saban before...
December 13th, 2013 at 9:11 PM ^
December 13th, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^
Dollar bills y'all
December 13th, 2013 at 10:06 PM ^
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December 13th, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
So, in other words, Saban is headed to Texas?
December 13th, 2013 at 9:33 PM ^
UA_Athletics
Nick Saban and The University of Alabama have concluded a long-term agreement to keep him as head coach of the Tide. More details to follow.
December 13th, 2013 at 9:36 PM ^
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December 13th, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
December 13th, 2013 at 9:54 PM ^
Try again next year?
December 13th, 2013 at 10:06 PM ^
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December 13th, 2013 at 10:08 PM ^
But has he actually SIGNED the extension??
December 13th, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
December 13th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^
Is this the first thing Herbstreit has reported on since the Miles/Michigan fiasco? I don't remember him every reporting anything before or since. Outside of that one incident and I guess this one, he's always been just a pundit.
December 13th, 2013 at 11:05 PM ^
He can still take another job. All the extension does is make hime more money. He is leaving. He is a serial competitor. He mauy not be going to UT but the Houston Texans and Washington Bravehearts have to be appealing. At 62, you are probably tired of recruiting. Money talks, BS takes a trip down the street on the uneven pavement.
December 13th, 2013 at 11:23 PM ^
as I imagine he makes another $1-2 million per year now if true
December 13th, 2013 at 11:25 PM ^
Les Miles 101: Managing Contract Renegotiations and Turf Grass in Collegiate Football Coaching
December 13th, 2013 at 11:59 PM ^
This is just a leveraging tactic. Now Texas will panic and the real checkbooks will come out.
December 14th, 2013 at 12:11 AM ^
Here's the NBC Sports article on the agreement - (LINK)
Supposedly, it will be worth between $7 and $7.5 million a year, so anything between about a 20% to 28% increase in his current play depending. In other articles, Alabama people supposedly said they were totally willing to pay him basically whatever too, so this might qualify. If the supposed interest from Texas factored into the raise, I cannot say that I would be shocked.
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