Saban agrees to extension at Alabama, per Herbstriet, so take it with a grain of salt

Submitted by winterblue75 on
@KirkHerbstreit: Breaking News....Nick Saban has agreed to a multi year contract extension to STAY at Alabama! Details to come out soon!!

UMgradMSUdad

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.

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MaizeAndBlueWahoo

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.

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Ty Butterfield

December 13th, 2013 at 9:11 PM ^

I was skeptical that Saban would go to Texas. He has everything humming with Bama. They simply reload every year.

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RickAndScott

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.

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backslash321

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.

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LSAClassOf2000

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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MGoBlueChip

December 14th, 2013 at 7:34 AM ^

No 1, it's Herbstreit, so ya....No 2, Herbstreit works for ESPN who wants nothing more than SEC Domination and probably set this news out there to help Alabama with recruits, etc. My own conspiracy theory.

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