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UT Football Thread

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by Rockets1616, Aug 17, 2011.

  1. Major

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  2. astros99

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    Mackbrown-texasfootball redirects to texassports.. Is this new? Or has it always been like that?
     
  3. tinman

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    People who don't make 5 mill a year make that drive
     
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    i'm hearing from my sources that it's a done deal. the paperwork is done.
     
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    rumor I just read said 115m/10yrs for saban. Also the BOR holding an emergency meeting to discuss Powers' employment. Seems to me like they are making a power play to keep powers from getting in the way
     
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    Pretty recent
     
  8. astros99

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    11.5 mil/year is crazy. props to his agent if he really pulled that off. 7-10 sounds more reasonable
     
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    Someone made this

    Nicksaban-texasfootball.com
     
  10. astros99

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    That one has been around for a while
     
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    well, considering that the football program generates 100mil in revenue, investing 6mil/yr to make it stable as well as generate interest in LHN then I think it's pretty reasonable
     
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    Wow, UT is guaranteed to win at least 2 national titles now in the next handful of years. Nobody can compete with Saban. Saban + Texas' hotbed of recruits in Austin? Yeah this is going to be crazy.
     
  13. Major

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    Lots of people can compete with Saban. Of his 4 national titles, he had a loss in 3 of them. His defenses struggle against spread offenses, and he's gotten lucky to avoid spread teams in his title years. He seems like a coach built for the SEC - I wouldn't be surprised to see him have less success in the Big12.

    (that said, I still doubt any of this is true. I'd still be shocked if Saban ends up at Texas.)
     
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    This is just silly...
     
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    yeah Saban sucks, don't want him:rolleyes:

    but on a realistic note, I would think that once we have a vacancy (i've read rumors indicating tues-thur as the timeframe) things will move very fast. There's so much smoke right now. This week will be VERY interesting for Texas football whether we get Saban (I think we do) or not
     
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    Where was everyone that was laughing at UT for even thinking that we were somehow going to get Saban? I'm feeling it. You are all about to eat major crow.

    MONEY TALKS BABY.
     
  17. Major

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    There's a pretty wide gap between "not as successful as Alabama" and "sucks".
     
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    i'll believe it when it happens.
     
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    No mention of Vince Lombardi or Tom Landry?
     
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    No, only Joe Gibbs, Mike Ditka, and John Madden.
     

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