<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Hey Texas <a href="http://t.co/uI9fpVyf0B" title="http://twitter.com/BrianMFloyd/status/410503105436860416/photo/1">pic.twitter.com/uI9fpVyf0B</a></p>— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianMFloyd/status/411700928434421760" data-datetime="2013-12-14T03:35:25+00:00">December 14, 2013</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I would like to thank all of the excellent well connected posters in this thread whose sources obviously were not made up.
I agree with this. Sounds like they are saying all the right things to make this look completely like Mack's idea when he steps down as an effort for him to save face and prevent the perception that he was pushed out. I never thought Saban would come to UT but I do wonder if he was considering the possibility of coming to UT if Mack decided to step down. When Mack did not step down yesterday he simply said, "OK, enough is enough" and excepted the Alabama extension.
Not sure why all of the Chip Brown hate. He absolutely nailed the DeLoss thing before anyone else even had a sniff of what was going on. Pac 12 would have loved to have had UT and OU with out question and they absolutely would have gone but not with out their instate counterparts TT and OSU. Pac 12 did not want those schools. Chip is not an A&M insider, he simple was stating what he believed. Chip was not claiming that Texas was going to land Saban. As a matter of fact when all these other insiders were saying that UT had a 10 million + 1% of LHN, Chip was the one that tweeted he had not heard that. Regardless when Mack steps down, it doesn't matter to me as long as he steps down.
I watched a bit of the banquet on LHN -- the whole thing sounded like a eulogy for Mack. Mack didn't meet with media, but gave a quote just to Holly Rowe which didn't sound like everything was decided.. I think he's coaching the bowl game. Maybe he's coaching for his job in that game -- then again, I thought he was coaching for his job vs. Baylor. If you still want to believe, the next set of guys on the wishlist if you believe the rumors (Harbaughs, Tomlin, Jimbo Fisher, Malzahn) wouldn't be available till January anyway, so stepping away after a bowl game wouldn't be awful.
Because he regularly overstates his position and is constantly wrong. Being right here and there doesn't make that OK. Then he shouldn't report that it's a done deal. Then he shouldn't report it as fact. He should have said "in my opinion", instead of: Chip Brown @ChipBrownOB 8/9 There is no truth to reports that Texas A&M will join the SEC in the spring of 2012. None. #A&M #Aggies #big12 #cfb Chip Brown @ChipBrownOB 8/9 For all the Aggies wondering who my sources are on this, they are sources at the highest level of your school. His "sources" are regularly wrong. Even if his sources are 50% right, it means none of his info has any value because you can't believe anything until it's official, which makes his reporting irrelevant. Here's more fun from Chip Brown: Chip Brown @ChipBrownOB #Texas will announce Teryl Austin as its new defensive coordinator, www.Orangebloods.com has learned. #longhorns #hookem #ut 1:48 PM - 14 Dec 2010 Chip Brown @ChipBrownOB As reported by Orangebloods.com since Monday, #UT DB coach Jerry Gray staying at Texas/not going to Tenn Titans. Never interviewed. #hookem 1:20 PM - 10 Feb 2011 Chip Brown @ChipBrownOB I'm told Mike Sherman - and his $8 million buyout - will be back at Texas A&M next season. 7:33 AM - 1 Dec 2011 (Sherman fired 24 hours later) It's an endless parade of reporting things as fact that are completely wrong.
Nick Saban refutes Texas speculation Nick Saban, who agreed to a long-term extension Friday to remain the coach at Alabama, said Saturday that he never had any intentions of going to Texas. Saban said his commitment has and will continue to be to Alabama and that the speculation about potentially replacing his friend, Mack Brown, at Texas was unfair to everybody involved. "The way this sort of got spun, it was a little bit more like, 'OK, he got a new contract at Alabama, so he's going to stay at Alabama instead of going to Texas,'" Saban told ESPN.com on Saturday. "I never considered going to Texas. That wasn't even a conversation. "I knew that if Mack stepped down, there would probably be an opportunity, but it wasn't something I was interested in doing, not at this stage in my career." "We've been trying to do this thing with Alabama all the way back into the season," Saban said. "It really wasn't about the contract. It was about staying at Alabama, wanting to be at Alabama, wanting to continue to do good things for Alabama and our commitment to the players here, the university and the community." While Brown's future with Texas remains unclear, Saban said the hardest part for him last week was seeing how the situation took on a life of its own, with his name being linked to a job that wasn't even available. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mack Brown," Saban said. "Mack Brown is the coach at Texas. He deserves the right, based on his body of work, to be able to leave the program the way he wants to leave the program. It wasn't fair to him or to me to be speculating about this job, which I haven't talked to anybody there about. "Really, the whole thing from my perspective stunk, but there wasn't a hell of a lot I could do about it." Saban, who has won three of the last four national championships, hopes any chatter about leaving Alabama for another coaching job will at last cease. "I don't want to go someplace else," Saban said. "I don't know how many times I can say that. "Maybe this will be what the Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay thing was to the NFL the last couple of years. That kind of ended the pro speculation. Maybe this will end the college speculation. This is where I'm going to finish my coaching career."
It's pathetic. But, given Oregon lite demolished us just a couple weeks ago, I'm not really excited about what the real thing can do. I fully expect them to put Mack out of his misery.
Don't really see the humor here? Whether that's true or not (I bet there was a conversation, even if it was just for leverage purposes), I think the fact that there was this much buzz about Saban coming to Texas pretty much validates the fact that we can hire the best of the best. So, no worries...we will not be coming after Rice football coach David Baliff. I had to look that up, BTW.
Huh? No it does not at all. Not that I doubt Texas can pull a top notch coach, but this saga does not "validate" that at all. Texas got played by Jimmie Sexton and that's really all that happened.
I'm sad about whiffing on Saban, but the real win would be getting Mack out. That's what this whole thing was originally about, and then the Saban rumors kicked in. We wanted Mack out way before those rumors started.
I can understand why people hate UT, not that I hate UT. Delusion and arrogance are pervasive amongst the fan base...y'all are like Laker fans during the whole Dwight Howard fiasco. Yes, UT will probably get a good coach, but to see this Saban ordeal as validation is crazy.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>How Mack Brown and Bill Powers thwarted a 2nd attempt by UT regents and billionaires to hire Nick Saban. ... <a href="http://t.co/mURZH3Q2Sd">http://t.co/mURZH3Q2Sd</a></p>— Chip Brown (@ChipBrownOB) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB/statuses/411965699197001728">December 14, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I've said all along that I didn't think Saban was coming here, but I think you'd have to be pretty deep in denial to not see that there was some smoke to that fire. If Texas was in fact "played," then that means there were conversations between Saban/Sexton and Texas, and Saban is lying. In your scenario, Alabama was worried enough about Texas to give the guy a $2+mm raise. That's validation.
Jimmy Sexton no doubt had discussions with Texas. They were clearly just a ploy to get Saban and himself a raise. That much is obvious at this point. That's what a good agent does; they take advantage of an opportunity to their financial prospects. Texas had interest in Saban, Sexton recognized this, he milked Texas and Alabama for as much money as possible, and Saban stayed at the elite program that is Alabama and got more money out of it. Nothing out of the ordinary.
