re: Saban turned down $100M in order to stay at Bama

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Have a REALLY hard time believing anyone would turn down that kind of offer and just re-sign for a 6.9 million extension. The story is either complete bullshite and just a printed version of all the internet gossip or something happened that killed the deal that no one knows. I just have a hard time believing anyone would be able to turn down an offer twice as much as they were getting paid when they were already the highest paid coach in football. That deal would have made him the highest paid coach in the history of sports by a pretty significant margin. That signing bonus alone is more than most coaches entire contract

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If you're as rich as Saban is, enormous bags of cash and staggeringly enormous bags of cash might not be as significant. Granted, I've known -- and still do know -- some very rich people who are always looking to get richer, but these are people who entered their professions solely for that purpose (or inherited it.) Saban seems to love coaching for coaching's sake, so the difference between extremely rich and twice-as-extremely rich isn't likely to be the factor that us peons, who are neither, might think.