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re: Saban turned down $100M in order to stay at Bama
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:05 pm to HempHead
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:05 pm to HempHead
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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Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:06 pm to lsufball19
If you think the uptight rubes who run the teasip BOR would ever approve of that insane salary, LOL at you. 
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:09 pm to lsufball19
Im leaning on rumor. Hard to believe anyone was offered that much
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:19 pm to lsufball19
You are disregarding the effect that the BS negative reporting of his leaving Miami had on him and his family.
I was all over this, I stated that IMHO, Mrs Saban wanted to live in Austin over Tuscaloosa and Saban was ok with it as long as tge Texas folks could keep it under wraps until the end of the season.
Then word leaked out that Mrs Saban was looking at houses in Austin, and all shyt broke lose.
Saban loses a game he could have won with a FG kick from the 10 yard line, something smelled fishy there to me, it just didn't add up.
Then when Mack Brown learned Saban was prett much the reason he was being forced out he balked on his retirement.
That is when Nick changed directions and decided to stay at Bama.
The 7 million a year was then agreed on and IMHO Saban will retire at Bama in about 7 years.
I don't see him coaching past 70.
I was all over this, I stated that IMHO, Mrs Saban wanted to live in Austin over Tuscaloosa and Saban was ok with it as long as tge Texas folks could keep it under wraps until the end of the season.
Then word leaked out that Mrs Saban was looking at houses in Austin, and all shyt broke lose.
Saban loses a game he could have won with a FG kick from the 10 yard line, something smelled fishy there to me, it just didn't add up.
Then when Mack Brown learned Saban was prett much the reason he was being forced out he balked on his retirement.
That is when Nick changed directions and decided to stay at Bama.
The 7 million a year was then agreed on and IMHO Saban will retire at Bama in about 7 years.
I don't see him coaching past 70.
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:27 pm to lsufball19
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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
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.
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