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re: Saban turned down $100M in order to stay at Bama
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:12 pm to Gradual_Stroke
Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:12 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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If you think the uptight rubes who run the teasip BOR would ever approve of that insane salary, LOL at you.
Really? Even if they though it meant a guranteed NC trophy for the case? I don't know about that, I mean, you guys have a hella lot of money.. they have more. Somehow I think it's more about the politics or some other weirdness than the actual money.
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Posted on 7/16/14 at 3:14 pm to Jagd Tiger
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guranteed NC trophy
Hard to win an NC starting from scratch, even for Saban. Even harder to do it in the Big FAIL conference
Posted on 7/16/14 at 4:15 pm to Jagd Tiger
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Really? Even if they though it meant a guranteed NC trophy for the case?
Maybe, the BOR is separated from the program.
There was talk in Austin when all this was going on that much of the compensation (I was hearing even bigger numbers) would be under the table (real estate deals and the like) so that the Horns wouldn't be bad guys nationally for blowing up coaching salaries.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:03 pm to Jagd Tiger
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Really? Even if they though it meant a guranteed NC trophy for the case?
We got an answer back from Chip and it turns out the answer is no:
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"We wouldn’t ever skew the salary structure for college coaches like that. Plus, the regents would never approve a $10 million salary for a football coach. Not even Vince Lombardi.”
In fact Chip says the real number was always $7 million:
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I reported several times that the dollar figure discussed among the group of Texas power brokers that wanted Saban was $7 million per year. Not a penny more would be written into any contract, I was told....
No matter how many times I reported the $7 million figure – on Fox Sports Live or on ESPN’s College Football Live or on SportsCenter – it wasn’t nearly as sexy as $10 million for 10 years, totaling $100 million and Saban’s own space station
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