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

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Really? Even if they though it meant a guranteed NC trophy for the case?

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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.”

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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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