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Here's Nick Saban's Main Reason For Rejecting Texas Job Years Ago

by Larry Leo

August 18, 202127 Comments

Here's Nick Saban's Main Reason For Rejecting Texas Job Years Ago

After Mack Brown left Texas football back in 2013, the Longhorns reportedly offered Alabama head coach Nick Saban a $100 million contract. ESPN SEC analyst Paul Finebaum explained Saban’s main reason for rejecting the job during the latest episode of the Saturday Down South podcast...

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“I did a book with Gene Wojciechowski, and we had a nugget in the book that said that Texas boosters had tried to hire Nick Saban, which I think most people knew, but we had a source that said they had offered him more than $100 million and Texas fans acted like they didn’t want Nick Saban,” Finebaum said. “The bottom line is they did want Saban and Saban was offered the job, and he considered it. He said to me and to anybody who would confront him with this, that the reason he didn’t go to Texas — he said this privately, he didn’t say this publicly — was he did not want to have to answer to 10 or 15 different boosters who all felt like they owned the franchise. It was a little of a Jerry Jones complex or a T. Boone Pickens complex in college football in the past.

“That has always haunted Texas. By the way, it also always haunted the University of Alabama until Nick Saban walked in there in 2007 and sat in booster club meeting after booster club meeting and said, ‘Listen. I run this place. You stay the blank out of my way.’”

(The Spun)

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Cheese Grits•33 months

Little Debbie runs Nick Saban

Meauxjeaux•33 months

I always thought he'd end up at Texas - mainly because he is legend status already, but adding 2-3 NCs at at third school would put him in a league noone will ever approach again. Resurrecting a Texas powerhouse would have been insane. Instead all we have is oh, boy, just another Bama NC. Big whoop.

HoustonGumbeauxGuy•33 months

"Listen. I run this place. You stay the blank out of my way." LIKE A MF BOSS.

udtiger•33 months

‘Listen. I run this place. You stay the frick out of my way.’” Lololololololol I believe it

LSU FSU Grad•33 months

Larry and his Bama Brethren really come out strong when given the opportunity to polish some Nicky Knob!

jcaz•33 months

Pretty easy to tell booster to get fricked when you are winning Natty’s left and right. Texas is that scrawny guy at the bodybuilding meet who thinks he has a shot because his dad used to come to the meets.

Thorny•33 months

“That has always haunted Texas. By the way, it also always haunted the University of Alabama until Nick Saban walked in there in 2007 and sat in booster club meeting after booster club meeting and said, ‘Listen. I run this place. You stay the blank out of my way.’” That's the way it was at LSU before Nick showed up here as well. He's one of the very few that can look the boosters in the face and tell them to pound sand. It's also one of the reasons many of the higher-ups at LSU weren't too upset when he left. All of that said, Alabama is a better job than Texas. Always has been, and likely always will be. GEAUX TIGERS!

imjustafatkid•33 months

I thought everyone already knew this.

CrimsonClover•33 months

He had just won a national championship at Alabama. Maybe that's one reason why he didn't go to Texas, but realistically, he never even considered coaching there.

BatonRougeBuckeye•33 months

yes, he did

TD422•33 months

This right here is why Alabama fans are so despised by other fan bases (yeah, you guys win a lot, and that's part of it) - but ironically, your arrogance might only be topped by that of Texas. Do you think CNS is a dumb man? Because only a dumbass wouldn't CONSIDER the job. There was 100 million reasons to do so. But you guys just can't come to terms with the fact that there are other jobs out there that someone would consider leaving Tuscaloosa for... And don't believe for a single moment that when CNS retires, there won't be many vultures encircling that Alabama carcass.

TheBigHurt•33 months

Germans

Tigers4Lyfe•33 months

If he said that stuff to Alabama boosters then why couldn't he have done it to Texas boosters? Something is amiss.

5Wide•33 months

Because he knew Texas boosters would have never listened to him. Like he said, they think they all own the franchise and you don't boss around the owner.

RolltidePA•33 months

He came to Bama at an extremely unique time. We'd slipped to utter irrelevancy and was only getting worse. Even to boosters realized how far we had fallen and Saban came in with all the credentials. The first thing he did was clean house. Mal Moore was key in that happening as well. He was the ultimate insider in the program and was the perfect buffer for the transition. I'm not sure if that would have been possible at any other time in the program and Mal Moore certainly does not get enough credit for the transformation of the program.

lsusteve1•33 months

Because Gump boosters are cuck bitches and Saban is Lord to them.

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EvrybodysAllAmerican•33 months

This is exactly why Texas needed Saban. He was one of the few coaches with the resume to be able to keep the boosters in their place.

LSU FSU Grad•33 months

The reason he didn't go to Texas was because the NCAA and SEC wouldn't turn a blind eye to his activities or let him over sign when no one else is allowed to. Why compete fairly when you don't have to?

Strannix•33 months

Exactly

ShakeandBake•33 months

Is it possible to be anymore of a whiny bitch?

BayouBengal99•33 months

Is it possible to be anymore of a little prick? I bet your woman, sister or cousin is real happy! Speaking of whiny bitch, Saban is the leader of the whiny bitch club.

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