Well it's less than 2 weeks away so I will go ahead & start up The Official CFB Thread for 2013. Lots to talk about. Wait for it. Wait for it. The Over rated State University will play in The BCS NAT CHAMP. There. I said it. It's happening. Time to move on.
"Do your job. Do your job. Be a part. You do those things, we enjoy victory @ the end. As a team."
All the nonsense about counting LSU out this year will ultimately make them The Most under rated team this year. Mett will throw for 3,600-3,800 yards, 36 TDs, & 8 picks.
Why would Nick Saban leave Alabama? Just dollars? It seems like he would be leaving a very good situation player and teamwise for a very questionable one.
Lets just say you are Mrs. Saban. Your hubby takes home a couple of million a year. The only mall in T-Town doesn't even have a Dillards much less anything upscale. There is zero upscale shopping and not much better one hour away in B'ham. There is no fine dining in T-Town but great BBQ where the only sides is white bread. For any real upscale shopping or dining, one would have to travel to Atlanta. Whereas, Austin is not only a dynamic town on the edges of the hill country, they have all the upscale shopping and fine dining anyone would want.
Questionable? Heck he will be able to get almost every top recruit in TX. AND that's a lot of good players. and have his bad debts paid for. Which I understand are very significant. He is in for serveral million on a bankrupt Perkin's Row development in Baton Rouge. I know for a fact the bank is asking for there money.
Not us we wouldnt take the loan. They tried to finance with us but the apprasial numbers didnt add up is what I was told. My current boss was with the lending bank back then and was warned by our realestate group this was not a sound deal. The judge just allowed the bank to take the property back. Last I heard the cash call to Saban was around 5 mil on that one property.
bobby,
i think i can speak for mg in saying that the two of us are willing to kick in a fin each to satisfy the loan call. now all we need is 999,998 more bama fans to do the same and it's an even $5 mil! no prob!;-)
saban already gets every player he really wants from texas.
Lemme see if I can follow the logic from the let's-lasso-a-savior crowd: Saban goes to Tejas and his debts - and trespasses against Colt - are forgiven, and 'Bama, in return for letting him go, gets Mack and his big brother Watson as co-head coaches, with their salaries over the next 10 years paid in full by revenue from ShamWow! commercials (for absorbing all those Crimson Tide tears) airing on the Longhorn Network. Yeah, that computes.
Old Cajun saying, "Owe the bank a little money that you can't repay and you are in trouble. Owe the bank a lot of money that you can't repay and the bank is in trouble" ;-)
I dont understand all the butthurt Longhorn frat boys on the UT fan boards...so we didnt Saban, deal with it, move on, MB might have escaped the executioners blade this weekend, but if Oregon does to us what they are capable of, he may not see Valentines Day with the Horns
I dont understand all the butthurt Longhorn frat boys on the UT fan boards...so we didnt Saban, deal with it, move on, MB might have escaped the executioners blade this weekend, but if Oregon does to us what they are capable of, he may not see Valentines Day with the Horns
Saban is just like John pointed out - the hole he leaves is only as big as the void in the pail of water when his hand is gone . There are a lot of good coaches out there more than willing to work for TX bucks.
Patterson's comment "I'm looking forward to working with Mack for years to come" is a platitude. A bad game in the bowl & he is retiring, if there is a bookie around I'll bet that at the right odds . Health reasons!!!!!!!!!!!
"Behoofs" 'em - being Tejas - to give Mack a swan song season and let him retire at the end of it. Too ugly both politically and pragmatically right now for anything else. Unless a wild card like Chuckie Gruden comes calling. What's out there now for Tejas to succeed Mack reminds me of a joke I heard the other day: Why did the cowboy get a dachshund? 'Cause he wanted to get a long little doggie."
There is a term that UT has always used when they relieve a HC of a program, especially the football program....reassigned....Texas is a state institution, they do not like paying severance pay, Instead they will reassign that coach to other responsibilities with the stipulation that they can still receive their salary until they take a similar job, They did it with Akers, McWilliams, and Mackovic..in fact with Mackovic his "job" was to secure a place for a UT golf course...That project was already well on its way so JM hung out at Barton Creek CC about 4 days a week where myself and fellow teammates would serve him lunch/dinner..When he took the Arizona U job the payments from UT stopped...
Mack B will eventually be reassigned within the athletic dept. just like former AD Dodds was earlier this summer. he will be given some lofty title as an advisor, but its just to have a category so the monthly check gets debited to the correct account...
Texas only has ONE commitment currently signed in this recruiting class, granted its a hot shot QB from a known state powerhouse, but there was a reason MB was recruiting in Fla. earlier in the week, he is trying desperately to save his job
Teacher: ok class, at this moment in time it appears nick saban has made the decision to remain head football coach at the university of alabama. students, if this is in fact coach saban's decision, what have we learned?
Teacher: franco in the front row, you have your hand up. franco: teacher, i learned the shopping in tuscaloosa, alabama is better than i thought! i also learned mrs. saban likes ribs and white bread!
Teacher: ok john you're next. john: teacher, it is just like i thought. the county's recent most sucessful coach is hesitant to walk away from a good group of players and a strong recruiting class.
Teacher: bon, you have had your hand up for a while. you are next. bon: teacher, it was flattering to hear everyone in sports media write and talk about the texas job being the "best in the country" all week long! i learned you can't always believe what you read!
Teacher: bobby yours is the last hand up. what did you learn? bobby: i learned that anyone can learn at any age! teacher, this proves even a 62 year old dumbass who has made $40 million in bad decisions recently can eventually stop scewing up!
Mack Brown will resign as coach of Texas on Saturday, sources close to the situation told the Longhorn Network. Brown has informed his team he will resign, sources said. Brown will stay to coach the Longhorns' bowl game.
Mack Brown will resign as coach of Texas on Saturday, sources close to the situation told the Longhorn Network. Brown has informed his team he will resign, sources said. Brown will stay to coach the Longhorns' bowl game after which he is expected to introduce his handpicked successor, and older brother, Watson Brown.
Wow I go to work,come home, turn on ESPN and they are flashing the story that Mack Brown resigned, and to think I was going to give him the bowl game and maybe Valentines Day, and he didnt even make it to the 10 o'clock news
For nearly an entire decade, from 2001-09, Texas never won fewer than 10 games.
It claimed one national title ('05), played for another ('09) and won two other BCS bowls (the Rose in '04, the Fiesta in '08).
The Longhorns finished in the top six of the polls in six of nine seasons.
Your stats dont tell the whole story: SIX of those years he had Vince Young or Colt McCoy at QB, since McCoy's departure the last 4 years have been abysmal and in his 16 year tenure he only won the conference title TWICE, One NC win and one loss, it was time for a change
Considering Texas recruiting was always in the Top 5 in the nation his teams were big underachievers
Bob Stoops at Oklahoma owned him, while Texas feasted on the Kansas and Iowa States of the Big 12
Jim Harbaugh?... C'mon Bon lol.
Not sure why fans keep spreading that name around.
He's shut that down a few times here recently in interviews.
In his 1st year (13-3)he takes the 49ers to the play-offs.
In his 2ndyear (13-5-1)he led the 49ers to the play-offs/Superbowl.
Now in his 3rd year (9-4)he's likely headed BACK to the play-offs.
...in the NFL he's 50-12-1.
.....but he quits the NFL/49ers
to attempt to rebuild a College Football Program?....uh no.
That list came from ESPN not me....my choices were Peterson(new HC at UW) and Jim Mora Jr (said he was staying at UCLA when UW job opened)...I dont have any inside sources on the goings on, my source is now the HC at Boise State
according to Rivals he committed in April to UT, but if he wants to go let him, just like Ricky Seals Jones last year, these kids are working for the best"deal" they can get...its all fair until National Signing Day in Feb..
I would give Vandy's coach an interview. Franklin has done a helluva job there.
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