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Just plain wrong: 7 folks that were wrong on Saban heading to Texas
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:10 am
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:10 am
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7. The guy who paged Saban at the Texas airport
Man, if this doesn't make you want to think of a good prank. A guy got an oblivious airport employee to page Nick Saban over the airport loudspeakers in Austin, Texas. Twitter blew up, even though Saban was in Ohio, recruiting for Alabama.
6. ESPN Austin and friends
According to Michael Pelech, Alex Loeb said that Terry was house-hunting in Austin, Texas. Loeb, with the Longhorn Network, works for ESPN Austin. Among the retweets for the unsubstantiated report? Local TV, and SB Nation reporter Wescott Eberts.
5. Fort Worth Star Telegram
Texas Christian University beat writer Stefan Stevenson also sent out a tweet that made heads spin. The reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram used the vague term "sources" and reported something he heard that was unconfirmed. The inaccurate report was retweeted almost 2,000 times.
4. KWTV
This one propelled its tweeter into the talk radio circuit. A director for KWTV in Oklahoma City, Dean Blevins also quoted an unnamed source saying that Saban's trip to the Lone Star State was a done deal and that the money was lucrative. Not so much. A reply to the tweet asked if 1 percent of the Longhorn Network was $50 and a DVR..
3. InsideTexas
The fan website where people write with pen names was instrumental in blowing the rumor way up. Priding themselves as "what's really going on" at Texas, InsideTexas said Saban was "100 percent" going to head west. With writers like "Jesus Shuttlesworth" who wouldn't have trusted them? 10,000 people did, apparently.
2. Orangebloods
While he was supporting Alabama players receiving awards and trying to deal with day-to-day life, Saban also apparently had time to play a real-life version of The SIMS with a mock would-be staff at Texas, per Yahoo Sports radio host and Texas fan-site orangebloods.com owner Geoff Ketchum.
1. The Football Brainiacs
These guys were cited thousands of times and the report was picked up by so many fan blogs such as FanSided that it got cited on several local television stories. "Two very good sources" told "The Football Brainiacs" that Saban to Texas was in the books. "We would not have run this unless we trusted the sources," they wrote. Trust is such a tricky part of human relationships, isn't it?
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Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:12 am to Bench McElroy
me
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:13 am to Bench McElroy
8. TheDoc
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:13 am to Bench McElroy
8. Every LSU fan alive
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:19 am to Bench McElroy
Eh, I think UT really was trying to force Mack out to hire Saban and they couldn't get it done.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:21 am to Bench McElroy
he still gone
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:22 am to Golfer
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Eh, I think UT really was trying to force Mack out to hire Saban and they couldn't get it done.
Personally, I think UT thought they had Saban in the bag, was told that there wasn't a frick in the world to give, had to keep Mack and absorb the egg through their faces.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:24 am to cyde
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Personally, I think UT thought they had Saban in the bag, was told that there wasn't a frick in the world to give, had to keep Mack and absorb the egg through their faces.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:24 am to cyde
Yea. I think they just go ahead of themselves and word got out. If the story isn't broken until right near the banquet. Perhaps it's a different story. But brown wasn't going down easy and UT thought he'd just roll over and Saban would waltz in. Egos got in the way.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:25 am to pivey14
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Every LSU fan alive
Wrong.
And the Austin airport prank is comedy gold.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:27 am to BrerTiger
Mack Brown and the admistration at Ut screwed this up. They deserve each other. 
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:28 am to BrerTiger
It's the narrative they want, facts are secondary.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:30 am to Golfer
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Eh, I think UT really was trying to force Mack out to hire Saban and they couldn't get it done.
Or they couldn't get Saban done, and they aborted their attempt to force Mack out. If the people that really made decisions at UT wanted Mack out and they could really have Saban then he'd be gone.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:30 am to Golfer
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Yea. I think they just go ahead of themselves and word got out. If the story isn't broken until right near the banquet. Perhaps it's a different story. But brown wasn't going down easy and UT thought he'd just roll over and Saban would waltz in. Egos got in the way.
Honestly, I think Brown was the key to everything, and all he did was "go out recruiting" with that same smug smile on his butter teeth.
He's the real winner in all of this. Whether it was his intention or not, UT got majorly embarrassed with all this. Now, all we have to do is wait for the results of all those nasty lawsuits Texas is fighting.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:33 am to CollegeFBRules
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It's the narrative they want, facts are secondary.
I've already spoken the truth about that 'narrative'.
LSU fans are about as mad right now as Bama fans were 24 hours ago. That is to say, not very.
Sure, y'all wanted him gone. After all, the melt would have possibly been nice, and we'd get to feel a bit of what y'all felt.
In the end, though, if he didn't leave, it wouldn't be the end of the world.
And honestly, most of us didn't really think he'd be going, and the vast majority of y'all didn't either.
Now we all get to laugh at Texas's expense. And honestly, they fricking deserve it.
This post was edited on 12/14/13 at 12:34 am
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:45 am to Bench McElroy
You mad bro? 
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:48 am to cyde
Yeah...I'm pretty sure the plan was to get rid of Mack Brown and hire Saban. Problem was...Saban showed little to no interest in the job and thus Texas was forced to keep Brown because there was no way in hell they were going to get anyone better.
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:58 am to RollTide1987
I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle.
Very few AD's in the country are going to keep their current coach if CNS wants the job. All this shite about CMB putting his foot down is just that: bullshite. If UT let CMB stay when CNS was willing to sign, they should be fired kiffin style.
The timing of CNS re-signing is interesting. Just as the UT clusterfrick was starting to show, Saban signs his extension.
I think Saban had a little interest, at least a passing interest, but as the debacle wore on he saw just how much of a clusterfrick UT is. Saban would need to be the man with the plan and it became evident he would have to clean house way too much to make it worth his while. He has a good thing going on at Alabama and he would not have the control he wants/needs for this process for god knows how long at UT.
Essentially, I don't think Texas was able/willing to fork over enough dough to convince CNS to put out their grease fire.
Alabama wouldn't have given Saban a 2m/year raise if they weren't at least a little worried.
Very few AD's in the country are going to keep their current coach if CNS wants the job. All this shite about CMB putting his foot down is just that: bullshite. If UT let CMB stay when CNS was willing to sign, they should be fired kiffin style.
The timing of CNS re-signing is interesting. Just as the UT clusterfrick was starting to show, Saban signs his extension.
I think Saban had a little interest, at least a passing interest, but as the debacle wore on he saw just how much of a clusterfrick UT is. Saban would need to be the man with the plan and it became evident he would have to clean house way too much to make it worth his while. He has a good thing going on at Alabama and he would not have the control he wants/needs for this process for god knows how long at UT.
Essentially, I don't think Texas was able/willing to fork over enough dough to convince CNS to put out their grease fire.
Alabama wouldn't have given Saban a 2m/year raise if they weren't at least a little worried.
This post was edited on 12/14/13 at 1:00 am
Posted on 12/14/13 at 12:59 am to cyde
Posted on 12/14/13 at 2:23 am to cyde
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LSU fans are about as mad right now as Bama fans were 24 hours ago. That is to say, not very. Sure, y'all wanted him gone. After all, the melt would have possibly been nice, and we'd get to feel a bit of what y'all felt. In the end, though, if he didn't leave, it wouldn't be the end of the world. And honestly, most of us didn't really think he'd be going, and the vast majority of y'all didn't either. Now we all get to laugh at Texas's expense. And honestly, they fricking deserve it.
Pretty much my exact thoughts as well
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