Details leaking.. Saban to make over $7 million

Nick Saban is staying at the University of Alabama, just like he said all along. Saban reached an agreement Friday that is expected to raise his salary to between $7 and $7.5 million per year from his current annual compensation of almost $5.4 million and extend his term as head football coach of the Crimson Tide. The agreement ends speculation that intensified in recent days that Saban might emerge as a candidate at Texas after reports that Mack Brown would step down after 16 years. Brown, ironically, is still head coach at Texas and was at the team's banquet Friday night. The idea Texas would target Saban to replace Brown, should he retire, began to gain steam after reports surfaced in September that Texas regent Wallace Hall and former regent Tom Hicks had approached Saban's agent in January after Saban won his third national championship at Alabama - and his fourth overall, counting one at LSU - to gauge the coach's interest in leaving UA for Texas. Saban, 62, responded by saying repeatedly that he remained committed to Alabama and that he was "too damn old to go someplace else and start all over."

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