Chip Brown Calls Nick Saban's $100 Million Texas Offer Story "Ridiculous" And "A Myth", Calls Out Paul Finebaum
Yesterday, reports came out that a part of ESPN personality Paul Finebaum's new book states that Texas boosters were prepared to offer Alabama coach Nick Saban a contract in excess of $100 million. Horns Digest's Chip Brown has been railing against that story today, writing a long blog post refuting the notion that Texas would offer anyone such a monumental number.
The world knew at that point there was a group of power brokers at Texas who were interested in the possibility of Saban as the Longhorns’ next football coach.
Following that, 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.
“If that’s not good enough ($7 million per year), then we would move on," I was told last December. "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.”
Brown has gone as far as to say that the story has been manufactured in order to sell Finebaum's book:
Yet the fabrications of Saban getting his own fleet of Brinks trucks from Texas will now apparently be repeated in the book “My Conference Can Beat Your Conference.”
And if this ridiculous, $100 million myth pulled from a tweet by an Oklahoma sportscaster (that also included Texas allegedly giving away 1 percent of ESPN’s property), is being used to sell the book, then it should be noted for what it is.
Fiction.
When I called one of the Saban-supporting Texas power brokers Wednesday about what’s allegedly being written in Finebaum’s book, I was told:
“This is just made up bulls**t.”
Brown has now offered to have Finebaum on his radio show to discuss the story.
">@Finebaum to come on my radio show
I welcome @Finebaum to come on my radio show @1049TheHorn 6-10 am CT weekdays and defend his book's $100 million myth re #Texas and Saban.
— Chip Brown (@ChipBrown247) July 17, 2014
">@1049TheHorn 6-10 am CT weekdays and defend his book's $100 million myth re #Texas and Saban.
— Chip Brown (@ChipBrownHD) July 17, 2014
There's nothing like a good old media feud to get us through this long off-season.
