University of Texas football coach Mack Brown denied that he plans to resign from the Longhorns. Alabama coach Nick Saban, meanwhile, is reportedly beginning to look for a potential coaching staff in Texas.
OrangeBloods.com reported on Tuesday that Brown intended to step down from Texas by the end of the week. No other media outlets or school officials were able to confirm it, and on Thursday Brown dismissed the report.
"My situation has not changed," Brown said during the Alamo Bowl news conference, via USA Today Sports. "I've got the best president in the country in Bill Powers. What we did lose was an iconic athletic director (DeLoss Dodds). We've hired what I think is a great athletic director in Steve Patterson. Any time we have AD changes, it changes the game.
"I need to sit down with him and Bill in the near future to figure out where the program's going, all get on the same page and move forward."
Brown, who took over the Longhorns football program in 1998, declined to further speculate on his job status and shifted the focus back to the upcoming bowl game.
He's expected to meet with the Texas Board of Regents on Thursday.
Although Saban and Texas officials have denied speaking with each other, Geoff Ketchum of OrangeBloods.com reported on Thursday that Saban is already beginning to look at a possible coaching staff if he were to take the Texas job.
"An OB source has confirmed that Nick Saban has initiated the vetting process of trying to see what a staff at Texas might look like," Ketchum tweeted.
Two "high-level sources" told OrangeBloods that Brown would retire this week after losing at least four games in four straight seasons.
"Mack Brown loves Texas and wants what's in the best interest of Texas and what's in the best interest of Mack Brown," one of the high-level sources told OrangeBloods' Chip Brown. "I don't think it's been an easy decision. But he doesn't want negativity around the program he helped unify."
