Alabama coach Nick Saban isn't bolting for the University of Texas, at least according to the Crimson Tide's starting quarterback. AJ McCarron said on Thursday Saban told him that he's staying put in Alabama.
"I messed with Coach, [saying] he's getting too old to start up again somewhere else," McCarron said during ESPN's "College Football Daily" on Thursday. "He told me he's not leaving. And I know Miss Terry [Saban's wife] well enough; she runs that house. And she's not allowing Coach to leave either. I think he'll be back at the University of Alabama for a little while."
McCarron's remarks run contrary to a report on Thursday by OrangeBloods.com, which claimed Saban had already "initiated the vetting process of trying to see what a staff at Texas might look like."
Saban's name has been linked to the Texas coaching job, still held by Mack Brown, for months now. The latest deluge of rumors came on Tuesday when OrangeBloods.com reported two "high-level sources" said Brown plans to resign at the end of the week.
Brown, the Texas football coach since 1998, denied the report on Thursday.
"My situation has not changed," Brown said during the Alamo Bowl news conference on Thursday, 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."
The Texas Board of Regents is expected to meet on Thursday, where both Brown and Power's fate could be decided.
