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But if the seven-time national champion head coach had been offered and accepted the Texas job and replaced Mack Brown, Texas wouldn’t be in the position it finds itself in now nine years and three head coaches later and almost certainly would have won its fifth national title if not more. Saban’s that good, the best in the history of college football, if not all team sports.
It’s Steve Sarkisian’s task now to restore the Longhorns to prominence and win a benchmark game like this weekend’s against No. 1 Alabama to give some substance to Sam Ehlinger’s premature vow after the 2019 Sugar Bowl that Texas was back. Since that win over Georgia, the Horns are a pedestrian 21-15. Not back.
"It’s hard to look back, but there would have been a much higher probability of winning a national championship than with the two coaches who came after Mack," a high-ranking Texas official said this week."I think Sarkisian has the potential with his organizational ability and the foundation he’s laid, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon."
When Hicks then ran it by Mack Brown, the coach bluntly opposed the idea, and most thought that was the end of it. Patterson had just spent a morning session with Brown, visiting with him in the coach’s office about changes on his staff that he’d make. Shortly after he left, Powers called him and said Brown had to be fired. Patterson returned to Brown’s office and gave him the bad news, shoving out the door the second-best coach in Longhorns history. Brown’s spokesman at North Carolina said Mack declined to revisit the topic.
Patterson said he played along and even offered to send a plane to Tuscaloosa to bring Saban and Sexton to Austin. Sexton told Patterson that it would take a 10-year, $100 million deal to lure Saban to Texas.
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