You're such a miserable got. While I hope Saban goes to Texas as much as anyone, your awful list and Texas superiority complex is as bad as it gets. Yeah, Alabama is a small, poor, red state, but to act like it doesn't have any redeeming qualities is beyond ignorant. I highly doubt you've spent any time there and i'm sure you're just stereotyping it like every other asshole in America. For a self-proclaimed "liberal," you sure are an arrogant, ill-informed, judgemental dip . Oh, and I was born in Texas, so don't tell me that "I just don't understand."
You and Vito belong together. Two pieces of who didn't attend UT, yet run around like that football team is the most important thing in the entire world. It's no wonder you two are always the ones spouting off with these dumbass takes. You never hear this kind of from the UT grads, which speaks volumes. Bottom line? You're an embarrassment to your state and the fanbase of the school you never went to.
To play devils advocate... Let me throw together another list for you
1. Bama has 15 national championships --- Texas has 4
2. Bama can certainly match any money that Texas can put together. To think otherwise is laughable. There is literally nothing more important than football in Turd town. They'll get the money if they have to.
3. Recruiting? He already stomps UT in recruiting on a yearly basis, convincing kids to go to school in a state that is supposedly worse than Mexico.
4. The stage?
Alabama has more winning football tradition than any other school in America, as well as a fawning ESPN to fellate them on the reg. When you win, the stage finds
you
5. Dennis Franchione left Alabama because he couldn't handle the pressure, a pressure exerted by the ghost of the best college football coach ever, not to mention the most passionate (and toothless) fanbase in the country
6. He has reached the level of a deity in Alabama. There is no way he'll ever be revered in Texas as much as he is in Tuscaloosa. Too many other things going on in that state. Too many other schools. Too many other pro teams. If his ego is indeed as massive as everyone suspects, there is no more perfect place to feed it than where he is right now.
7. Rich people buy lots of vacation homes, how is that relevant?
8. He gives zero s about the AD. Why should he? He's always the alpha dog in the room and gets what he wants regardless of who the stuffy old guy in the AD chair is.
The only one on your list that is relevant is the level of talent already on the team. From a purely football perspective, a move to Austin is lateral at best and a slight step down at worst. Yes, its a much better school in a far nicer city, but do you really think he gives a about that kind of stuff? There are really only a few things which will factor into his decision.
1. Is he ready for a new challenge? Is he getting bored with dominating the SEC? Is owning the Big-12 a bigger, more interesting challenge? Iow, is he bored where he is right now?
2. Potential sanctions.
That's it. All the other bull out there is probably moot.
If he goes, that's fine. Good luck and don't let the door hit ya. It will be incredibly pleasurable watching the resulting meltdown in the Crimson-colored fanbase. Oh, and it will be a meltdown perhaps unrivaled in college football history. Alabama will also instantly become easier for Auburn to beat. But if he stays, that's fine too. To be the best you gotta beat the best, and so on. Just don't be surprised if he decides to stick around in Tuscaloosa, as Austin, from a football perspective, doesn't really offer him anything he doesn't already have superior levels of at Alabama.
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