HOUSTON — While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction:
1. The Nick Saban story, which reappears in a recent book, just won’t die. The truth is Texas’ high-powered donors — two, in particular — and the Longhorn fan base coveted Saban. But then-UT President Bill Powers continually told me Saban would not be the next Texas head coach, I think, in large part because of Saban’s age, the fear that he would be bigger than the university (and he might have been) and the view that the SEC operates by its own set of rules.