The Football Brainiacs

Nick Saban image from WashingtonPost.com; Mack Brown image from TheStatesman.com

As you all know last week reported that we had two good sources telling us that Mack would be out and Saban would be next head coach at Texas. Here is the link to that post ( https://thefootballbrainiacs.com/?p=1726). We wanted to give you an update and say a few words.

A lot of people attacked us after we posted that last week. Our loyal readers know that all we try to do is tell y’all what we know when we are permitted to do so by our sources. And we want to thank y’all for defending us. We have no ill will towards the people that attacked us and lets face it the situation has not fully played out yet. But we wanted to make something clear. We did NOT report on this issue last week as a publicity stunt or anything of the sort. We run this site as a hobby. We all have other professions that we work in. There were many reasons we started this site two months ago. Among those reasons was to offer Oklahoma fans breakdowns and information about the Sooners. And to offer, what we consider, more authentic evaluations of talented HS players. We would never compromise our integrity as human beings to garner attention. It’s not who we are. In fact after we ran the story we were contacted by multiple media outlets including two of the largest national sports radio programs and we declined an interview. In part, because we didn’t want to give anyone the impression that we we’re using cheap tactics to gain attention. And in part because we told y’all everything we we’re allowed to say.

Those of you who have followed us in the short time that we’ve been online know that we’ve given y’all plenty of accurate recruiting information. We’ve been fortunate to not have been wrong yet but we fully expect that if we do this long enough we will be at some point. No one can be right all the time. We know that the average reader out there doesn’t necessarily know a lot about the x’s and o’s of football so we try to offer a little insight in that area. We also know that the average reader doesn’t know a lot of people that work in the football community so we try to tell y’all what we hear from our inside source. We have said repeatedly that we have NO plans to ever charge money for our information. And yes, you can take that to the bank.

We were asked over and over why we never retracted the story and the simple answer was that our sources never retracted the story and to this day they still haven’t (this is documented on twitter). Now moving on to the Mack Brown/Nick Saban situation. We can’t tell you everything we’ve heard but we will tell you what we can and you can take it however you want. If you’re media reading this, please don’t bother contacting us. We’re not interested in talking to anyone and lets be honest the only thing you offer is a few minutes of fame or publicity and we don’t give a rats ass about either of those things. If you’re anyone else, again if you don’t like what we’re saying or you don’t like our site then feel free to not visit and feel free to unfollow us on Twitter.

We have 3 sources now. The 3rd source just surfaced.

1st source – our first source was the original source that let us know this was going to happen. This is an Alabama based source that is steeped in the football community down there. Once we heard the word from this source last week we immediately contacted our second source to confirm.

2nd source – this is a Texas based source who so far has been right about everything related to the Mack Brown situation and where certain parties stand. This source confirmed our second source last week and told us that the money for Saban would be huge.

3rd source – this is an Alabama based source with ties to the Saban family. This source has contradicted the first two sources and told us that the Sabans do not plan on leaving Alabama. Again, this is our most recent source.

The latest with sources 1 and 2 is that they have NOT backed down. As the editor I am the one with the sources. I will tell you that in terms of closeness to me the 1st source is a long time friend. In terms of reliability I cant be certain which source is most reliable because they all have relationships that I trust. Again, we are not crawfishing here. As any of our readers will tell you…all we do is tell people what we’ve heard and we will sometimes offer our thoughts on that. This is what we’ve heard.

We also want to tell those of you who kept emailing us telling us that a deal between Alabama and Nick Saban had been signed; that is not true. An agreement has not been signed. A deal has been leaked but that is common practice in order to gain leverage. We have not heard anything else about the deal but we know it has not yet been signed. Also, we had some suggest that Coach Malzahn would be a target for Texas and you can go back and read our twitter – we haven’t deleted anything – we told y’all that Coach Malzahn would NOT be a candidate. And 2 days later ESPN reported on a deal with Coach Malzahn and Auburn. We don’t have final word on whether this deal has been signed but we are standing by what we’ve been told – that Coach Malzahn is not a target.