AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A top University of Texas booster who arranged a telephone conversation with Alabama coach Nick Saban's agent said the talk lasted 45 minutes.
Tom Hicks, who also is a former University of Texas System regent, told the Austin American-Statesman this week about the January telephone call between him and Saban agent Jimmy Sexton. He and, Regent Wallace Hall Jr. probed Sexton on whether Saban would be interested in succeeding Mack Brown as Texas football coach. Hall insisted on participating in the call last January, he said.
Hicks provided few details of the call to the newspaper. Hicks had declined to comment to comment on the call at all to the Associated Press when it first reported it last week.
Hicks lunched with Brown two days after the Sexton conversation and asked if he had considered retirement.