Alabama's Nick Saban: My agent called me 'about 15 times' regarding Texas job

Nick Saban is locked into his gig as head football coach at Alabama through 2022, but in the fall of 2013, he had a heavily publicized flirtation with Texas - and apparently Texas was very persistent.

Saban offered some details of that flirtation while speaking to a booster club in Northwest Florida on Tuesday night. He said his agent, Jimmy Sexton, called him "about 15 times" to gauge his interest in the Longhorns job.

"I have an agent (Jimmy Sexton), which most coaches have, and when somebody is interested in you, they call your agent, which they did," Saban said, according to D.C. Reeves of The Tuscaloosa News. "The agent calls you, and you tell the agent 'I'm interested' or 'I'm not interested.' So (Sexton) called me about 15 times about Texas, and every time he called I said I'm not interested in talking to them, and I never will be. That's the story. He did his job, I did my job."

In an upcoming unauthorized Saban biography, Monte Burke details Saban's connection with the Texas job in 2012 and 2013.

An excerpt from the book released by The New York Times on Saturday details several of Sexton's conversations with people related to the football program at Texas, from the time the courting began until Saban signed a contract extension with Alabama in December of 2013.