The Texas Longhorns have not fared well under head coach Mack Brown in the years following their BCS Championship Game loss to Alabama and now some Texas fans are beginning to question whether it's time to move on to a new head coach. But athletic director DeLoss Dodds insists that stability is the best thing for the UT program right now and thinks that Longhorn fans that want a new coach should think twice.

"If you have stability, you have continuity and you've got good people," Dodds said in an

. "It's a formula that works. I think we've got that."

Rumors of Texas pursuing Alabama head coach Nick Saban have been a commonplace feature of the last two college football offseasons but Dodds said in an interview on Tuesday that UT fans should abandon the notion that the Crimson Tide coach could end up in Austin.

"If somebody tells me we need to change, I say, 'Ok, but who should we hire? Saban? Well, Saban isn't going to come here.'"

According to The Daily Texan, Dodd used another SEC example to defend his decision to keep Brown in place. Dodd pointed out that after firing Phillip Fulmer following the 2008 season, Tennessee has floundered, compiling a 23-27 record under Lane Kiffin and Derek Dooley.

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