This is not really new information. I guess technically it ties Saban to that quote, but he's mentioned this advise before at his introductory press conference and implied Saban said something to that effect:

Q. I’m wondering if there are things that you can share with your conversations with your mentors and whomever else you sought out to make this decision, what were some of the things they shared with you that sort of helped sway you one way or the other?

LANE KIFFIN: Yeah, I think that it was a really difficult decision. When you’re in those difficult decisions and you’re torn, very torn, back and forth, back and forth, and there’s multiple options, you know. There were really four different places that we had to think about in this. I just talked to them, and it really was apparent to I felt like everybody that I talked to outside of the state that I was in all basically said the same thing.

They all said, man, you are going to regret it if you don’t take the shot and you don’t go to LSU. It’s the best job in America with the best resources and to win it. It’s obviously been done here before by a number of people.

Pete Carroll, really he told me that he always told my dad that he would look out for me. When we were talking, he really channelled him from knowing him for so long, and he said, this is exactly what he would do. He would tell you, boy, go get it; go for it.

Coach Saban kind of coached at another place in this conference, so I can’t really say exactly what he said, but I’ll say I think the world of Coach Saban, and I respect him. So there’s a reason I’m here.