This is a good testimony for why Saban doesn't allow assistants to address the media. Saban knows all too well how the media likes to put you into a corner.
Darned if you do:
If you say "Yes, I'm looking into other possibilities to advance my career, and do what's best for my family and myself.", the media will pulverize you for disloyalty. If you do not get hired somewhere else, you then lose any recruiting ability at your current location, and your boss is unhappy with you.
Darned if you don't:
If you say "I am currently happy where I am and hope to stay a long time.", and you are then offered a lucrative offer that you decide is best for your career and for your family, you are maligned as a liar.
And forget about ignoring the question. They will keep asking until you address it, one way or another.
The coaching world is different now. Constantly changing. Good coaches will be fired if the BOTs and boosters don't get what they want, e.g. Slocum, Cutcliffe (still scrathing my head over that one), or even Tuberville.
And lastly, we as Bama fans have no real cause to throw stones here. Saban's comments in his last days at Miami will follow him. Our rivals won't ever let that go. Tennessee took Thompson, we took Willis. It is how coaching these days is. I don't see it changing anytime soon. It is what it is.
RTR!