TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama coach Mike Price met with university officials Thursday amid revelations of a free-spending night at a topless bar in Florida and that a young woman tried to charge more than $1,000 in food and drinks to his hotel bill the next morning.

The fate of the former Washington State coach could be decided at a trustees meeting on Saturday, months before he coaches his first game for the Crimson Tide.

University president Robert Witt and athletic director Mal Moore met with Price on Thursday morning. Witt called a meeting of the board of trustees' athletics committee and other board members for Saturday "to present and discuss his decision regarding Price's status as head football coach," a university statement said.

Price, 57, came under university scrutiny after spending time at a nightclub called Arety's Angels in Pensacola, Fla., on April 16, while in town for a pro-am golf tournament the next day.

"He was here and he was a perfect gentleman," club owner Arety Kapetanis told The Associated Press on Thursday. "He did not leave with anyone from our club."

While at the topless club, Price bought some drinks for himself and dancers but did not hug them, Kapetanis said. He did hug a waitress who was clothed, however, and quickly backed off when told touching was not allowed, she said.

"He did not appear to be or act intoxicated. It was good, clean fun," Kapetanis told the AP.

A dancer, "Destiny" Stahl, 36, told The Birmingham News that Price spent about $200 on her and bought drinks for and tipped other dancers, but nothing happened beyond dancing.

Kapetanis said Stahl, who works the day shift, was still on duty when Price left and was picked up by her husband. Price, however, returned later that night with some friends.

The next morning, a young woman in Price's hotel room ordered more than $1,000 in food and drinks and charged it to his bill -- one of everything on the menu, Andrea Wright, assistant manager of the Crowne Plaza Grand Royal, told the Montgomery Advertiser.

Dale Peterson, manager of the hotel, declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press on Thursday. The name of the woman in Price's room was not disclosed.

The Mobile Register, quoting four workers at the Crowne Plaza who did not want to be identified, said the woman wanted the food placed in boxes so she could leave with it.

The hotel contacted Price of the unusual order, and he returned later in the day and paid the bill after the woman left, according to the report in The Register. She was not allowed to leave with the order.

Price, who was hired in December from Washington State, is married and has two sons on his coaching staff. He has declined to comment on his actions during the trip.

ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel reports that rather than go to a party for pro-am players in the Bruno's Memorial Classic in Birmingham on Tuesday night, Price phoned his assistant coaches, who are on the road recruiting, and apologized for the scandal.

"It's embarrassing," Price told one coach. "I hate it for Joyce [his wife]. I hate it for my kids [sons Aaron and Eric]." Given that Witt instructed his employees to say nothing, the staff member who recounted the conversation to ESPN.com asked to go unnamed.

Witt told The Tuscaloosa News his meeting with Price on Thursday was "very productive." He called the ordeal "a very sad and unfortunate event."

Witt said he was in contact with the chancellor and university trustees and hoped "to bring closure to this situation as soon as possible."

"This review involves careers and lives and it has been imperative that it be thorough," he said in a statement.

He said he was unable to assemble the trustees before Saturday because some had scheduling conflicts.

Washington State sports information director Rod Commons, who worked with Price for 26 years, told ESPN.com on Wednesday: "I've never seen any type of inappropriate behavior. I've never seen him drunk in public. I don't know what to think. It's got me baffled."

This could become yet another black mark on a Tide program which has won six national championships but is now on NCAA probation.

The probation came after Mike DuBose was forced out during a 3-8 season in 2000, having survived an admission to lying about his relationship with his secretary. The university agreed to pay the woman $350,000 to settle accusations of sexual harassment, but opted to let DuBose keep his job.

The NCAA placed the football program on five years' probation early last year, mostly for violations that occurred during DuBose's four-year tenure.

Popular coach Dennis Franchione left the Tide in the lurch last year, bolting for Texas A&M after winning 10 games in his second season. Alabama then turned to Price.

Price had led Washington State to back-to-back 10-win seasons and a Rose Bowl berth last season.

The reports came a day after Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy was suspended following the publication of photographs in The Des Moines Register that showed him partying with students and kissing young women on the cheek.

Information from ESPN.com's Ivan Maisel and The Associated Press was used in this report.