I'd be fine with Mendenhall, but I have a feeling he's not going to leave BYU. Still, can't hurt to ask. We should have asked if he was interested the day Kiffin left.
No way on Houston Nutt. Nutt's perfectly OK as a coach, but he can't recruit. He stepped in at Arkansas and took the players that Danny Ford never got a chance see develop, and had success until they were gone. He would have been fired later on if Darren McFadden hadn't fallen into his lap. Then, as soon as he didn't have McFadden anymore, he went to Ole Miss and coached the players that Ed Orgeron bought and couldn't coach.
Now that Coach Zer-O's players are leaving the program, Nutt is looking for someone else's talent to vulture off of for a few years.