Dale Jones? We might as well hire Tee.
Mendenhall won't be leaving BYU anytime soon. He turned down UCLA last year, and then crushes them. Besides, the Mormon thing has been well debated here, and moving his family to TN would be a real culture shock. I also read an interview with him, and he won't recruit players during missions and all that. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but he's got a team that's got a huge percentage of Mormon kids on it, and someone with such strict religious standards would have a more difficult time adjusting to kids who come from low income/broken family environments where there is little or no guidance. It would be like him coming in back in 1998 and Al Wilson using the F word in pregame speeches. How would he handle someone like that?
Personally, I like Mangino. I mean, the guy won the National coach of the year last year and has taken KS as far as he probably could. People overlook him because he makes Fulmer look thin, but the man has turned 2 and 3 star recruits into 4 and 5 star playes. Don't know if he'd leave that situation though.