Who has thrown out Les Miles' name? Link?
And like someone else asked, is Petrino washed up?
BTW, I would take Kiffin or Randy Sanders back.
I was a student at UT when Doug Dickey spurned us for Florida. The fan base was just as butt hurt (especially losing the bowl game to the Gators) as when Kiffin left. Yet we eventually took him back as AD, which was a great hire.
Am I campaigning for CLK to return? No, but he would be a hell of a better coach the some of the names of some of the old washed up has-beens like Petrino, Miles and others getting tossed around here.
I was a student at UT when Doug Dickey spurned us for Florida. The fan base was just as butt hurt (especially losing the bowl game to the Gators) as when Kiffin left. Yet we eventually took him back as AD, which was a great hire.
Am I campaigning for CLK to return? No, but he would be a hell of a better coach the some of the names of some of the old washed up has-beens like Petrino, Miles and others getting tossed around here.
I very much disliked the way AD Hamilton handled the CPF matter. My feelings were that we could have promoted Chavis to HC position and kept Sanders as OC. I admit that I was excited about the Kiffin hire especially having Monte as our DC.
I favor hiring alumni and we have 3 good ones out there at present in T.Martin, R.Sanders, and JB.Cooter. It's just a matter of time according to many in the NFL before JB takes an NFL HCing position. Sanders has 2 NCAA championship rings and I'm not sure about Martin. He may have added a 2nd under P.Carroll at USC. One main reason I'd like to have these 3 alumni is we could retain 3/4 of the current staff and avoid all the buyouts of the entire coaching staff. I am somewhat concerned that any of these 3 would even want to coach here. And neither of them have any head coaching experience and all 3 are offensive coaches where we need the most improvement. Just a thought but P.Manning would vouch for Cooter because they have worked together in the NFL in Indy and Denver. I'm not suggesting hiring all 3 but at least 1 and possibly 2 for our offense.
A good cheap hire that u could give a insanely crazy leave buyout to and could potentially be worth way more then u have to pay him