City must have NFL team Stadium must be 70,000 or more January ave temp must be 50 degrees or more or domed/retractable roof stadium present 24,500 motel/hotel rooms within hour of stadium

His buyout is prohibitive. 5 million if he takes an assistant or OC job somewhere else. http://www.orangeandwhite.com/news/2011/dec/15/chad-morris-new-deal-carries-hefty-buyout-penaltie/?partner=RSS

Totally destroyed some excellent SEC defenses with the Air Raid at Kentucky. Bob Stoops could not defend it at Florida and made up his mind that when he did land a HC position he would go after Leach to be his OC. Leach was OC briefly in Norman and soon got his own HC gig in Lubbock.

It may be a window dressing "hire/being considered for hire" prior to the coaches convention. http://www.afca.com/article/article.php?id=1160 Much easier for Watson to go to the convention as the OC of Texas and let the word out that he's "wanting to stay in the upper midwest" or any other...

Best academics of any FBS university in the South/ Texas, Duke, Vanderbilt and Rice have to be the top 4, in no particular order. Georgia Tech would likely be number 5. If you're talking major conference schools, just sub in GT for Rice and you have your top 4. Best public universities would...

one year as long as Rhett Lashlee has been coaching/

(said with Butthead's voice) Uhhh, Red's an old used car salesman...He was just a....kickin' the tires with that comment.

Official visits are to THE UNIVERSITY, not to any specific Head Coach. If Mack Brown brought a prospective recruit in on an official visit, that recruit has used his official visit to Texas. A recruit can make 5 official visits to 5 different schools. Recruits can make as many unofficial...

Mike Sumlin was at Houston and is now at A&M. How could ESPN miss something that obvious?

Patterson and UT are obviously intent on the Strong hire. Lets not debate the merits of the hire, that's not the purpose of the post. Seemingly, the one roadblock is Clint Hurtt, the current Louisville DL coach who is now serving a two year NCAA "show cause" penalty for recruiting violations...

Sumlin and Strong will engage in some epic recruiting battles. Saban would crush Sumlin on the recruiting trail.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-12/big-east/2012-louisville-cardinals-football-schedule.php http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-13/aac/2013-louisville-cardinals-football-schedule.php Strong is going to see a level of schools he has never witnessed as a Head Coach. Massive difference between Big 12...

How is it a great hire? Texas decided to offer a coach from the America Conference and didn't even offer a native Texan who just won the Big 12? Was Malzahn offered? Was Mora offered and not Briles?

Yes, that is something that will get questioned endlessly. Patterson could hire Strong, but there are a LOT of candidates who deserve the offer ahead of Strong. Briles is one of them.

Agree