Surely, this cannot be the type of staff that Strong reportedly sold in his interview which helped propel him to the top of the list....can it? Please tell me these talks are just a courtesy to a former staffer so as to not hurt his feelings and that they will go no further.

Can we get a mulligan?

Me thinks we have mastered the tantric hiring process...

Got Saban?...

I got married my junior year of college. My wife was a freshman at UT. I thought he might want to know that I knew I would have some responsibilities so I launched into a 20 minute monologue about how I was going to address health insurance, car insurance, rent, emergencies, etc. When I got...

This. Can someone fill in the holes? Is it really magically dead with no explanation...Or....is this one of those situations where we need to all shut up about it in order to give it a chance? You can tell me. I won't tell anyone.

Well stated Joeywa. I couldn't agree more. No one involved in the reporting process (all the names you listed) is having a very nice Saturday. I imagine they are really stressed and worried at this point. I may be in the minority, but I will not think any less of them regardless of how this...

While the info from last night is hard to digest for all of us, why don't we push off the eating of our own until this thing comes into focus. I mean that it still doesn't add up. If he is staying, then he NEEDED to say it immediately and overtly. From a recruiting and staff retention...

Oh, hell, then its on me for immediately assuming he was talking about Case. Showed my ass there!

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Yep, that happened... That was not the right way to say we were unprepared at the QB position.

Rock on! That's big time!

Really, man?.....Really? I'm going to be doing back flips when Mack retires and Saban is announced because that is a homerun for UT, but I don't agree with this line of chatter AT ALL. It serves no purpose other than to kick a man while he's down. Is this what I can expect out of a staff person...

Dang, rough crowd. I thought, under the circumstances, Mack did a pretty dang good job handling that presser. He's in an awkward spot and still handled the room. I am curious how he transitions from here to the "oh, I'm retiring" speech, but I heard a little bit of set up for that in what he...

McPhaul, my brother, define "done deal." Is that agreed upon in principal, signed sealed delivered? To what extent is the deal done? Thank you, sir.

Simple psychology. If you associated Brown with the feelings that came with our great success, then you will have a hard time turning on him. If you associated it with particular players (Ricky, Major, Chris, Vince, Colt, etc.), then you tend to fight for those people because they bring those...

Great info, McPhaul, as always. For those of you with less experience reading McPhaul, I have not seen him go all in on information quite like he is now. His confidence in this makes me confident. There is usually some qualifications given along with the information from his sources and he...

Thanks, Joeywa. Sup, Pimp! Good to see the good ones filing in! The bean soup news is a let down. At least he did the right thing and threw his mom under the bus. Demonstrates shame.

Yes, upon reflection, there was a little hyperbole on my part related to that particular comment. I got a little excited, what can I say? Either way, like I said, I will see it as a very remarkable job all things considered.