I hear ya. Kind of amazes me that people don't want to talk about other possible options even when almost every hire starting with Strong himself was not a leading name mentioned in the forums. Thanks for giving your thoughts on Schramm. I also think he would be a home run (as well as a several...

I updated to add some info due to the lack of a single response.

I started another thread and then saw this. I agree it could be anyone. And Strong said he was looking for someone with ties doesn't mean he said that person would absolutely have ties. Here's a list of coordinators I have not seen discussed that I think would all be solid to splash options...

Based on the hiring so far, many of the hires were names that weren't being discussed before hand. What if that's the case with offensive coordinator as well? Here are some decent OC's that I haven't seen discussed much. Any thoughts on any of these being a potential target? Phillip Montgomery...

I did not. Someone else may have grabbed it from here (I have the same handle on OB, IT, and HS). I try not to post new threads over there because I don't enjoy being attacked. I didn't see it on any other service before I posted it here.

Looked at Herman's Twitter and the person he most recently started following was Jerrod Heard. Maybe it means nothing, but it certainly makes me hopeful.

He will become the white whale that Peterson became at Boise State. It will not negatively impact him at all. He will be the guy who told TEXAS to take a walk. It would improve his brand equity. Patterson would be the loser in that scenario. More than likely he would end up first in line to...

Your five correspond with my top 5. Although I also had Gruden and Tomlin in there as well for the needed splash with recruits....You are exactly right, there is nothing we can do except support the hell out of Strong and hope that he turns out to be the greatest college football coach of all...

The salary is insane and I'm sure many academics at UT will bring that up the next time they are talking about tight budgets. Hell, I would have paid them money to go into Bellmont and clean house. They could have made me the hatchet man and hired someone on the cheap to run the department. It...

Wait, so $5MM salary, $5MM in Strong's buyout, $2.75MM + $1.3MM a year in mack buyout/payoff totaling $7.85MM per year wasn't worth it for a 4 year coach from a mid-tier school? :) I hear you. Expensive, but I'm hoping by some miracle it will be worth it.

Because Deloss got canned after McWilliams and Mackovick? We needed a splash hire to offset the decline of the Big 12. We didn't get it. We got a guy who will probably be a good coach. I would have liked to have seen what he would do without a heisman calibre QB before taking him to Texas. But...

Why would we risk losing recruits and sit on Strong for 7 days after his bowl game? Especially considering that he would have likely left even before the bowl game if we had made it a condition of employment. I think the obvious answer is that he's a back up if our top targets say "no."

I have never wanted Briles and I think he's possibly the second coming of McWilliams if we hire him. He caught lightning in a bottle with RG3, which gave him a bump in recruiting, which was further inflated by Texas and OU being in down years. Because of the investment in facilities etc. Baylor...

Hornrush, can you please provide some more specifics for those who would like to investigate? For instance, what year was this convention etc.? To whom was it said? Was it reported anywhere, or is this anecdotal? I think this is more relevant information in terms of the coaching search than...

^^^^^^This

I blame Mack and I hate him for what he did. However, Saban made the choice at the end of the day. He wanted it on his terms, and thanks to Mack, we could not meet those terms. He should have realized what he gave up not being willing to comprise and hang in through the Mack BS. I can't feel...

Mack screwed it up. Wholeheartedly agree. Saban let the BS affect him, and he shouldn't have. In the end, Mack doesn't have a mind control device. Saban made the choice to give in. Today he was quoted as said he NEVER considered Texas thereby giving more ammunition to idiots like Finebaum...

I hoped beyond hope that we would get Saban. I felt he could pull off the kind of sweeping cultural change that needs to happen with the program. He's made his choice, and now I will root against him and Alabama from this point forward, in all things. He deserves the classless unintelligent...

EM, wanted to say thanks for the great posts and for coming over to HornSports. You have different sources than some other insiders and it's great to hear the differing perspectives from various sources. One question. Is it possible that the Mack stuff is a ruse and he actually is in support of...

Wow, you sound exactly like PBR_streetgang. Using a new handle over here?