This is NO GOOD

Butch Davis came out and said today that he has no interest in the ORANGE! He was their top canidate for the job with The Mad Scientist a distant 2nd. Kifin is their third choice. The reason I said this is no good because their top choice doesn't scare me. Leach is the next Steve Spurier without the cocky attitude. Kifin is one of the best recruters in the country! i liked that Davis was the top choice because I think he is not much better than the great pumpkin.

Do you guys feel like if Leach takes the job it's a lateral move?

After what he has built in Lubbuck over the last 9 years, I feel like he is in a better spot in the Big 12. Money talks though and i have heard that the offer could reach $5,000,000.

Let's hope everyone turns it down and they give it to clAWFUL(son.....

IMO, the UT job is an elite HCing job......hands down a much better job than TT. With 2-3 times the money.

Mike Leach is having a fluke year in Lubbock, no matter what anyone says. Plus, his entire system is based on the fact that the Big 12 doesn't play defense. When Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado actually had defense (which they don't this year), the Red Raiders didn't do squat. You try to bring that mess to the SEC, and you'll throw up numbers on Kentucky and Mississippi State and Arkansas. You'll beat the powers (UGA, LSU, UF, UA, AU) once in a while, once in a blue moon, in a down defensive year. But you're not going to win year in and year out with that mess. And no one can recruit both sides of the ball with that caliber athlete on a consistent basis. LSU did it for about two or three years, as did Tennessee. We've done it about two years running. You can't come into the SEC with the attitude Mike Leach has, the lack of any regional pull, and a gimmick system and expect to get anywhere. Mike Leach is not a threat.

Then again, if the entire SEC has a down year (which happened in 2006 and again this year), a carpetbagging gimmick-oriented coach might have a good year, especially with someone else's players. I'm sorry, Gainesville, do I hear weeping coming from your direction?

A system like TT worked pretty well for Flordia during the ole ball coaches years. Now i know he had the whole state of Flordia to choose from, but Tennesse has the whole country. TT has never had a defense but look at their offense over the years. he is not a one year coaching phenom, with the right DC he could have a championship calibur team every year?? Like i said before i think Butch Davis is a better fit and the other two scare the hell out of me.

It's not going to be any of those guys. Don't know who, but not them. And $5M, no way will TN pay that.

Just hope it's not Muschamp.....he needs to go to Clemson.