Les Miles and the burner phone

Slap yourself for that suggestion.

 

Kansas coaching candidates: Lance Leipold, Jeff Monken among top options to replace Les Miles

Dennis Dodd included Bill Clark on this list. I laughed aloud. There is no way that Kansas is going to throw enough money at him to make Clark even consider walking away from UAB to go to the center of college football futility. He's got ten guys who would have been gone who are returning to play one more season due to Covid, and eight of them were 1st/2nd or honorable mention all-conference players. UAB opens Protective Stadium, the new home field, on October 2 against Liberty. It is an absolute gem of a facility. Add that he's *not* going to leave the South to go coach at KU.

Edit to add that Clark has already done the "take over the worst team in D-1 and build a winner" thing, and he's about to enjoy the fruits of his success.

 

Lance Leipold could be a good fit. He turns 57 in May, so just a bit too old for an actual football power to want to start fresh with him, and any MAC coach is no more than two recruiting classes away from the house of cards collapsing. At KU he can sock away $2 million-plus a year for 3-4 years, take his buyout and retire young enough to enjoy any grandkids. And if he somehow screws around and gets them to a bowl before then, an extension is in the bag.

 

Agreed that this gig does have to skew older. Anybody presumed to have a future in the business will have to take a pass on it. Seems made for a career grinder who has longed for a shot at the big bucks and who won't mind getting executed in three years.

 

I'm kind of with you, Hack. Suppose it was the history with Hadl, Sayers, Riggins. I even remember Willie Pless. Carved out a nice career in the CFL, IIRC. I even remember Don Fambrough's television show!

 

The Natrone Jayhawks were kind of fun. Bring him on to coach. He's associate head coach and OC at Winston-Salem State.

Natrone Means

 

He’d literally do it for a jar of almonds. Think of the cost savings.

 

Former LSU Board Member Details 2013 Decision to Keep Miles

 

Can I get an over-under on how many "Natrone means business" headlines this will spawn?

 

Didn't see too many in the Triangle (college days) or in San Diego (Chargers back in the day).

 

Did SI have a cover that said *Natrone Bomb*? I seem to remember that.

 

Indiana found their guy in Tom Allen. the right guy for that program...I'm sure there's a Tom Allen out there for Kansas too.