Who will be the coach?

AP ... fighting four-letter-network fire with fire. Huzzah.

 

Mora Jr. has to be laughing his ass off right now.

 

Bobby Petrino is the smartest man in America today by getting the hell out of Atlanta.

But Arkansas? He was desperate, but then again Petrino did this last year to L'ville. Walk off and burn bridges.

 

I guess the Johnsons don't want to get screwed by coaching at Duke. First Paul Johnson picks Georgia Tech over those mighty Blue Devils and now Vanderbilt coach Bobby Johnson has pulled his name from consideration.

 

Maybe I was the only one, but I didn't see how he was interested in the first place. Even from Vandy, it seemed like a serious step down.

 

Bobby Johnson is winning most of the walkover games at Vandy and picking off an occasional scalp in the SEC often enough to please the fans in Nashville. He would have a lot of work to do just to get Duke to that level in Durham.

I wonder if Steve Spurrier and Joe Alleva will even consider Steve Logan, now the offensive coordinator at Boston College. He had a great run at East Carolina, and his tenure there ended only because then-AD Mike Hamrick - one of the true idiots in college athletics - took a personal beef and turned it professional.

 

A lot of the ESPN talking heads, and even former ESPN talking head Dan Patrick, keep saying "Aha!" about the buyout clause still being in the contract, as if it somehow makes it easier for Miles to leave. Do people not realize it's a penalty for Miles, that he has to pay LSU $1.25 million if he leaves LSU to work for Michigan, and that there is no other school linked to a buyout?

Do they not realize it would be even easier for him to leave for Michigan if the amended contract didn't have the buyout in it? I don't get the "Aha!," the almost patting-themselves-on-the-back detective work here.

 

Tennessee Tech

 

$1.25M is chicken change in these deals. Michigan will give Miles a signing bonus for $1.28M and be happy about it.

And Petrino is goofy if he signs with Arkansas quickly, with LSU possibly opening up in three or four weeks. Unless, of course, he and his agent would be willing to sign with Arkansas today, then jump to LSU on Jan. 10. By that time, of course, Saban might be back in town.

OTOH, if I'm Petrino, I have my agent at least give U-M a call.

The brass-balls threshold just keeps getting lifted higher.

 

A lot of people laugh at Arkansas ... but I've said it before, and I'll say it again ... NO athletic department in the country has better top-to-bottom facilities. Tennessee is close with all the money its putting into everything, but Arkansas is still tops nationally from what I've seen.

And Fayeteville is a much better town than most think. And that area of the country is pretty, too.

You can win big there, in my opinion.

 

Honestly, I never understood that "Aha" moment anyway, when I was listening to DP musing about it (I know, I know, I shouldn't be listening to it, but NPR puts me to sleep in the mornings). Comma, I read up on the details of the contract and I saw the penalty part if he bolts.

Yeah, I admit, I do laugh at Arkansas, not because of Fayetteville, campus, or the facilities. It's the hicks who live in the state that make me howl in laughter. It's like "Mama's Family" on crystal meth.

 

Les Miles is going to keep hearing this crap about UM until he says. "Now listen, just because you had a coach here who lied his ass off about jobs, doesn't mean you have one now."