Nick Saban

[Bruce Nye]

Because of recruiting and $$$$ paid, college vs. pro are miles apart.  I can't think of a recognized college coach Texas would hire.  Texas is considered a top 5 job in college football.  So I don't think guys like Gruban, Herm Edwards, Shanahan, Lovie, etc. as viable candidates. Everyone speaks highly of the Vandy guy.  Is he that good?

[nate]

Franklin seems to be very good.  Briles is another guy that someone will look at.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

He is staying at 'bama.

 

Wonder who Texas gets.

 

Edit:  Sounds like they are going to stick with Mack Brown one more year.  Major PR blow to Texas IMO.

 

According to one report I read, Brown was prepared to step down quietly but it was leaked to the media, which pissed him off and made him dig in. If Texas dismisses him now, it will be a PR nightmare.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Because of recruiting and $$$$ paid, college vs. pro are miles apart.  I can't think of a recognized college coach Texas would hire.  Texas is considered a top 5 job in college football.  So I don't think guys like Gruban, Herm Edwards, Shanahan, Lovie, etc. as viable candidates. Everyone speaks highly of the Vandy guy.  Is he that good?

 

In a word, yes. He won nine games competing in the SEC at a school that has only a fraction of the resources of their opponents, plus brutal admission standards (only about 13 percent of the prospective students who apply at Vanderbilt get in). This is a school who puts so little emphasis on athletics that they once went for almost a year without an athletic director. Vandy doesn't recruit head-to-head against their main opponents on a lot of the top players because they couldn't qualify academically. A lot of the guys they get want to play football but have their eye on a Vanderbilt diploma to do something else after graduation.

 

I talked to one of their academic recruiters during my senior year in high school (this was in the early 1970s, mind you). He asked me about the possibility of walking on for football, even though I was a musician and I didn't play football in high school. He knew that I would qualify academically, and my guess is that he thought that I had enough size to possibly help them on the football field as well.

Edited December 14, 2013 by Vegas Halo Fan

[nate]

How come nobody ever asked me if I wanted to walk on to play football at their college?

[St1ck]

How come nobody ever asked me if I wanted to walk on to play football at their college?

 

 

Because you're 5 foot nothing, 100 and nothing, and have barely a spec of athletic ability. 

Edited December 14, 2013 by st1ckboy

[nate]

Oh, yeah.  Guess it makes sense.

[nando714]

Franklin seems to be very good. Briles is another guy that someone will look at.

Briles has a huge buy out and he just extended with Baylor

Mack will remain at UT for at least next season. Imo

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Briles has a huge buy out and he just extended with Baylor

Mack will remain at UT for at least next season. Imo

 

Texas' alternatives are dwindling, with Briles, Sumlin and Saban all recently extending. My guess is that it is at least one more year of the Mackster.

[RallyMo]

Sark!

[nando714]

Sark!

Nooooo

Lol

[Tank]

How come nobody ever asked me if I wanted to walk on to play football at their college?

Because you make Rudy look like Ed too tall jones.