I still remember hearing it when they gave the job to Chizik at Auburn and making Muschamp the next coach with out giving interviews! Im Just Saying, and I hope im wrong

Houston Nutt has no intention of leaving Ole Miss, and this is obviously just a negotiating tactic. Think about it this way…

1) He’s done a solid job at Ole Miss of starting to threaten the upper tier of the SEC (they beat Florida in the Swamp last year, and they took out LSU and Tennessee this season. Big wins show promise and he wants to remind an AD of his value.
2) While having a few sexy wins the last few seasons, the Rebels also dropped games to South Carolina and Auburn this season. They were also humiliated by Alabama and completely fall apart against Mississippi State. (That’s Mississippi A&M to you). It’s time to make people forget about the sky-high expectations coming into this season.
3) Competing in the SEC year-in-and-year-out is difficult, but being banished to a basketball school that can’t recruit or consistently compete with Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, or Missouri is an even trickier challenge. (Seriously, Mangino may have been a prick, but you have to respect that he started with nothing and won an Orange Bowl with other people’s leavings). But that said, the only Big 12 school the Jayhawks had a winning record against in Mark’s years? …Iowa State. Um, yeah. And he was a “success.” Think about what that says about the program. Would you want to build a program up from scratch? When Nebraska is turning the ship around? When Missouri is going to put up points save rebuilding years? When Texas, OU, and Oklahoma State haven’t been destroyed by tornadoes?

…and this is me as a HUGE fan of his since my parents both went to Buffalo…I think he’s the real deal. He started with literally nothing at all and despite that he went out and recruited Texas and Florida heavily, and also mined kids that were overlooked in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc by the regionals (Pitt, Penn State, etc). He’s sent some kids to the NFL (not stars, but still, it counts), and overall he just has a class and gravitas that make the kids believe in him and the program. Obviously the Big 12 would be much more difficult challenge for a young coach compared to low-tier conference like the MAC that has a lot of parity (read as, “a lot of bad teams puncuated by a few decent teams with no depth”), but he can recruit and get the absolute most out of his players. I’m praying that his interview isn’t just window-dressing to comply with that NCAA iniative about getting minority coaches in the door. He’s a great guy who desrves a chance at a big program, and he’d be a breath of fresh air.

That said, I bet Tommy Tuberville and Terry Bowden get calls too….

However it shakes out, let’s hope it’s someone good…for the Big 12’s sake!

The Daily Roundup will be so exciting. Leach and Nutt in the same conference!