re: Process Of Elimination - Texas

"Heck, even Bama was rejected before they hired Saban and the whole world knew about it"

It's funny how everyone is giving Texas the benefit of the doubt that they have a coach lined up while no one gave Alabama the benefit of the doubt when they waited for Saban. The media used every one of the statements from coaches and their extensions and raises at the time as evidence that they had rejected actual job offers from Alabama. I remember ESPN running through a list of about 6 coaches that Alabama supposedly offered the job to and got rejected by using the Family Feud wrong answer buzzer. They even claimed that Jim Leavitt turned down an official job offer. The fact is that Rich Rodriguez was the only official offer Alabama made to a coach before Saban. Rich Rod initially accepted before Finebaum essentially sabotaged the hire by picking on RR's wife on the air.

This Texas search is very similar to Alabama's last search in that after a lot of initial speculation the search went quiet for several weeks. I think Texas has their guy.