re: A big name coach????

When Skip hired Les Miles, it was because Saban screwed us over on the timing of his leaving. All the potential big name hires (Spurrier, Meyer, et. al,) had been picked off by other schools. In Miles, Skip saw a chance to not only get a head coach from a major conference, but since he wasn't on anybody's radar screen, to get him on the cheap as well.

I think if Miles leaves, his replacement is once again going to be somebody we're not even discussing as a possibility right now, i.e., a lesser name like a Brian Kelly or Chris Peterson.