re: Thamel says Mark Stoops expected to emerge as A&M candidate

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a flashy hire, but he’s a good coach no doubt.

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He’s a decent coach but this would be a pretty big fail. AM SHOULD be able to do a lot better.

Not buying it. Think this is the Stoops camp trying to put pressure on Iowa if anything.

Yeah I do not buy this at all. Not an “A&M hire”

This..why on earth pay someone 75million dollars to go away, then turtle and look for someone at 6-8 million..insanity, if you actually have that much money. Chances are you’ll be doing the exact same thing in 5 yrs

Bold strategy firing Jimbo to then go hire someone from Jimbo’s coaching tree.

Certainly not if their strategy then is to go cheap to make that buyout back

So you pay 100m to get rid of Jimbo and staff to get a guy that’s 35-56 in the SEC?

I like stoops but they can do better

A&M prefers Elko. But if Elko is dead set on staying at Duke, then I could see why Stoops would get consideration.

But it smells more like agent smoke to me