re: What about Strong to Miami, Morris or Herman to UT?

None of that will happen after this season. Morris can not hold Herman's jock strap though.

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What is the Big Cigar saying these days?

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I guess you are talking about the online "insider"? I don't know.

DeLoss Dodds was at the Perrin (interim AD) news conference, so between that and the obvious timing of the kiss-arse of Joe Jamail on the Jumbotron, it just screams to me that the band's back together.

My personal speculation is that Perrin will fire Strong and then Mack Brown will be hired as athletics director, and make his own hire. Mack's hands will stay clean.

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All the Texas guys I know swear to me that Oliver Luck is already locked up as the new AD.

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That's the msg board rumor anyway.

I think Strong would be a great fit and Miami or UGA. Hopefully he keeps his current job a little longer. I was hoping that he would get fired on the same year Collins leaves UF and maybe he could come back to UF as the DC for a few years but seems like his stock is still very high.

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His Florida ties, his scrappiness and his anti-thug rules make him a perfect fit for what Miami used to be.

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just like randy shannon

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My gut feeling is that Texas wants to make the safest hire possible (someone who already knows the landscape backward and forward), and that would be Mack Brown.

Let an Asst. AD handle finance, another Asst AD for rules compliance, and let Mack shake hands and kiss babies again.

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And that would be a great hire. Mack may have let the game slip past him, but he is great at glad-handing, which is something a program like texas needs more than anything else. He will let the big cigars be at the center of all hiring decisions and everyone will be happy.

Oliver Luck seemed to be the heir apparent, but a Texas alum named Jeff Hunt (I think that is his name) got in former UT President Bill Powers' ear and pushed Steve Patterson.

I think the current UT President (Greg Fenves) has decided that there's so much on his plate on the academic side that he's comfortable turning over the athletics department to the boosters.

This has happened before.

When Darrell Royal was nudged into retirement in 1976, he kept the athletics director position until 1981.

However, he was frozen out of the process of hiring his successor (he wanted his former DC, Mike Campbell) by Allan Shivers (former Texas governor) and Frank Erwin, who were on the board of regents.

Those regents instructed the then-UT president (a woman named Lorene Rogers) to tell the new coach, Fred Akers, that he should ignore Darrell Royal as his athletics director boss, and report to the big wigs instead.

That caused a huge rift that led to Fred Akers eventually getting run off by the other big wigs who thought Coach Royal got a raw deal.

While Royal remained AD for a few years after his football retirement, he had little to no control over the football program.

Royal was frozen out until Mack Brown cozied up to Coach Royal when Brown was hired in 1998. The Longhorn Family was back together after being splintered for over 20 years.