When O was hired, who were the other "hot names"?

Fuente was a pretty popular one, Norvell might’ve been as well.

Larry Fedora, Mike Gundy

Leach

All we heard the whole fall was Jimbo and Herman

It’s kind of funny how SW has changed coaching searches…any coach is a candidate now it used to only be coaches at lesser programs or assistants.

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Fuente was a pretty popular one, Norvell might’ve been as well.

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Fuente was since he got VT into the ACC CG in his first year, but he had a good sized buyout (for the time, at least). Norvell was in year 1 at Memphis and didn’t start to get some traction in the rumor mill until the next year.

It was actually a pretty lackluster group beyond Herman and Jimbo. Mullen and Larry Fedora were talked about a lot, as both were near their peaks at UNC and State. I remember a few people here were shilling hard for Bobby P, as this was before he went back to Louisville and put that program in a deep hole.

ETA: I do remember Gundy’s name mentioned some. He ended up being the better than most of the others mentioned.

It was pretty much Jimbo said no then Herman played us so Alleva freaked out and there a fit and hired Orgeron

There were a lot of pictures of Larry fedora with his shirt off on the coaching changes board that year

Dude was ripped

Kelly

I actually wanted to take a swing at Lincoln Riley. It was right before Stoops left and he took over as HC.