re: CFB Head Coach Rankings (Athlon Sports)

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Problem with getting him is he has a $7 million buyout if he leaves after this season.

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I know. He turned things around at Iowa State last year, turning a doormat into a team that beat Oklahoma and TCU. Then they signed him to a new deal. I wish we had hired him after Miles was let go. I've thrown his name out several times on this board even before the Athlon article was posted. Turned down job offers from Belichick and Urban Meyer to be a HC.

He is the kind of rising star your AD has to have the foresight to nab when the time is right. But that takes some actual work to identify and go after guys like him. That is how you hire your next great HC, not by paying out the nose for a guy like Jimbo and certainly not by throwing in the towel on someone like O. I doubt Alleva even knows who he is though, with the exhaustive search he did and all.