Coaching News

Houston Nutt to Ole Miss. That didn't take long.

Nebraska will announce Bo Pellini as their head coach betweeen 4:00 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. More than likely the players will be told tonight, the news will leak, and then they will anoounce it tomorrow after the whole country already knows. The delay comes in trying to put together Pellini's staff, which it looks like Tom Osbourne is largely responsible for. I'm not sure how much say Bo has in putting this staff together and you know how that usually turns out. Some say the main reason for the delay is trying to convince Buffalo head coach Turner Gill to be Nebraska's offensive coordinator. If all of this is true, then Osbourne has been working on this thing since he was hired and Nebraska may have been the team that knocked LSU out of the BCS title game by distracting its defensive coordinator. F@ck you Nebraska.

Arkansas has begun their coaching search and their leading candidates are:
Chris Peterson (Boise St.), Mike Leach (Texas Tech), and Lane Kiffin (Raiders, USC) (this one is surprising to me).

The rest of the long list: Bo Pellini, Jim Grobe (Wake Forest), Tubberville, Gary Patterson (TCU), Brent Venable (DC of Oklahoma), Tommy Bowden, Jim Leavitt, Brian Kelly (Cinncinnati), Kirk Ferenz, and Paul Johnson (Navy). Some of those are laughable. The others are very good and a little scary. Hopefully they make a crappy hire because Ole Miss will be competitive again with Nutt at the helm. We need at least one crappy team in the SEC West.