re: Call your shot: who will the DC hire ACTUALLY be?

Yeah, coaches talk for sure. And I think they are more interwoven that a lot of people realize. Coaches hop jobs to move up the ladder and to get to this level, they cross paths in a million different ways not even counting conferences and the like.

For instance, just vs ASU:

- Sumlin and Graham faced off three times in CUSA when Graham was at Tulsa and Sumlin obviously at Houston. But they also squared off in 2007 when Sumlin was the co-OC at OU.
- in 2008, Jake Spavital was an OCQ for Graham and prepped Tulsa to play Sumlin's UH (the OC on that Tulsa team was Gus Malzahn btw)
- in 2009, Spav was a GA for UH and prepped them to face Graham's Tulsa
- in 2010, Spav was a GA for OSU when they played Graham's Tulsa
- in 2011, Spav was QB coach for WVU who played Graham's Pitt
- last year, Christensen was OC for Utah as they took on ASU. I don't know but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if they squared off somewhere during his Mizzou tenure
- this past off-season, Graham hired Shawn Slocum, son of RC and former A&M assistant who worked with Sumlin at A&M during his first tenure

The coaches in this game have a host of history and wealth of knowledge on each other. But they've also worked with, are friends with, talk frequently with, other coaches that have coached both with and against each other. It's going to be really tough to surprise each other. And this isn't even an inbred conference game