re: What are the odds we get Les Miles

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While Purdue, Minnesota, UVA, VT, etc. have all managed better hires

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Two issues with this:

1) It's no coincidence. The SEC West Meatgrinder isn't where an up and coming hotshot coach wants to make a name for himself. He is better doing that in the B10 or the ACC. Where he doesn't have Bama, Auburn, LSU etc in back to back weeks.

2) You are confusing Cause and Effect. Those guys aren't winning just because they are good coaches. They're winning because they're not in the SEC. Butch stomped dick at Cincinnati. Send him back there and he will probably stomp even more dick.

A good team in a weak conference is a great job. A bad team in the toughest conference in football is not a good job.

We have the least appealing job, on its merits, in the country. The ONLY thing we have going for us is being able to offer $4-5 million a year. But the coach that takes that contract is doing so thinking that it is the last major contract he will ever sign. That is the reason the buyouts are so big. $12-15 million buyouts? That's crazy. Until you realize that guys like Nutt, Freeze, Butch, Bert, O, etc may never sign another major deal after this one. Go 4-8 a couple of times and they will lynch you down here.

90% of the coaches out there see Ole Miss as a dead end job.