re: UPDATE: Mike Irwin just said Malzahn is choice #1.

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Point being, people can look past A LOT when a HC is successful. I don't believe GM woukd have the success necessary.

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I'm in agreement this, and I think lots in the state are too and lots aren't.

I know what I'm getting with Gus and it will be around 7 wins each year... Bareley above what we have now. Perhaps with the right qb, he could hit a 10 win season, but overall I think it'd be somewhere in between Bert and Nutt. That's not exactly Bobby P in his prime. I also think we'd recruit about where we are now...probabaly around 25 every year, but with far more players from Texas and Arkansas. I do know that every single rock in the state would be turned over for talent, though.

Personally, I'd like to see what Kiffin could do here, and that's not a joke. He's an arse, yes but he could finally get us into the upper 15-17 or so of recruitng and I believe his offensive philosophy is actually a far more advanced than Gus's...especially now that Briles has given his influence.

I know there's probably about a 5 percent chance of Freshwater coming here and probably an 85-90 percent chance of Gus coming... If Long were still here though, I'd know there a 100 percent chance neither would be hired...