re: Question for you guys in the know

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and, believe it or not.. Les Miles

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Lol

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Good Lord folks, it doesn't take a genius to see that if Malzahn can only achieve what he has at Auburn with a much better recruiting base and higher expectations that we have here.. .how in the name of Beelzebub would he achieve the same or more with a lesser recruiting base and lesser expectations.

Please let go of the fricking moronic rope.

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Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm not sure what makes people so confident he'd win here any better than his 7-5 or 8-4 average at AU when we face the same competition, with less stars on our roster. It would be one thing if we couldn't get any better, but we easily, easily can.

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as for Leach... Razorbronks and I have different folks we get info from. Late last night I was told that Leaches rep was contacted by some of our BOT, NOT LONG... and that following that conversation, Long was brought in with some major doubts about going that direction, as were others.

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Sounds like we're hearing about the same, maybe filtered through each contact with a little of their personal bias/wishes thrown in like usual

Not really.

It's a simple as there are several different "camps" right now, "their guy" is being contacted Long's "guys" are being contacted. Through the process of elimination and compromise Long will again have to get the camps in his favor out numbering Gus's "guys".

Shouldn't be too hard as the most powerful and influential want nothing to do with him, but if it back fires on long because of who is "his guy" the your going to see him leave after the committee to search the plains high and low to find a replacement is announced.

The worst part about hiring Gus would be the job security he's demanding, it pales into comparison of Bert's reported and Nutt's actual golden parachutes. Gus's will have him easing into a nice retirement money wise.

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RazorBroncs... don't you think that this is mostly misinformation to do what Long does?

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I've thought it's possible from the jump, seeing as how I was googling Bret Bielema about 3 hours before he was officially announced

Long is very good about keeping this stuff close to the vest, but (just my opinion) I think he will and has been leaning on his confidants more with this one for a couple reasons. One, his last two "close to the vest" hires haven't exactly worked out; and two, in the event this one goes badly the blame falls on numerous people instead of him solely.

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It would be one thing if we couldn't get any better, but we easily, easily can.

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Absolutely we can.

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I love the Kiffin idea so much, but I also don't know how much he emphasizes a lot of those things. If Saban rubbed off on him enough, then absolutely bring him in.

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You Kiffin people have got to be shitting me with this "Saban rubbed off now him" and "he's matured" ridiculousness. He was fricking fired the week before the National Championship game. He's thrown potshots at Saban on twitter up to and including last week. He got publicly berated by Saban last year for blaming players for a bad play call. He completely shite the bed as the head coach of a blue blood, and his team was literally fighting in the locker room by the end of his tenure.

Just stop it with this tardville delusion about Kiffin growing up. He's always been an immature pompous arse and he always will be.

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He completely shite the bed as the head coach of a blue blood

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You mean two blue bloods.

Cannot believe anyone would suggest that little fricker for our job.

As much as I love me some freshwater. Not at Arkansas. It would be a disaster. Worst possible fit and guy that has been thrown out there.

Nutt would probably be a better choice.

stoops said "Arkansas is big time, and it is a big game"

Hence his nickname...

Maybe he said Brent Venables is the man you need to go after.

Lol

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He probably told him something that makes him believe he needs to have a damn good hire or it will back fire completely

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This is more what I'm gathering, and that UA has the financial and facilitative means to attract top-tier IF it's sold the right way. Basically he better land the right guy because there's zero excuse not to.