re: Realistic coaching candidates

Give me Chadwell, Smith, Lebby all day. And Cignetti could be an interesting hire, although I'm not sure he's quite ready for an SEC gig.

People will want someone "with SEC ties" or "coaching roots in the south" like it's still 1995 and there's no internet, social media, NIL, and transfer portal to work with that's completely changed recruiting.

You get an exciting hire with a winning brand and the recruits will come. Pretty sure Deion had zero ties to recruiting in Colorado, the West and Midwest and he completely flipped his roster with incoming additions. You get a great coach that knows how to do more with less and wins games first, the rest will fall into place.