re: Bama fans: any idea on who the "contingency plan" is?

Thanks for the correction. I actually meant in the sense that Michigan knew what it wanted to do in naming Sherrone Moore quickly after Harbaugh's departure or Ryan Day at Ohio State following Urban Meyer. Granted, no assistant coach on the Alabama staff was qualified to be head coach, but the AD should have been better prepared and being ready with a short list of elite coaches to target. I cannot believe that Kalen DeBoer would have been on such a list. His success was based at Sioux Falls, Fresno State, and only wo years at Washington. Ideally, Alabama should have done much more to keep Sarkasian and have him ready to step in when Saban left. Then it would have been a smooth transition rather than the loss of key players and recruiting jeopardized.