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I'm starting to feel like time is working against us. OK, BB met him, pitched the job, wined and dined him, etc. Now he gives him some time to think about it, discuss it with the family, tell the team, all that jazz. Sometime in the next 24 hours, the pendulum starts to swing from the odds are heavily in our favor toward he and/or his family really don't want to take this and are looking for reasons to stay. I have read somewhere his daughter is in the 9th grade. Obviously she doesn't want to leave her friends and start high school in a strange new place. I don't like the way things are going now.

I look at it this way, he hasn't said no. Until that happens or we get an indication that it will, then you have to like our odds. The way everything has played out indicates that Alabama had good reason to wait for Marshall and make him the top priority in the search. We wouldn't do that if his side hadn't given us a good sign beyond "He'll listen." That said, I won't be feeling warm and fuzzy if we're sitting at this same spot on Thursday. Most of us assumed that things would be wrapped up by now and it was a "I'll come when the season is over" type of deal. Surely they knew this offer was coming for some time and had time to really consider a potential move to Alabama...so I hope this silence is more about them getting their ducks in a row instead of deliberating about how they don't want to leave Wichita for Tuscaloosa. The longer this goes, the more hesitant they appear.

If I have a concern about anything right now, its the possibility of them visiting and then turning us down. What a traiwreck that would be. We'd look like a bunch of idiots.

This post was edited on 3/31/15 at 12:39 pm