re: The Official Coaching Search Thread- updates in OP

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Level 1. Chip Kelly, Saben, Urban Meyer, Bill Bellicheck, Gary Patterson, Mark Dantonio

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- Chip Kelly might not be available. If he is even fired from the Eagles, So Cal will go all in for him. His recruiting network is west coast, so I would expect him to take that job.

- Saban...maybe if Holtz and Spurrier give him a ZJ, a membership to Augusta, and they bet him he couldn't win the NC here.

- Urban, I think he's osu for life or until they get caught up in a scandal where they have to fire him.

- Bellichek, I don't think he would be the best recruiter.

- Gary Patterson, if we don't at least ask, we're doing this all wrong. Our of all the guys in Level 1, he may actually be he most realistic at this point in time, and even then, it's not a good shot.

- Mark Dantonio, we all know the info, he's going to get a call, we'll see what he says. Probably almost as likely as Patterson.

- Gruden, everybody says his name for all schools when they have a vacancy. He gets paid a lot of money though by ESPN for just saying what he thinks. I don't know if he'll ever coach again.

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Level 2. Herman, Kirby Smart, Mark Stoops, Dave Doeren, Doc Holliday (keeps rising his stock,)

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I think we could get any of these guys.

Herman - Pro's are that his team/offense is an elite level, he's a good recruiter, young, energetic and hungry. Con's are his defenses aren't great, he's only been a HC for 1 season,

Smart - Pro's, defenses would be great in a year or 2, big name recruiter, can build successful staffs around him at least on defense. Con's are he hasn't been a HC before.

M. Stoops - Pro's are kent is #2 in the SECe right now, he did that at kentucky.... Good recruiter, beat us out for several guys we wanted. Con's, took him several years to get to this point, he still has a losing record after 3 seasons. However, if he has a similar record to Fuente at the end of the year, wouldn't Stoops be more impressive?

Doreon started this season hot, but lost his last 2 games. He has a Top10 Defense, but they've only played 2 decent teams. He took a team from 3-9 his first year to 8-5 and now he's at 4-2. He also beat us out for some recruits we wanted the past couple years.

Holliday - He keeps winning games. He's from the Urban Meyer coaching tree and was UF's recruiting Coordinator when they were winning the BCS's. He's older now though. If he was 10 years younger, he would be my #1 choice at Level 2.