This is partly true, there is a lack of truly elite coaches in CFB. But therein lies the problem in the SEC. Everyone wants to hire the same 5-6 big name coaches, but all the big names are already making big bucks in a program that they are set in and are truly unlikely to leave.

No AD in the SEC (except Vandy) wants to give an up and comer a shot. Example? Jeff Brohm, WKU, was tearing it up.. no one in the SeC even interviewed him, so he took a crappy contract at Purdue and is making national level waves. Guess what? STILL no one in the SEC is paying attention to him, he has yet to be mentioned for a single hot-seat SEC job.

There are three or four more young coaches out there that haven't been considered either. This failure is on the ADs and so-called "search" committees.

Saban was not a household name when he was hired by LSU... it was looked at as a gamble at the time. Spurrier was not a high profile when he went from Duke to Florida. If I were an AD, I would go for a 40-something B coach for a low pay, high incentive limited buy out... roll the dice...contract. Brohm would have been a natural at LSU with the type of offense he runs. But...NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo... we had to have a down-de-bayou wild boy... geeeeezzzzz