This search should put to bed some rumors once and for all that come up with every search:

"We don't need to fire our current coach to start having conversations about his replacement". If this was true, everyone know Chad was a dead man walking for weeks, then why did "the search" take so long?

I saw people both saying "the BOT is taking this hire over" and "trust HY, this is his hire, just like basketball". The fact is, people that say this shite know nothing. They are projecting their own wishful thinking as fact

"We're going to bust open the Walmart/Tyson piggy bank on this one"

Biddy or anyone else in Arkansas knows anything more than the average fan. Anyone on this board who pretends to be secretive about sources also doesn't know shite

"ok, underwhelming hire, but we're going to open the piggybank for assistants"

"We're going to hire a CEO type coach." They're all CEOs. Look up what a CEO does sometime if you still don't get why this is so ignorant.

No leaks means we're running a tight ship. It truly means no one knows shite, but that doesn't mean there's shite to know.

"We have to hire someone with a winning record". Turns out, we hired one that's 0-0.

"Smokescreen". Jesus people, we aren't putting up smokescreens. Coaches or ADs may change their minds before offers are signed, but we aren't feeding misinformation. This is just dumb

"We need to establish recruiting ties in Texas". This shite is worn out. No matter what areas coaches say they're going to start emphasizing, every school is largely defined by its historic draw areas, which for us includes Texas. UA gets dozens of kids from every school in DFW. Its not like only the non-athletes at these schools know how to use the interconnected web of computers ("Internet") to learn about schools outside the state. Once they've heard of our school, we're part of a huge list they evaluate for "best chance to get to the NFL". No matter who we hire will be pounding pavement in Texas, and we will be a familiar name, if not a familiar face. Doesn't mean his birth certificate has to say "TEXAS" for him to succeed there