I'd actually be more worried about this one...

Tulsa has fired Kevin Wilson.

There’s probably a few of the G-5 jobs that might be appealing to Albin, do any of you think there’s a real possibility of Albin Getting P-4 looks if he keeps winning this year? Just wondering for a friend.

I've been as critical of Albin's molasses offense as anyone (maybe more than anyone), but this season he has shown the ability to adapt. Maybe it's all Brian, who knows, but OU is currently 3rd in the MAC in points scored. It's not like we're not putting up points. We just had to adapt to the fact we have a two-headed monster at RB, and a below average passing attack. And we did adapt. And look at that - we're at the top of the MAC again.

If Albin goes - Tulsa would be a real possibility - I think we have to lock in Brian. He's just 44. He's got a swagger. He's well-spoken. He's got the resume. (OC at Hawaii, OC at Washington State, now at OU for 3 seasons). Though I do love Spense, I think he's happy to be at a bigger program and will wait that out, but there are only 130 of these jobs so who knows.

Here are my thoughts on this. The head coach is one of many members of the coaching team. His single most important function is choosing the assistants he works with, and a head coach can't succeed without being good at that. Ohio has had very good years the last three years, and that is a credit, not only to Albin, but also to his ability to choose and coordinate a good staff. If you were to lose Albin, but retain the rest of the staff, things should continue to be successful, so long as you pick a good person from among his staff. Since they are winning, we can be sure that there are probably several good people on the staff.

Now, the argument for hiring from outside comes down to one word, "Knorr". In that case, the transition was not successful. Why did that not work, while the transition to Albin was successful? I would argue that it was not specific to Knorr, but rather, to the situation at the time. Knorr was not a bad coach, and he continues to coach today, and is currently the Defensive Coordinator at Air Force. However, Grobe essentially took his entire staff with him to Wake Forest. That left Knorr as, not only a first time head coach, but also a coach without a staff, and without continuity.

If Albin leaves, no doubt he will want to take some members of his staff with him. If he leaves a solid core of the staff behind, they have an excellent chance of picking up where Albin left off. If he takes most of the staff, then hiring from outside begins to make more sense because, whoever is chosen, they will have to build a new staff and new systems.

Well,let's say we promote Brian Smith. Let's say Albin promotes S. Isphording to OC at Tulsa and keeps Hauser at DC in a higher paying DC position at Tulsa. Now Smith promotes Allen Rudolph and Kurt Mattix to OC and DC at Ohio as higher paid positions at Ohio. We have at this point kept 3 of the staff. Who else are we going to keep? Most of the rest will probably take the same position coach job at Tulsa or go somewhere else. We may keep a few more and maybe promote a GC to position coach but Smith would be looking to replace most of the staff like Knorr was in all probability.

You are assuming that the staff, at least a chunk of them wouldn’t go with Tim. Then you have exactly what you had with Knorr. And Knorr’s biggest problem is Tom Boeh hired most of Brian’s staff for him.

You have know idea how bad that situation was!

We returned 18 of 22 starters on both sides of the ball. The Coordinator was from Illinois and got fired, Boeh snapped him up and hired him. Hell, he didn’t even run the same defense we had installed under Grobe and Knorr. It was bad. The locker room was lost quick with the assistants not being anything like the players were used too. The original DB coach didn’t make it through spring ball because his wife hated Athens and he quit in the middle of practice that first spring.

UNC has fired Mack Brown.

No, he was a bad coach because he was a poor leader.

A few years ago during an Ohio at Akron game I was chatting with a U of A staffer. The subject of stadium maintenance came up. I asked what the annual debt load was on their stadium. Without hesitating he said, "Six million."

Mora is making upwards of 1.7 mil. This says they have interest in him, is that mutual?