Arki and it is not close. Pittman is sort of an average hire I guess but Odom is rock solid as DC! People may not like the name “Briles” but he can call some ball plays, and by all indications most all of the bad stuff that went down at Baylor was his father’s doing... Kind of not fair that he has been tied so closely to it and seemingly somewhat penalized for it. It is hard to believe Kendal did not have some knowledge/ some hand in what went down at Baylor- but he has only been accused of saying some Inappropriate things to recruits and he was never directly implicated or proven to have done much of anything wrong. He seems to be one Hell of a good OC..
I do not have any faith in the Mizzou hire- Drinkowitz inherited a great team at App St and only kept them on the rails for one season right? Never had to rebuild a program, start from scratch and recruit at an SEC level... I mean MAYBE it works out?? Seems like a long shot to me.
my thoughts on Lane have been well documented in dozens of posts in threads people made on here calling for him to be our coach. I think any major program who hires him is absolutely insane and gambling with their program’s integrity to get a guy who has only had some success of any sort of consistency at one of four head coaching gigs? What is so appealing about this guy? He is a lying, cheating, pos whiney cry baby who only got into coaching because his dad was in the profession, knew people and jumped on staffs with him to help him get a leg up. He does not deserve this shot, he should still be radioactive to any honorable program and the fact they snapped him up only further proves how thin the available candidates were this year. He is going from a cream puff conference into the most difficult division of the hardest conference in CFB and taking over a team that is not one of the perennial powers. How is he going to compete with Bama, LSU, Auburn and TAMU? He is NOT going to. 6-6, 7-5 seasons are about all they can hope for- baring some blatant cheating, which we know Ole Miss is not opposed to so maybe that is the plan, they certainly hired the right man to carry it out if it is. I expect either failure if they stay within the rules or a massive scandal and sanctions soon after if they cheat again like they did with Freeze. JMHO