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Coaches that I think are there for the taking?

Rhodes - would be a good get for anybody, anywhere.
Solich - Got fired from Nebraska for winning a whole bunch, now he has Ohio winning a bunch. Good coach.
Strong - improving Louisville steadily. Good coach.
Patterson - TCU is a good gig, but they cant throw bigger money at him that some of the other schools.

Cant go wrong with anyone here IMO. What would these guys do with top talent?

Patterson is underrated and is a better coach than most that are named on this thread. At the right school he would be a big winner. He is detail oriented, is a nuts and bolts coach, a great talent evaluator and works harder than about anyone. I know his peers including Stoops appreciate and fully understand how good he is. In many ways he is the anti Mack Brown. Brown sees himself as a CEO and over the years has contributed even less and less to the actual coaching effort. Skipio may be right that he is actually more of a distraction for his players and assistants than a contributor. Patterson is involved in everything and takes ownership in everything. He is much more like Saban, Muschamp, Stoops and Snyder than he is like Brown.

Unfortunately I can't see him ever coaching here. The Jones's that matter are obsessed with image, and he doesn't present the polish they covet. I fear the Muschamp opportunity was an anomaly and Mack's eventual replacement will be another CEO, another talker and/or pretty boy.

J Frank...........you sure are not acting very "friendly" this afternoon.

Hot seat check: Paul Pasqualoni

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In one and a half seasons with the Connecticut Huskies, Paul Pasqualoni has gone 8-12, 3-7 in the Big East. They've lost three in a row, most recently a 40-10 rout at the hands of Syracuse, a team that is only 2-4 against FBS opponents. There's a growing desire among UConn fans for Pasqualoni to be fired at the end of the year. ESPN.com Big East blogger Andrea Adelson is not among that group, but she can't deny that things look bad for the Huskies coach:
- Vince Verhei

Andrea Adelson
Things getting worse for Pasqualoni
"I have not and will not advocate for a coach losing his job. I make a note when coaches are on the hot seat, but ultimately the final decision rests in the hands of the school's administration. That being said, Pasqualoni has underperformed. I had UConn as a sleeper team this season, so I thought there would be improvement but this team looks worse now than last year. And last season looked pretty bad."

Can Cardinals keep Strong?

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The good news for the Louisville Cardinals is that they are 7-0 and 16th in the BCS standings. The bad news for the Louisville Cardinals is that they are 7-0 and 16th in the BCS standings. The more this team wins, the more attention teams are going to pay to coach Charlie Strong, and that increases the odds of a bigger program coming in to poach Strong after the season.

"With each win, Strong's name keeps moving up the list of potential candidates to fill impending SEC coaching vacancies," writes ESPN.com national writer Ryan McGee.

Worse, if rumors start to spread that Strong could skip town, that could cost the Cardinals wins this season. "I don't care who you are," one SEC coach tells McGee. "That's a huge distraction. And the history of Big East guys jumping ship is pretty well-written."

BTW, South Carolina/Spurrier can put the final nail in another Tennessee head coach today IMO.

Texas A&M will beat up Auburn and speed up the process IMO.

I think it helps that Trooper Taylor's son is on the same team.