I think they had and have more legitimacy than ascribed above.
One obvious point: does anyone believe that Scott Cowen just woke up one morning and said "let's spend $10 mill on a football coach"?

DrBox...Monken took his name "off the board"...Freeze...Hudspeth...Haywood....Burton Burns...Lionel Washington...look like the choices if Leach turns Tulane down...for my bucks, hire the Coach at Northern Illinois Did he take his name off the board? Or was it the issue with the "timi...

I think Slatten's responses have been very telling as far as the situation goes. He obviously thought we were going to make a splash and he obviously is not ecstatic about the direction this thing has taken. Just a couple of weeks ago we had people telling us about all these great candidates that w...

Word out of Hawaii, no leak of a coach yet. RD laying low and quiet. Tier 2 - 3 now seems more likely. Apparently no one worth while seems to want this job. Similiar to the last searches in football and basketball. I wouldn't trust the dynamic duos either. Sad when you've got big money in hand and ...

What are these guys talking about?

Anyway, they have a game to play and win.

golfnut69 wrote:Sader.. I doubt that Manny will end up at Tulane...Mack will not allow that to happen..besides...Mack is on hs way out of Austin and Manny is in line for the job

Where do you get this idea that Mack Brown doesn't like Tulane? You've intimated it a couple of times

I like all of ur suggestions OUG. I just get the feeling that if it isn't Leach it will be a 3rd yier candidate because of this self imposed deadline. Scelfo didn't have near the credentials of our 2nd tier candidates (your list) nor most of out 3rd tier. Hr was hired because his brother, a signific...

Houton Nutt is an insanely bad choice....very poor recruiter who lost his fire.. Come on Rick dickson.

Anyoone notice how our search seems to exclude working head coaches in FBS

I hope has our new coach locked up and I hope and it needs to be a tier 1 or 2 coach.

If he's going to introduce a 3rd teir Jagz or Lionel, then he better get ready for the fire that's about to come

OUG wrote:
Tier 3 is probably Jags, Haywood.

We'll probably keep adding names to Tier 2 though, before we get to tier 3.

We better.
They'll have a riot if we hire one of those 2.

torbida wrote:Nobody wants this job unless they're a hasbeen like Turdledo or some div-2 Nawthun coach.Maybe the sport for next fall is to watch Dickson and his suckazz rep as AD continue the spiral down the hole.

That's nonsense. We didn't want to wait for Monken. It better be for a good reason.

Gundy may have wanted him to stay on through the bowl game. They'll have a great shot at being in a high profile BCS game. That makes sense... I'm sure Gundy told him that once some big program hires Sumlin or Fedora at some point in December, UH and USM will be all about paying top dollar for the ...

RobertM320 wrote:
Regarding Stoops as DC: Can you really focus on defense in CUSA? The conference is designed to outscore other people. Is there anyone who wins consistently in CUSA because of defense?

Yes you can; that's how you become elite and raise your level: by playing defense.

Stop it.
You're killing me.

We don't want Rick Dickson on that plane tomorrow....unless he's a miracle worker and got Leach, Beckman or Monken wrapped up sight unseen.

galvezwave wrote:
Must be something to it, this guys freaked out completely

Yep.

Did they talk to any of you guys? No one talked to me. What part of the local fan base has said they'd rally around Todd Monken? Oh, damn. Don't tell me they talked to one of the Mackel twins. Geesh. That site has been good with TU information. For a normal fanbase of a C-USA school, an OC from a t...

With names like Monken and others being considered, how much should it matter that these guys can't start working full time for TU until the 2nd week of January? . Not much; he can get his recruiters rolling and do some recruiting himself. If we limit ourselves to guys available now, we would seem ...

NOLABigSteve wrote:That's the problem though... Who in the hell is Monken? No name recognition at all IMO.

Other than Leach, we seem to have no on left with name recognition.

Northshore Wave wrote:

galvezwave wrote:Monken is interesting. Fedora yyyyyeah good luck with that. Butch is just too dirty. Can't see it.

If we can't get Leach I would be very happy with Monken.

+1

Haywood is not next in line after Leach, nor is any other MAC coach. Move on from that. Haywood has real baggage, unlike RR and ML who had faux-baggage. Who are our next in line? Please don't say Curtis Johnson or Lionel. What about sitting coaches like 3 sunbelt coaches (Hudspeth, Freeze and Tagga...

New Jersey's point is a good one. What interesting name has the search firm turned up for us?

Your list is compiled from media reports. Period. Just point that out to everyone and then yall can carry on with the sky is falling rhetoric if you must. I hope you're right - we'll find out. The good news is that if we really are looking at fresh, exciting names, we should have one as football co...

wave to em wrote:I was only 8 at the time but from what I understand, cowen took over in 99 right? What Happend to the last president?

Eamon Kelly retired.
I believe that Cowen was at TU during 1998.

In my opinion if Dickson heads to Hawaii without a coach we should show up at his house with pitchforks. If a trip to Hawaii with a 2-10 team is more important than the future of the program to someone, that someone shouldnt be AD. If we dont offer the exact same thing to Leach we have the 2 stupid...