Kevin Wilson (OU OC) rumored to Mississippi State. Hopefully he takes OU DL coach Jackie Shipp with him as DC. Also hopefully it's the nail in the coffin for Bradford going pro.

Auburn updates and rumors:

Sportscenter just had Barkley saying he wants Auburn to hire Turner Gill because it's time Auburn and Alabama start doing what's right and stop trying to please all the rednecks down there.

CBS's Dennis Dodd said on the radio that Leach wants the job bad and has called Bobby Lowder (AU trustee) but that Jimbo Fisher is #1 and Auburn is prepared to buy him out.

Chris Low of ESPN.com said on the radio that basically Auburn screwed up big time and nobody is interested and that nobody will ever have the success Tuberville had, etc. (I think he is pvn from 2p2.)

Phillip Marshall (Auburn insider, runs Auburnundercover.com) insists that Nutt is still #1 and Jimbo #2.

I got all of this is from the Auburn message boards so TIFWIW (except the Barkley quote which is straight from the horse's mouth as always.)

Miss St boards are saying that they are hiring Kevin Wilson, the OC at OU.

Chris Low said today that Derek Dooley is the name to watch for the Auburn job. I just assumed they were giving him a token interview because of his family ties.

So... who's going to hire Tyrone Willingham? I hear he's available

Excellent.

I would love to see Mike Leach go into the SEC and pass 60 times a game.

Is fatty Weiss going to get fired?

Great hire for MSU. Dooley had better be a token interview for Auburn or I might have to agree with the Bama fans and say we're ****ed. But yeah, I can only assume that is a courtesy, along with Pat Nix and Rodney Garner (AU alums) who were both interviewed. If we told Mike Leach and Turner Gill we weren't interested and hired Derek Dooley, I might have to just give up being a football fan for awhile.

Probably no one b/c CFB is racist.

LOL I'm sure.

Those NY interviews had to be a smokescreen though. Dooley? Hoke? Todd Graham? No way. They already know who it is. It's Nutt, Fisher, Muschamp...somebody like that.

One thing I can't shake is how Fisher responded to the media about it. It was very Clinton-esque: http://www.dothaneagle.com/dea/sport...urn_job/50198/

If it's Nutt or Fisher it will kind of be like getting clothes for Christmas. They'd both be great fits at Auburn IMO, but wouldn't be all that exciting initially like Muschamp or Gill would.

I wasn't sure if this was a level or not initially, but now that I see the Seattle avatar, it has to be, right?

Houston Nutt would be an atrocious hire. Compare his record vs. Tubberville while he was at Arky.

Looks like Mullen is the pick at MSU. Not nearly as high on him as I would have been on Wilson.

4thFilm- Maybe I'm just a bigger fan than most. Nutt seems like he has gotten better and better as a coach over the years. He killed it at Ole Miss this year. It would not be an exciting hire though, for sure.

Nutt is 3 years removed from back to back losing seasons. He is a terrible/lazy recruiter and you can look at Ole Miss's current class to emphasize my point. Petrino's first two classes are better than any of Nutt's 10 classes, so it's not like he couldn't recruit here, he just didn't.

Yeah, I'm not going to defend Nutt too much because he wouldn't be on my short list either. I have no idea about his recruiting. I've just always sort of liked him. Maybe that's because he does so well against Auburn.

What do you guys think of Mullen to MSU? One MSU guy is saying that he got it over Wilson because Mullen was willing to come now and Wilson refused to come before the MNC game. It's hard for me to look at UF's offense and think anything other than "Wow Tebow and Harvin are good." Gator fans?

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I hope that Mullen coaches the mNC game. I haven't really been WOWed by his play calling in the past but it'd be silly to screw with our success at this point. I'd be perfectly fine with him leaving after the mNC game (well, I'd be somewhat disappointed but not heart broken). I hope he pulls a pelini and is allowed to coach here for one last game.

I would be surprised if Mullen didn't coach the MNC game but Billy Gonzalez(WR coach) is a hot OC commodity and wouldn't miss a beat with him + Urban getting together to call plays. We'll be fine. Mullen pisses me off quite a bit, including the Alabama game. I do give him credit for being firm about throwing it a lot in the rain vs FSU.

As for Mullen, I kind of think MSU could do better. He's still has just very limited experience at OC and has had problems during his tenure at UF. He's also the QB coach for Tebow who still has the weird throwing motions. Wilson > Mullen IMO.

I would be more worried about Charlie Strong if he left before the MNC game. I've read the rumor both ways today:
-O'Leary is getting fired & Charlie Strong is the #1 candidate
-O'Leary is being retained

Miss. ST reporting that Mullen is staying through the bowl game.

I'd expect Florida to replace Mullen with Billy Gonzalez. If Strong leaves, McCarney(DL) is a strong possibility if he doesn't get a HC position. Chris Carter(vikings yes him, HS south FL Coach) could be a potential WR coach replacement.

Very happy with the Mullen choice. Then again, anyone with any type of offensive background works for me.

We will see how he does recruiting wise which is always going to be the hard part in Starkvegas.

Haha, Florida is going to get their karma for making fun of Richt getting the Georgia job before the 2000 MNC (also against OU) and laying an egg.

meh, it won't matter too much at the end of the day. I'm happy he's sticking around for the game.

Reports are saying that Holtz turned down the Cuse. They should really try and get Turner Gill now.

New Mexico getting Locksley is a really good hire

surprised Locksley took it... I thought he would hold out for a Syracuse, lower BCS conference type job

Locksley is a sick hire.

Mullen...not so much. Our top 2 recruits were just asked about Mullen leaving and they said "what does he coach?". Mullen is NOT a recruiter, which is a big mistake for MSU.

Strong remains to be the #1 guy if UCF fires O'Leary but he has a HUGE buyout.