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[CB4]

So is anyone actually buying any of this or is it just Sexton doing “Jimmy Sexton things” to solidify CKD’s position in Tuscaloosa?

Ruhle and Elko have already gotten extensions based on their names floated as State Penn candidates.

Why not CKD?

Temperature check: Why one huge name is heating up for Penn State’s coaching search

James Franklin has found his new home, but Penn State is still searching for its long-term head coach.

www.pennlive.com

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

If CKD goes, he goes. It’s still an attractive job. I hope we don’t give him a raise!

 

[CB4]

If CKD goes, he goes. It’s still an attractive job. I hope we don’t give him a raise!

Agreed. I hope Byrne is smarter than that.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

So is anyone actually buying any of this or is it just Sexton doing “Jimmy Sexton things” to solidify CKD’s position in Tuscaloosa?

Ruhle and Elko have already gotten extensions based on their names floated as State Penn candidates.

Why not CKD?

Temperature check: Why one huge name is heating up for Penn State’s coaching search

James Franklin has found his new home, but Penn State is still searching for its long-term head coach.

www.pennlive.com

I don't buy it. I think the chance of CKD leaving Bama for Penn State is close to zero. When I keep reading these kinds of articles I have to question if there are really any serious discussions going on with some of these candidates. I'm beginning to think it's just some sportswriter fantasizing about who they'd like to see as the next PSU coach.

 

[CB4]

I don't buy it. I think the chance of CKD leaving Bama for Penn State is close to zero. When I keep reading these kinds of articles I have to question if there are really any serious discussions going on with some of these candidates. I'm beginning to think it's just some sportswriter fantasizing about who they'd like to see as the next PSU coach.

I listen to all this stuff about the Kiffin Sweepstakes between Ole Miss, LSU and Florida. With the kind of contracts being mentioned (10 yrs and in excess of $15 million annually), you have to think these AD’s believe that Lane is “a slam dunk hire”.

But is he? He might be the closest, but still I have questions.

Sumrall, Drink, Brohm, Lea, Key among others mentioned for various jobs are good coaches for sure. But as fan for one of these teams involved with one of these openings, would you be actually “over the moon” thrilled with one of these guys? Especially at a $10 million price tag for some?

 

[JustNeedMe81]

I don't buy it. I think the chance of CKD leaving Bama for Penn State is close to zero. When I keep reading these kinds of articles I have to question if there are really any serious discussions going on with some of these candidates. I'm beginning to think it's just some sportswriter fantasizing about who they'd like to see as the next PSU coach.

This rumor was started by a Penn St writer and it spread like a wildfire with nothing to back it up.

 

[RollTide-YNWA]

Prior to Nick Saban, LSU’s last national championship was won in 1958.

Always kills me when people act like LSU has always been a big rival of Alabama's. They were little more than middle-of-the-road until Saban came along.

 

[BearFoot]

Jimmy Sexton and agents like Jimmy Sexton are vultures. They are what's wrong with college football.

There’s irony to be found in the fact that someone named “Buzzard” is condescendingly referring to someone else as a “Vulture”

 

[teamplayer]

So is anyone actually buying any of this or is it just Sexton doing “Jimmy Sexton things” to solidify CKD’s position in Tuscaloosa?

Ruhle and Elko have already gotten extensions based on their names floated as State Penn candidates.

Why not CKD?

Temperature check: Why one huge name is heating up for Penn State’s coaching search

James Franklin has found his new home, but Penn State is still searching for its long-term head coach.

www.pennlive.com

This is almost as big a scam as Washington politics. The game of college football has crashed and burned, so people are trying to grab all the cash they can before this turd of a product is flushed down the tubes.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

There’s irony to be found in the fact that someone named “Buzzard” is condescendingly referring to someone else as a “Vulture”

We're "light skinned " and vultures are just plain ugly.

 

[RdunawayTX]

At least we've moved this thread away from "Saban to LSU." Now we're discussing "CKD to XXX," which is only slightly less ridiculous. First, CKD isn't going voluntarily. "You don't leave Alabama to go somewhere else." Second, he's not going to get a contract extension or raise from the PTB until he shows consistent improvement and national title hunt abilityl

 

[arthurdawg]

At least we've moved this thread away from "Saban to LSU." Now we're discussing "CKD to XXX," which is only slightly less ridiculous. First, CKD isn't going voluntarily. "You don't leave Alabama to go somewhere else." Second, he's not going to get a contract extension or raise from the PTB until he shows consistent improvement and national title hunt abilityl

Overall... CKD has done a solid job. I think we'd all like to see him finish the year strong and the FSU game was a bad loss and Okie was painful, but you are going to lose to teams in the top ten occasionally. Fact of life even under Saban.

We have the best team culture in years, bad apples are mostly gone, kids are working hard and playing hard. We are recruiting like crazy and have a solid group of younger guys coming up.

Patch up some holes and develop OL and RB into a credible running threat and we will be very good indeed. And I do think CKD and the staff are aware of the issues and working towards solutions now and for the future.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

At least we've moved this thread away from "Saban to LSU." Now we're discussing "CKD to XXX," which is only slightly less ridiculous. First, CKD isn't going voluntarily. "You don't leave Alabama to go somewhere else." Second, he's not going to get a contract extension or raise from the PTB until he shows consistent improvement and national title hunt abilityl

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