Jim Harbaugh---He has done the college route twice in California and built a winner both times. Tough coach. I think the parity of the NFL is something that does not appeal to his football senses. He has no Texas roots but he has national name recognition which translates to recruiting success (plus UT is it's own magnet).
Gus Malzahn---He has won enough wherever he has been that there is a Malzahn Effect Auburn's Gus Malzahn spreading hurry-up, Wildcat through football - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
He is in the national title game in year one and he was the brains behind AU's title run with Cam Newton. He may be looking around because Auburn has to grind against the Alabama recruiting machine each year, and his recruiting base is surrounded by Georgia, Florida, FSU, the Mississippi schools and LSU, plus the omnipresent Crimson Tide. Texas would give him an incredible recruiting base. He has his roots in NW Arkansas and coached previously at Tulsa (as an OC to Todd Graham) and HC at Arkansas State.
David Shaw ---Stanford. He will come because you trade Stanford for Texas if you're a football man. Both schools have stiff academic standards so that will not be anything new for Shaw. Stanford won't match the money for cultural reasons.
I just don't see Art Briles standing across the field from a Baylor team next Fall. I can't see that happening. He's a religious fellow who may be more at home in Waco than Austin. Just my opinion.
I don't see Urban Meyer leaving his home state of Ohio for Texas. He left Florida because he got burned out coaching there. If you cannot take the heat in Florida, you have no business in the cauldron of Texas football.
Gus Malzahn---He has won enough wherever he has been that there is a Malzahn Effect Auburn's Gus Malzahn spreading hurry-up, Wildcat through football - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
He is in the national title game in year one and he was the brains behind AU's title run with Cam Newton. He may be looking around because Auburn has to grind against the Alabama recruiting machine each year, and his recruiting base is surrounded by Georgia, Florida, FSU, the Mississippi schools and LSU, plus the omnipresent Crimson Tide. Texas would give him an incredible recruiting base. He has his roots in NW Arkansas and coached previously at Tulsa (as an OC to Todd Graham) and HC at Arkansas State.
David Shaw ---Stanford. He will come because you trade Stanford for Texas if you're a football man. Both schools have stiff academic standards so that will not be anything new for Shaw. Stanford won't match the money for cultural reasons.
I just don't see Art Briles standing across the field from a Baylor team next Fall. I can't see that happening. He's a religious fellow who may be more at home in Waco than Austin. Just my opinion.
I don't see Urban Meyer leaving his home state of Ohio for Texas. He left Florida because he got burned out coaching there. If you cannot take the heat in Florida, you have no business in the cauldron of Texas football.
