Houston Nutt? Kansas?!?

by cocknfire on Dec 7, 2009 8:15 PM EST in SEC Football

Tell me what I'm missing here.

Ole Miss football coach Houston Nutt is interested in the open Kansas job, Arkansas radio station KABZ-FM reported today, and The Star has learned that Nutt is on KU athletic director Lew Perkins' list and that Perkins and Nutt have talked about the job.

Why on earth would Houston Nutt leave a semi-successful rebuilding job at Ole Miss to coach at a basketball school in the Big XII? I mean, aside from things like an undiagnosed mental illness.

I'm not necessarily bashing Kansas. Okay, I am. But the real point is that Kansas is still on the road to consistent relevance, while Nutt appears to have Ole Miss there. Nutt is still just 52, so he would have time to turn the program around if he wanted to give it a try. I'm just trying to fathom the reasons he would want to give it a try after just two years in Oxford. Maybe they don't have open-records laws in Kansas; I'm not sure.

Obviously, we'll have much more on this in Sprints. Kansas ...

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My guess is that he's lobbying for a raise and an extension...

Wouldn’t be the first time.

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by Gamecock Man on Dec 7, 2009 9:24 PM EST reply actions

And likely not the last.

by dxf04 on Dec 7, 2009 10:45 PM EST up reply actions

Just to throw other ideas out there:

+ You can’t hit a moving target.

+ Reading tea leaves: Ole MIss may be due for a transition phase, given their seniors. The appearance of backward momentum would not play well in Oxford with the way the rest of the West is changing up.

+ Kansasians are far less stressful to deal with than Southerners when it comes to college football.

+ And other possibilities include erroneous reports of various forms. It’s the Star’s portion of the article that gives this any credence; I have very little trust in any Arkansas media regarding Nutt anymore. (Though not for a lack of stalkery.)

by David Hooper on Dec 8, 2009 8:27 AM EST reply actions

Paging Jimmy Sexton...

Nutt did this almost his entire tenure at Arkansas—it was one of the reasons for the tension between Nutt and Arkansas.

by jthomas666 on Dec 8, 2009 9:53 AM EST reply actions

Ding Ding Ding!

"So I want everybody to think here for a second, how much does this game mean to you? 'Cause if it means something to you, you can't stand still. You understand? You play fast! You play strong! You go out there and dominate the man you're playing against, and you make his ass quit! That's our trademark! That's our M.O.... as a team! That's what people know us as!" - Coach Nick Saban before the 2008 LSU game.

by 12NationalChampionships on Dec 8, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions