Landry has good info but he can also have some disdain with dealing with individual insiders with opposite information. Can come off arrogant with his opinion and will not change his stance even in the face of multiple good insiders with conflicting information. Likes to pop off with how much of an insider he is, getting info from both sides, etc. But with all that info he hardly breaks any of the coaching searches before anyone else. But loves to break down "what really happened" after the fact and can be harsh if he feels one side screwed up or like in the LSU case really went after their administration. Roasted them for spinning the Jimbo and Herman turning them down. He also didn't lead with Oregeron getting LSU HC job but used good logic about what was happening in real time. When Herman was leaked as being named LSU coach, he along with several on this board at the time, said it was the agent trying to spur Texas into making a move or else he was going to LSU. Well no kidding, that wasn't exactly soothsaying.
He is connected and gets some good info and his experience allows him to make good educated guesses. Many speculated Frost was on Oregon's short list, him included but that was never the case and Frost removed himself immediately. He never knew Fleck was not an option for Oregon and not sure he ever had him as a candidate. He did say he didn't think McElwain was going to go there but claimed that if he did Stricklin was going to likely pull Mullen to Florida. Well a lot of people from the outside would make that connection and be wrong as long as Foley is still around. Mullen and Foley (and make no mistake their issues in the past were on both of them) don't get along. A lot of what he does is using 1st and 2nd degree seperation and infer what is happening. His connections are good enough that his guesses are better than many and he does get info right but not necessarily any sooner than many of other sites writers or national media. I've seen him then use the, he had to sit on the info but knew about it days ago. Maybe he did but we've all read enough message boards that we have that used as a deflection as to not really having info that much in advance of others. Nearly everything he is really accurate about is info that many have.
He has also had issues with plagiarism in the past with his blog and got busted and fired from the sports company he was with at the time. Not sure what the final settlement happened on that. He was also fired as a scout with the Titans I believe for selling their scouting reports to other teams or selling his services while under contract. Something like that. His trustworthiness is short to say the least and he has a schtick to drive his site hits.
