WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE HUD SO MUCH??!?

He was a good recruiter here, he had early success at a G5, cheated (he knew what Saunders was when he hired him), and then the whole thing fell apart. Spends one year here where he doesn't do anything of note.

I think 5% of his love is that he's a State guy who's less likely to leave us if he has success, 20% is that he's the only name they know and they like ot pretend they're plugged in to the cfb world, and 70% is that people thought he'd be good when he left for ULL and since then hasn't bothered to reevaluate that opinion. Only 5% is that people genuinely thought it all through and still think he'd be the best coach for us.

Like yeah he's a State guy and he's less likely to leave us than most other coaches. But 1) that doesn't mean he wouldn't leave, and 2) he's not an X's and O's guy. You'd have to have a DC AND and OC. And continuity on offence is a heck of lot more important than on D... all those years of new DCs and Sirmon was the only one who produced a bad D. Mullen leaves and even a slight change in offence results in a disaster.

We can't pay our coaches enough to keep them as is. You really want to add in the need for an OC? Then if he's good he'll get poached (by Bama or to be an HC), and we've got to find a new quality OC that runs the same system, which rules out 4/5 OCs. It would be a disaster, especially with how hard it is for us to recruit quality skill players that can excel with talent alone.

Hud is Matt Luke. Yeah the fanbase knows him and had a good opinion of him and he's very loyal and knows MS recruiting... but at the end of the day he's not an SEC HC.