I think a few names come up. You can look at guys like Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh. They've been in the NFL before. Saban may have left Miami with a bad taste in it's mouth though so I don't know if the NFL owners forgive and forget that kind of thing. Harbaugh's success with Big Blue in Michigan is impressive. We know he can coach a team to a Superbowl. He had success with two different QBs and is honestly responsible for Alex Smith's revival in the NFL. Then I think you can start looking at other guys like David Shaw from Stanford and Urban Meyer from Ohio State. He was under Jim Harbaugh there before he left for San Francisco. And he's another guy that's been in the NFL before as an assistant coach and he's just a very young and bright minded head coach. I think he'd be a great coach here actually. Urban Meyer just seems to have success wherever he goes. I don't know if that makes him a good candidate for the NFL but at some point he may make the jump up. Then you can look at some sleeper coaches like Kirk Ferentz from Iowa who was seeing his name thrown around here a few years ago as a head coach candidate. He's done some good things in Iowa. And then my last coach would be someone like Les Miles. This a coach that just got fired from LSU despite being a pretty effective coach there. He just came up a little short here and there by better football teams. Les could be a good option. LSU has continuously churned out NFL talent year in and year out through the drafts. So he obviously knows how to get his talent coached up.

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