Wishful thinking guys (go ahead, swipe right)
David Reeves, defensive coordinator at UAB: Bottom line, the man can coach defense. His Blazers ranked fifth in the country in total defense coming into the weekend and had given up fewer than nine points per game in Conference USA as the season finale approached. He’s loyal, having proven just that when he stayed on at UAB after the school mothballed the program and then took two years off trying to rebuild it.
Billy Gonzales, co-offensive coordinator/running backs at Florida: A former player at Colorado State and a native of Thornton, Colo., he coached under Urban Meyer (looks good on the resume, right?) with stops in the Big Ten, SEC and Mountain West. He’s never been a head coach and, at 47, may be looking for a shot.
Kodi Burns, co-offensive coordinator/ wide receivers coach at Auburn: He’s young (29) and has never been a head coach, but the buzz surrounding this former Auburn star is real. His name repeatedly pops up as one of those next-big-thing coaching prospects, but with the Tigers having dropped out of the national polls he may have fallen off some teams’ radar.
Chad Glasgow, defensive coordinator at TCU: He was once graduate assistant at New Mexico under Dennis Franchione and has served as DC at both Texas Tech and now with the Frogs. It’s a stretch to think UNM could lure him away but this is, after all, a place for reckless speculation.