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Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly has become the leading candidate for the Vols

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Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly has become the leading candidate for the Vols’ head coaching job, according to a source inside the Tennessee football program. But UT athletic director Mike Hamilton is still researching and considering other candidates. South Florida coach Jim Leavitt can be added to the list of those candidates, according to the source. Leavitt, 51, was a candidate for the Alabama head coaching vacancy in 2003 and again in 2006, but family issues kept him in Tampa. As for Kelly, it’s worth noting Michigan took a long look at Kelly before passing. Wonder why? Kelly’s resume appears sterling… Mike Leach still has his name thrown around, but I don’t see it. No one is going to come into the SEC and win with Xs and Os - it takes talent, not gadgets. And, I just don’t see Leach (47) being able to handle the level of scrutiny that comes with the UT head football coach job. It’s a regal position - hardly a post for someone with erratic and eccentric personality traits. As for Butch Davis, who really knows? Yeah, he’s a proven winner. But he’s also a proven manipulator - indicating to Miami Hurricanes’ media he was going to stay there before taking the Cleveland Browns head coaching job. The fact that Jimmy Sexton is his agent makes Davis impossible to figure. Sexton has so many high-profile coaches as his clients, he’s as much of a puppeteer in the college football world as anyone. – Knoxville News-Sentinel

http://www.footballrumormill.com/2008/11/19/the-name-game-kelley-emerges-at-leader-at-tennessee/

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Brian Kelley is an excellent coach, and I don't see him staying at Cincinnati after this year.

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The Big East will never become a powerhouse conference in football because any good coach that coaches a school and does a good job for a couple of seasons bails out and moves to a more "traditional" programs.

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The Big East will never become a powerhouse conference in football because any good coach that coaches a school and does a good job for a couple of seasons bails out and moves to a more "traditional" programs.

Money talks.

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I'm sure he'd be on ND's short list too.  Weis is gone in my opinion. 

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he's already packed probably

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LEAVITT IS ON NO ONES SHORT LIST ANYMORE

HIS STOCK HAS DROPPED

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Looks like it's Lane Kiffin's job.

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