@justanotherfan
They are solid coaches, when they cheat, or so their encounters with the NCAA suggest.
But it remains to be seen what they can do the right way, because I for one cannot clearly discern when they were and were not cheating.
To the best of my recollection, I don't recall the NCAA telling Kelvin and Bruce, "Hey, guys, you know you were squeaky clean up until you made these two incredibly minor infractions that we overreacted to and gave you 5 years (or whatever it was) out of the game, Kelvin, and gave you Brucie 3 years (or whatever it was) out of the game." At least I don't recall them calling both coaches squeakily clean types and that each just made ridiculously minor errors. Or did they? :-)
The most interesting thing about both returning at the same time is that it makes me wonder: is there a ShoeCo, or two, in the background?
It will be interesting to see if each coach contracts with the same ShoeCo, or a different one.
It appears neither guy has a prayer of bringing in draft choices, or OADs, to those schools in this day and age, without ShoeCo hep, if my hypothesizin' were to have any basis in fact.
Here is a thought experiment.
If I were adidas trying to catch up to Nike, and feeling all warm and fuzzy about what LB did just appearing to give him one preferred stock player, well, I might sign them both up, especially after the way Self seemed to blow his hypothetical preferred stock in a second round out.
But if I were Nike, I would hypothetically be VERY disappointed with what Stumpy Miller has done with the hypothetically stacked deck Nike appeared to hand him.
My guess, hypothetically of course, would be that one, or both of these guys, if they were to sign with Nike, would hypothetically be going to get some of Stumpy's preferred stock to see if one of them might do better. Of course it is just a wild guess of a hypothesis. I have no insider info.
Stumpy appeared to me to have the most talent in the country last season. Even UK, which hypothetically speaking, Nike appeared to give a straight flush to did not have Stumpy's hypothetical Royal Flush. That was two straight years of Stumpy gagging on hypothetically preferred stock recruits, if the hypothesis were to hold water.
One can almost hear Sampson and Pearl being asked by the Cigarette Smoking Man, now out of the deep state/alien complex stuff and into deep sports puffing and saying: "If we load you up, can you at least get to the Finals? Oh,did I tell you both that your families are being kept in flying saucers in stationary orbit? Ah, so I did. Anyway, Auburn and Houston are out of the spotlight. Just do what you have to do. Mulder and Sculley are still asking the wrong questions, so we don't have to worry about their answers. And we don't have to worry about Thomas Pynchon's either. You're under the radar--both of you. Get it done. What the hell! If anyone gets onto you, Bruce, down at Auburn, we'll call in some IOUs from some crazy Austrians down at the Ludwig von MIses Institute. And down in Houston? Kelvin, we can always call the Fair Play for Cuba folks to pay a visit from New Orleans. I hear David Ferrie is still willing to work with the new face and identity we gave him. He's old, but he runs a strip joint down in Brownsville that keeps his blood pumping." :-)
I know, I know, I'm just having some fun here. There's nothing sinister going on. This is just D1.
