While everyone else in ‘Bama is obsessed with losing to Tennessee in other sports, the Press-Register is reporting that Jim McElwain could possibly maybe sort of take the Bama OC job today. McElwain has called a morning press conference, but it appears to be in California, which would suggest he’s going to stay over there, though the P-R says that would be a big change of heart.
McElwain turned down the head job at Eastern Washington earlier this month. But that job doesn’t invoke the wrath of a small angry man whose been known to make 300-pounders cry like little girls.
Thus ends the speculation that Chow is headed to Tuscaloosa to become O-coordinator, nixing the Southern side of the Internet’s third-favorite rumor*.
ESPN.com’s Bruce Feldman pointed out last week that UCLA has now packaged all three of its head coaching candidates under the same regime, which is a big coup for the school that, in recent history, been a third-tier Pac-10 team at best. I’m not exactly sure what level talent UCLA has left (seeing how, you know, the only game I watched them play — the Las Vegas Bowl — wasn’t exactly an offensive explosion), but Pete Carroll certainly has to be at a lower level of thrilled about this stuff being installed at his cross-town rival.
*The top two rumors being Tommy Tuberville to the Redskins and Urban Meyer munching on children to secure Florida recruits, respectively.
