I don't know what the answer is, I really don't. Take just a second, though, and look at the "answers" around the SEC.
1. Tennessee. There was Kiffin, Dooley and now Butch "Winning Life Championships" Jones. The Vols were expected to ride to the SEC East title on a pair of missing eyebrows. Instead? Barely beat App State. Beat a crappy Florida team. Hail mary miracle to overcome crappy UGA. On track for the SEC-CG and a berth in the playoffs! Ooops. Lose to A&M, Lose to Bama, Lose to crappy SC, lose to Vandy. Flames. 8-4 feels like 4-8. They're begging some school to take him off their hands. And he's an assclown on top of it.
2. Georgia. Kirby Smart? Really? This is their guy?
3 -4 . South Carolina. Florida. Would you want Muschamp or Beaver-wain as the HC at Auburn?
5. LSU. Fired the winningest coach in school history and ended up with a position coach in his place -- and a guy who was without peer the worst SEC head coach I've ever seen when he was at Ole Miss. Has he learned THAT much since he was booted from there? His hire reminds me of them getting DiNardo or Ole Miss getting Houston Nutt. It's not going to work.
6. Vanderbilt - Yeah, I'd take their guy. Good hire, but who knows how he'd do on a bigger stage.
7. Kentucky - I'm not sold on Little Game Mark. But he does read as a head coach and Malzahn really doesn't.
8. Missouri - Do they have a coach?
9. Arkansas - Would you really trade Malzahn for that fat, slobby, inept jerkwad? What has he actually done there? Nothing but beat us once so far as I can tell.
10. Texas A&M. Sumlin is a black Gus with a drinking problem. So no.
11. Ole Miss. Freeze is Malzahn with bad teeth and a cheating problem. So no.
12. MSU. Hunchback and his wife can DIAF. He might be a better coach than Malzahn, but I don't like him and wouldn't want him.
So. We run Gus off and what happens? It's a crapshoot. Given the current landscape, it really sort of has to reach a point to where we KNOW there's a better option who wants the job (or we end up like LSU and promote Rodney Garner to HC) or things have gotten so abysmally bad that there's no other option and we have to go a different way.
Whoever we bring in -- when there is a change -- needs to burn it all down and start over. Pat Dye did it. Saban (as much as I hate him) did it. Burn it to the ground, take the first year lumps and start over.
Are we willing to endure that?