When a coach ventures to Pullman, Washington, and takes a Washington State Cougars program that was 9-40 in the previous four seasons and turns it into a program that is contending for division championships and heading to its third consecutive bowl, that coach is going to have his name bandied about for coaching vacancies.
When that coach is Mike Leach, you can count on it doubly so.
So it is that we’ve now reached the silly season, as schools both justifiably (Florida, Nebraska, UCLA, Arkansas, etc.) and maybe unjustifiably (ASU? Really?) look for the next guy to take them to the promised land that only a few schools reach with regularity anyway.