The public stating of no interest in the Tennessee job NEVER HAPPENED. Statements like that one make the rest of your post meaningless. And he's not using KSU (his agent might be though). Gary is simply not going to make a decision while we still have regular season games to play and the fact that your ignorant AD tried to contact him before the Utah game is probably pissing him off almost as much as the incorrect reporting that went on last Friday. Whatever chance you had of getting GP as your next coach (might have been 100%, might have been 1%, hell if I know) is getting smaller and smaller everytime your AD does something. Whether it was firing Prince during the season, attempting contact with GP before the Utah game, being part of a false story breaking last Friday, or blaming Prince's firing on the fans......they're all just digging a deeper hole for you guys.
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OK, FrogD. I've enjoyed your banter but don't go calling our AD ignorant. If he did try to contact him, well that is good, not ignorant. If he gets pissed off because other teams may believe he is a good coach and may want him, then GP needs to just step off. And commenting on KSU's chances of getting GP getting smaller and smaller everytime or AD does something just doesn't make any sense....what has he done since some quasi-journalistic guy threw out an unconfirmed story? Let's see, he denied it, then tried to put some perspective on it. He wasn't part of the story last Friday (from all indications or Fitz would've thrown out there to stand by his story), he can blame whoever he wants for the Prince firing...it needed to happen! That also isn't digging any kind of hole.
GP was pissed this all got out there outside his timetable (coach=control freak). He is very protective of his players and has, no doubt, had a very enjoyable stay at tcu. He may not have even made a decision yet because he may to let it all play out...but not until he finishes his regular season. I think by then everything is water under the bridge.
The decision will be about staying somewhere I'm sure he enjoys at a quality private school (tougher entrance requirements=recruiting difficulties) in Texas (=recruiting benefit) but playing in a non-BCS conference against a conference schedule that won't enable him to sniff a BCS title game. Or, coaching at his old homestead in a BCS conference, in a weaker division, providing him an inroad to the Big 12 title game and, potentially Nat'l Title Game. His Texas recruiting ties will still be in play and he could accept lower academic qualifiers, but he wouldn't have the cache of a private school. The money, in the end, will likely be similar.
The question is, "is he satisfied at tcu, or does he want to give it a shot at a school that provides more opportunity?" Or, to even expand the question, does he want to look elsewhere or wait for another opportunity? The timing seems right. He has been at tcu for awhile now and has taken them about as far as they can go. That being said, it is a good gig and he may be comfortable. If his competitive nature says he wants more, KSU would be very enticing for him, I would think.
That is what the decision all hinges on, whether it has been made already or not.
