Also, RE: Alabama...
Grant proved that you could recruit at a high level there, and I guess I parallel that job to Florida more than Texas. The SEC is ripe for a lot of meaningless wins (theoretically...hasn't panned out for Mizzou or Frank, unfortunately, though). If Marshall just got them to the tournament 4/5 years, even at 4 million, I think they'd probably build a statue of him somewhere.
I mean, it would be somewhere they put statues of non-Football coaches, but it would be a statue nonetheless.