Is he leaving for Washington State? Being reported that he is a candidate for the job
My guess, if an offer is made, is he's gone. Nobody making less than 2 million a year is turning down a P5 job that includes a $2 million pay increase. If they offer him with a low-ball offer...maybe he turns it down.
Question is, would they really offer him? Guessing not, due to lack of experience. But, who knows. I've seen stranger hires.
Grinch loses two first round projected players, Murray and Gallimore (really, OU's only defensive players worth talking about), and has even less to work with this season, so it's unfair and unreasonable and premature to say he won't eventually turn things around.
What Grinch needs now is time and some luck.
If he were to leave now, it would indicate to me that he sees a task too daunting ahead of him at OU.
I think he would go if offered. No guarantee he will get OU's defense where it needs to be. If he took the WSU Job and did great things there he would likely be offered better HC jobs and would already have HC experience under his belt.
Staying at OU trying to fix a defense that might take years with the possibility it does not get done or be a HC at a P5 School now? I know what I would do if offered.
After the defense let down against LSU...it certainly did not make him more attractive as a head coach. His ties at Wazzu are there...but as head coach he would be expected to keep the offense in high gear. Not sure he is cut out for that.
Grinch loses two first round projected players, Murray and Gallimore (really, OU's only defensive players worth talking about), and has even less to work with this season, so it's unfair and unreasonable and premature to say he won't eventually turn things around.
What Grinch needs now is time and some luck.
If he were to leave now, it would indicate to me that he sees a task too daunting ahead of him at OU.