There are always a lot of openings. Every season.
Every time I see something like this I think, "Wait, we have boosters?"
Chip Kelly is going to USC, IMHO. How does that impact any coach search for Illinois? It doesn't. Mizzou has real issues. Unless they can pry Hermann away from Houston, they may not get the type of hire they would like. VT just hired Fuente. Surely, you don't think Memphis is on the same level as a B1G job opening. No one is going to worry about a Syracuse opening over Illinois. Syracuse is not a big name in football. That was decades ago. I can keep going on, but will spare the extra 1's and 0's. So many big names ever? I don't see it.
This line of thinking would make more sense to me if we signed Cubit to a standard 4-year deal with a low buyout. Then we'd basically be saying that we didn't expect to do better on the open market anyway. But does it make sense to dump a season or two down the drain and wait on a permanent AD because we're worried about going head-to-head with Maryland and Syracuse for the same HC candidates? A two-year deal is just plan weird and that's why we are literally the only program in the entire FBS to have a "permanent" HC on a deal less than 4 years.
