could it be that sentiment on Briles is shifting? He just retired from his head coach position at Mt. Vernon High School in east Texas. There is some push to get him back into the collegiate game. Some big money booster is out there wanting him at his school. Maybe bama thinks Saban is going to retire soon. https://footballscoop.com/news/new-investigation-re-examines-baylors-dismissal-of-art-briles/ “The purpose of our review, as we understand, is to assist others in determining whether Coach Briles might be a candidate to coach football again at the collegiate level,” “My goal is to purse redemption and fairness,” Williams writes in the introduction. “Coach Briles deserves a better hearing than he got, and is getting, about his tenure as Baylor’s head football coach. There is no reason someone as talented as Coach Briles shouldn’t be coaching at the collegiate level.”