After Miami fired Head Coach Al Golden, the speculation over the next Head Coach in Coral Gables began almost immediately. Bruce Feldman chimed in with his list, and it included current West Virginia Head Coach Dana Holgorsen.

3. Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia head coach, 44: One of the sharpest offensive minds in all of football, Holgorsen comes from the Air Raid coaching tree but has shown he’s more than willing to branch out and draw up what he thinks will work, even if it means running the Power I with two fullbacks as he’s done this season. The former Iowa Wesleyan receiver has shown quite a knack for finding and developing receivers and it’d be interesting to see what he could conjure up with the talent he could get at Miami. "He really knows how to use talent,” said one Miami source. "It’d be like turning the light switch on." Holgorsen showed folks in South Florida what he can do when his Mountaineers hung 70 on Clemson in the Orange Bowl four years ago. His record since then isn’t great — he’s 31-26 overall and 3-3 this season. He has a good job at WVU, but it’s a job that has become much more of an uphill battle since WVU got into the Big 12. Aside from Iowa State and the Kansas schools, his is the toughest job in the Big 12 to get talent. At Miami, he would be able to take a much bigger stick into his conference fights. He also has a couple of guys on his staff with strong South Florida connections.

On Monday's Big12 teleconference, Holgorsen was asked plainly if he would consider leaving for the Miami job.

"I love it in Morgantown," he said. "We got an exciting brand of ball, great tradition. We get to play in an extremely exciting conference in the Big12."

He then steered the conversation back toward his Mountaineers and their matchup with No. 5 TCU on Thursday night.