Clearly Mullens and the PK's did not believe those so-called big time coaches were the best candidates for the job. My personal theory is that they had a picture in their minds of someone young, dynamic, able to energize the staff and players and especially to resonate with young recruits. Taggert must have knocked their socks off in that regard, because as far as we know they never even looked at PJ Fleck or any of the above "big time" guys, nor probably Gene Chizik either. We don't know how much consideration they gave Lincoln Riley, Greg Schiano, or some of the others who have had success as coordinators at major programs, but can only guess they wanted a head coach with a history of rebuilding trainwrecks.