I, like Race, had heard that as well.
sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1913963
Turner refused to discuss potential candidates.
Some names that have been mentioned include California coach Jeff Tedford, New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, Utah's Urban Meyer, Boise State's Dan Hawkins and Missouri's Gary Pinkel.
From Bleacher Report ...
In 2005 the Huskies hired the recently fired Tyrone Willingham to ‘clean up’ the program. Willingham wasn’t the first person they went to, reports are they talked to Urban Meyer who had no interest in the job, but was a favorite of Athletic Director Todd Turner.
With Urban saying Todd is weird I imagine it went like this:
Todd - We aren't as concerned with winning as much as we are with the educational experience.
Urban - Fuck off.