My weekly coach take as follows:
Right now I don't see a great realistic choice. Urban in my opinion is out of this discussion. Great if we end up with him, but in all reality, not seeing him wearing our shade of red.
I really like Leipold, but I don't think his defensive staff is any better than what we have presently. I still think that he is a really good coach and do understand that this is only his second season, and really only has one full season of recruiting under his belt, but not impressed with his defense at all. Kleiman is not a good choice because I don't think he wants this job because of its pressures.
Kiffin won't leave an SEC school right now to come here. Bama is losing its mojo, Saban is starting to lose games that he always won. The level of competition in the SEC is starting to level out and that means that someone like Kiffin is in a really good spot right now. No pun intended, but the tide is turning in the SEC.
That leaves us with MIckey. I truly think that MJ is, and has to be the frontrunner as of right now. IF we can not get a homerun hire, Urbs, then it might as well be Mickey at this point. I just don't know if any of the other choices are any better than Mickey right now.