I agree with the OP. A good friend of mine is Searles's 2nd cousin--when UTC played Cincinatti in 2002 in the pre-season basketball, we went up to Cincy and stayed with Searles at his home, he got us our tickets, blah blah blah. Great guy, really nice, but the funny thing was that even though he was currently (at that time) the O-line coach at Cincy, in the bottom of his house, he had a little Auburn shrine dedicated to himself and Bo Jackson since he blocked for him back in the 80s. It was actually pretty cool to see.
The other strange thing that happened, was that 2 hours after my friend and I left to come back to Chattanooga, Nick Saban called him and brought him in as the O-line coach at LSU. Just kinda cool that I could have been there to witness that phone call had I stayed another 2 hours. Anyway--I thought for sure, myself, that that would be the beginning of the rest of his life in the SEC. Guess I was wrong and the OP is right. $$$$$ Talks and BS walks.
And cue the "cool story bro" comments in 3...2...1... :hi: