I think this is how it goes down...

[UTnbama]

  First off, I don't see any way we win at SC, even if this team was in a good place(which it isn't),
it would be a long shot at best.
  If we have a candidate ready to go then I think DD is fired after the SC game. If we don't have a candidate
ready to go, then this agony will continue until we do, or until the end of the season whichever comes first. I
just can't see us firing DD without someone ready to go.
 I also can't see us inking a deal with anyone until DD is fired, we lose too much street cred and respect, might
really poison already hard water. That's not to say that we couldn't already have an agreement in some form,
but I think all parties involved want to be able to say that nothing was concrete until there was an opening.
Better be a pretty solid committment, coaching candidates have been known to back out. Oh my!