No one's talking about Saban or Kirby. I hope you are right and at least one of these guys would still be available in the middle of December, but I doubt it. By the way, I would put Bob Stoops in the Saban or Kirby level, he is not coming here.
And I agree with your point, that you can't be afraid to battle for good coaches. Which is why you don't go into a hunt for a new AD right when it is coming upon open season to get a new coach. I'm hopeful the AD is signed over the next couple of days, but if it drags on, the coaches you want to fight for will more than likely be signed, sealed, and delivered to schools that had their #$i% together and had a plan.