As everybody looks around the country for a suitable head coach to replace Dorrell, I would like to propose that we look to Hawaii.  

June Jones' record speaks for itself.  He has led his team to a 12-0 record and a 23-3 record over the last 2 years and a .655 winning percentage over 9 years.  He runs what may be the best offense in college football and has never been accused of losing a game because he was afraid to make a gutsy call. Best of all, his teams get better as the season progresses, which means that we would never see a 6-0 team finish 6-6.

He is very popular, comes across well through the media, and is able to recruit quality players despite being saddled with terrible facilities and a recruiting budget of only $50,000.  That means he gets only one recruiting trip to the mainland and has to recruit the rest of the team from Hawaii (which is not the richest talent base).  Yet even with that, his teams always have a say about who wins the WAC and every couple of years he has an absolutely amazing team.

Brennan is the first quality QB that Jones has been able bring to Hawaii and he is setting records all over the place.  Imagine what kind of players he could bring in with that offense and the UCLA name behind his recruiting pitch.

The big knock on Jones is that his defenses are never very good but I would blame that on his limited recruiting budget.  Jones cannot go after highly sought after players at every position and he has focused his mainland recruiting on mostly offense, where he needs the most skill players.  Being at UCLA should remedy this and allow Jones to compete for a PAC-10 championship every year.

Finally, there should not be the financial hurdles that you see with big name candidates like Spurrier because Jones only makes $800,000 a year.  Plus, Jones' contract is up at the end of this season.

I know it is hard to leave the islands, but a big name program with a real budget and a pay raise can convince people to do strange things.