Mixed Nutts

Get Those Bags Packed Hootie!

All indications are that Hootie is on the way out. Could he have learned something last week? The way the team came out flat Saturday and Nutt's body language and mannerisms seemed a bit out of whack.

All but Rick Schaefer and the most died in the wool Hootinistas are resigned to his leaving in a matter of days. There are rumors that Butch Davis has a deadline coming up or that has just passed to agree to a deal.

There's another that Hootie will get a do-nothing job with a title like "Quality Control" coach on the Dallas Cowboys' staff if he can't get a head coaching job. Baylor or SMU or some such school would probably be the only options after the mess Hootie has made on the Hill.

Maybe the Hootster could be on the next commercial with Jerry Jones. You know, like the Pepsi ad with the guy with the headset, yawning as he calls the play in to the sidelines.

Just Hootie-ize it a little. Make it an Alltel or Cingular ad and have the guy calling the play (with D. Nutt standing in the background with headsets) ask Hootie a question. Hootie reads aloud a text message from Donna Bragg, overheard by the sideline coach,which sounds like a Cowboy play. The play turns into a fluke touchdown. Then Jerry Jones busts into the booth and Hootie says: "I called that play brutha!"