1AA your comments are hilarious. Slocum was a disaster, and F grade during his time year. Why not an assistant who has been successful and part of a winning program a chance. Most, if not many great head coaches worked their way up as assistants at quality programs.
Anyone, and I mean anyone would be an upgrade from a coach whose teams play NO defense, and he is also a miserable SOB.
As for Hood, are you serious? His claim to fame is recruiting at Wake Forest? That football program is lousy, even in a good year, they struggle to get to .500 and they play in a meaningless bowl game. If Hood were any good, why didn't get another head coaching job?
As for competition, the MVC is the Big 10, and the OVC is the MAC. They had one good team last year, Jacksonville State, and YSU buried them on their home field in the playoffs. When has an OVC team made a run at a National Title on gone deep in the playoffs?