He is the Arizona State coach for the 2007-2008 season, and if Erickson was in discussions with another school right now for the 2008-2009 season, I would not be surprised.

I did a story before this season, where I wondered how soon Erickson would be gone. You'll have to take my word for it since that was July, and the free archives don't go back that far. The man said he hoped Idaho would be his last job, said he was too old to go job hunting again. The man says a lot of stuff.

As you can imagine, Idaho players were less than pleased, according to reports. How much would you have paid for front-row seats for that meeting, the one where Erickson told his players he was bailing on them?

It had to be like the scene from "Wedding Crashers" where Owen Wilson is in bed with the girl and says the wrong name and she looks at him and says something like, "You think you're completely full of it, or just 50%?" and he says with all sincerety, "I hope it's just 50%, but it's tough to say for sure."

Makes you wonder why Erickson would have taken the Idaho job in the first place. The Vandals went 4-8 this year. It's not like Erickson needed a losing season at Idaho to complete his resume. Guessing that's not what made Arizona State AD Lisa Love pick up the phone. He's still making 49ers money. He doesn't need much more.

Erickson must have thought he could handle being out of the spotlight, coaching small-time football in no-man's land. Or he just needed a last-minute date for the prom, and had no intention of a long-term commitment. So much for the feel-good story it seemed to be. You'd think treating schools the way he does would come back to haunt him eventually, but everyone is so desperate to win, it obviously doesn't matter.