So Neuheisel can’t even get a sniff for a job. Can’t say I’m surprised. The other “tarnished” coaches cited in the story — George O’Leary and Mike Price — committed sins of personal failings. Neuheisel’s sins impact a program. Here’s what I have said of Neuheisel:

Of course, when talking of compliance and NCAA violations, there is no one that knows it better than the man that leaves a trail of slime wherever he goes, a man who causes other attorneys (like myself) to say about him, “sure he went to law school, but he’s not really a lawyer. He’s not one of us.” I’m speaking of course of Rick Neuheisel.
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It’s consistent with Neuheisel’s violations of recruiting and ethics at Colorado and Washington. Skate up to the razor’s edge of the line, and maybe fall over it just a little, but not so much that it can’t be argued that there was a gray area — thus precluding major penalties, only continual paper cut, minor ones.

I’ve always thought that was in part because of Neuheisel taking the wrong lessons from law school (the majority of it is because Neuheisel is a slimy, corrupt, and doesn’t think the rules apply to him kind of guy) — the line can be blurry and as long as you don’t go over a clear line, you can wriggle free.

Any school that would take a chance on him, even as a coordinator, would be inviting the NCAA to put the entire program under an ongoing microscope. Not many ADs prepared to take that chance.