The premium Razorback message boards are all a-chatter with the "inside" dope that Houston Nutt is coaching his last two games for the Razorbacks and will be going elsewhere. Their reports have gone viral to the non-pay boards.

What's interesting is that both premium sites only refer to the usual sources, nobody will go on the record, but that both Otis Kirk's HawgSports.com and Clay Henry's Hawgsillustrated.com say independently that Nutt has four offers from which to choose from.

SMU reportedly is one of those, but our sources this week said that SMU was out of the picture for Nutt. Baylor, which is dismissing head coach Guy Morriss at the end of the season, is another possibility, though Mike Singletary is also thought to be high up the Baylor wish list. He was a finalist the last time, when the Bears lured Morriss away from Kentucky.

How about Memphis? Tommy West may be out, but he also has the Tigers on the cusp of a bowl trip, which is rare around those parts too. His Tigers blew games to Ole Miss and even worse, to Arkansas State after leading by three touchdowns, but down the stretch they've beaten such teams as Southern Mississippi in Conference-USA.

It behooves Nutt for his mouthpieces to spread the rumor that he has four offers out there. It gets maybe the one viable one, Baylor, moving toward hiring him. This isn't the first time Nutt or someone else in a good position has done this to help Nutt get the job he wanted: In fact, the Boise State chancellor in 1997 reportedly gave the UA the urging that they needed to either hire Nutt or leave him alone. That worked out perfectly; it got the six-member selection committee going, and Quinn Grovey on that selection committee was pushing Nutt all the way over the obvious choice, Tommy Tuberville. Eventually, they settled on Nutt.

For more indication that Nutt knows he won't be back, one top recruit, Warren's Jarius Wright, has not been contacted by anyone from the university coaching staff in almost three weeks.

Late today on a Little Rock FM station, the name Ole Miss was thrown out there as another Nutt destination. However, we believe that, one, Chancellor Robert Khayat at Ole Miss plans to stick to his word and retain Coach Ed Orgeron after this season, and we've also been led to believe by Ole Miss sources that Khayat would not be interested in replacing Orgeron with Nutt.

We'll keep watching this Nutt story today closely. We're certain he's not going to be coaching Arkansas next year.

[UPDATE, 8:15 p.m.] Clay Henry at Hawgs Illustrated has backtracked from the earlier postings on his site, claiming now that he doesn't believe Nutt is the leading candidate at any of the four schools (none named), and that while talking with a dozen good sources led him to believe today that Nutt was leaving for another job, conflicting reports from other sources also led him to believe that the story was not solid.