Houston Nutt's name has emerged as a potential candidate at Kansas.

In fact, the Kansas City Star is reporting that Nutt and Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins have already talked about the job.

Nutt was out recruiting Monday, but somebody close to him said that any discussions about the Kansas job would have come through an intermediary, most likely Kansas basketball coach Bill Self. Nutt and Self are both Oklahoma State alums and have remained close.

Over the years, Nutt's name has been a popular one when jobs come open. He's only been at Ole Miss for two years, but was a player in the Auburn head coaching search last year - albeit rather quietly - before the Tigers eventually hired Gene Chizik.

And at Arkansas, it was Nutt's flirtation with Nebraska that caused some of the fans there to begin to turn against him.

It will be interesting to see how far Nutt allows this one to get. Remember, Ole Miss took him to $2.5 million annually last year about the time all the Auburn talk heated up.