Word is circulating fast amongst people who cover the Miami Hurricanes' football program that Randy Shannon AND the whole staff will be fired sometime tomorrow.

There was an emergency meeting at 5pm earlier this evening amongst key advisors, President Donna Shalala, AD Kirby Hocutt, and Randy Shannon to discuss the program's future in the wake of the loss to USF in overtime today. This decision was came to in this meeting, and will be voted on by the Board of Trustees come Monday. It's a widely held belief that this decision was spearheaded by key members of the BOT, so a vote on Monday by them would be a formality if reports of the decision to fire Shannon & staff are indeed true.

The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, CaneSport (Rivals site), and several other bloggers are reporting the same thing. The only person with differing reports is Bruce Feldman.

Just a few names that will likely be considered as replacements are Jimmy Johnson (who was seen on campus this week reportedly discussing "his future" with Shalala), Jon Gruden, Mike Leach, Gus Malzahn, and Kirby Smart. The list is bigger, but those are widely considered to be the top targets.