It is often more than exploring your options - it is leveraging an extension and/or raises for your assistants ...
I would be more worried about Ole Miss than Miss St (f that job were available). Baylor is a non-starter IMO. Biff can gaff all he wants - that is his motis operandi, his raison d'etre (i.e., what he lives for, his one true calling), but this stuff matters to Clawson - food and family.
Anybody ever been to Waco? I'd take a job as the lone human on Mars over Waco (and be forced to grow potatoes in my feces). No fucking way Clawson's family approves that one. Also, anybody listened to a Clawson press conference? I have never ever heard him praise the Lord Jesus as his savior. Nor has he ever given Jesus any credit for a victory. No way to Baylor. Those Baptists are Wake Forest circa 1979.
And Oxford, Mississippi as a destination? Maybe. Starksville, no. Just no. I truly believe him when he talks about quality of life as extremely important to him. Maybe when they are empty nesters he will go all in for a 5-year top 15 program and finish it out, but he isn't there yet. If we can figure out how to put more butts in the seats and recruit more 4-stars and have better depth, he won't need to go anywhere to get that.