I am here to announce my candidacy to be the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

According to ESPN, there could be an opening there.

The “report” that the Cleveland Browns want to interview Condoleezza Rice about the head coaching job is staggering on so many levels. You wonder how something like this got started.

Did the Browns do it for the publicity? Are the trying to help their diversity street cred? Of course, they can’t be serious (well, they are the Browns, so maybe they are) but something had to happen to get all of this started. And from there, it made its way to Adam Schefter, one of the best and most reliable reporters in all of sports journalism.

Schefter tweeted on Sunday “Browns interested in interviewing Condoleezza Rice for head coaching job, source tells” and also actually said it on TV with a straight face. It doesn’t pass the smell test on any level and you wonder how it got past Schefter’s nose as well.

If so, this will greatly impact the traditional road to the top to being a head coach. No more will aspiring coaches go the graduate assistant or high school route. If you can become a Denning Professor in Global Business at Stanford, doors will start flying open.

The fact that all parties involved are denying this — Schefter even re-tweeted Rice’s denial — seems to have helped put this story to rest.

Still, you have to wonder how this made it’s way to a reliable, trusted reporter. I’m not sure which is worse — if it’s true or if it’s not.