Maybe Chip Kelly could get the LSU job
If you were Chip Kelly, would you want to deal with Alabama's defense every year or would you just go to USC where they will give you all the money in the world and let you maul PAC-12 defenses for a living?
Talk to any LSU fan and they would pack his bags and bring him to the airport They want a coach that can beat Alabama
Its a unique breed down there...the N word was used multiple times while describing the LSU QB while we were eating dinner, in public.
As a whole they hate Les Miles (I don't get it but so be it)...
I'd just like to know how solid that recruiting class is if he's shown the door. How much attrition will there be?
As an LSU fan, I am torn. Miles is a good and honorable man that is a good leader of young men. That said, the team consistently makes mistakes you see from year 1 coaches. He hasn't beaten Bam a in years and is 13-10 in conference over the past 3.
I don't think they should run out a guy that has been in 2 Title games in 10 years, but it is what it is. Word is, if it happens s it is because Jim o is a done deal to come back to Baton Rouge. LSU fans are very Nebraska-esque right now.
I'm a Nebraska fan and I can attest to where LSU fans are at. It's actually very similar to Bob Stoops at OU before the Sugar Bowl W vs Alabama. Lots of people saw him win a National Championship early and then OU seemed "stuck" under Big Game Bob despite being pretty dang good year in and year out. Les can coach for sure, I'll be curious where he ends up. I'll say S Carolina or another southern school. Even though he's a Michigan Man I have a hard time seeing him at Maryland/Illinois/Rutgers/Purdue or any of those terrible jobs
I could see Jimbo Fisher leaving Tallahassee for Baton Rouge faster than the Colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis...he is going through a divorce..the SEC is a MUCH better league than the ACC and because of the SECN they make a LOT more $$ than FSU does or will in the future. That being said if Miles is indeed bought out and shown the door the AD at South Carolina would be foolish if he didn't pounce on him ASAP. He could have the same run Spurrier had there and stay till he decided to leave.As an LSU fan, I am torn. Miles is a good and honorable man that is a good leader of young men. That said, the team consistently makes mistakes you see from year 1 coaches. He hasn't beaten Bam a in years and is 13-10 in conference over the past 3.
I don't think they should run out a guy that has been in 2 Title games in 10 years, but it is what it is. Word is, if it happens s it is because Jim o is a done deal to come back to Baton Rouge. LSU fans are very Nebraska-esque right now.
As an LSU fan, I am torn. Miles is a good and honorable man that is a good leader of young men. That said, the team consistently makes mistakes you see from year 1 coaches. He hasn't beaten Bam a in years and is 13-10 in conference over the past 3.
I don't think they should run out a guy that has been in 2 Title games in 10 years, but it is what it is. Word is, if it happens s it is because Jim o is a done deal to come back to Baton Rouge. LSU fans are very Nebraska-esque right now.
Kelly is gone. He got rid of their best players and the ones he kept have quit on him.I don't think Chip is going anywhere...He got full control last year I believe so I don't think he leaves and I don't think they blow him out - I am wrong a lot though.
Nebraska is always solid, but they've never exceeded where Frank Solich had them. In terms of unfair firings, that one may well be at the top of the heap in CFB history.That ended so well for Nebraska . . .
Now that's interesting... Kelley to Texas? Could work. I think Mizzou, USC (if they don't get Les Miles and he gets fired), and SC will all be going after him too.The more money a job pays the more unreasonable the expectations. They're paying him what 5 or 6 million a year? Three game losing streaks are not tolerated. Not beating Alabama every other year is a sore spot.
Charlie Strong is in trouble in Texas in YEAR 2. How is that possible, everyone knows he can coach. Rumor is he is interested in Miami, thus open I ng Texas for Chip Kelley.
I hope as a fanbase we never become so insane.
I think that would be a homerun. They love that style of football at the Texas HS level. He'd be in there recruiting the best kids in Texas to play in that system. I really think he'd have them back in National Title hunt in no time flat. Miami could also be a soft landing spot for Charlie Strong who has strong ties to south Florida no pun intended. Strong can coach, I just don't think he is a good fit at Texas and I'm wondering if hiring him was somehow related to how well Sumlin has done down at Texas A&M, as he has absolutely tore it up recruiting wise.Now that's interesting... Kelley to Texas? Could work. I think Mizzou, USC (if they don't get Les Miles and he gets fired), and SC will all be going after him too.
Problem really is that there are only a few programs out there where you can be really successful. LSU for sure but they aren't hiring Fuentez or Rhule or Herman. You go to Minnesota and your upside is 8-3 pinstripe bowl.Very interesting in reading that there are connected parties willing to pony up 15 to 20MM to buy him out....
The guy is something like 111 and 31 in his time there. numerous championships, bowls etc.....
What I am curious about is the effect on younger coaches looking to get to that SEC or Power 5 level.?? If you're making
1.5 to 3MM a year and you're building a program future, do you move to that hope of taking LSU or USC to a national title.?
Probably a case by case situation.....
Jimbo fisher and DABO, already having programs considered in the National playoff picture earning huge $$$, ....perhaps we need to refine AND Define
dream job.
If you are a Fuentes or Hermann and you have had your salary bounced to 3MM with a long term contract, do you hang in
like Patterson did at TCU and continue to build a program and ride the program into the next level if there appears
that the likes of a Houston or Memphis would get a Big 12/ p5 invite or DO YOU TAKE A SHOT AT SHORT TERM
slightly larger salary hoping to build it long term?
Many cases of going to the bigger situation and failing at their dream jobs where others have succeeded.
A few have built coaching immortality. we can look no further than Geno or JC of staying and building.... and becoming legends.
In short-is it worth the risk of going to a crazed fanbase (as in the case of LSU) ?
They will find someone crazy enough to go Baton Rouge.