Worse hire, Jimbo or Kelly?

at least Jimbo has a MNC to his name

Fisher averaged around 8 wins a season which is impressive for aggie in the sec. Those are Sumlin like numbers.

The lsu bread and butter has been defense and kelly apparently doesn’t know what that is.

I thought CBK was a great hire and I still do. You need to give the guy more than 3 years. I'm not saying that because I'm a Bama fan. The guy is legit. If he hasn't got to the PO after 5 years with your recruiting base then ok, sure dump the guy.

I'm not sure, but hopefully Scott Woodward will hire Jimbo after he fires Kelly and we'll get to find out.

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Worse hire, Jimbo or Kelly?

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This can't be a serious question

Take off your team blinders, and let's look at both hires and the reasons they were made.

1) Jimbo:
Kevin Sumlin had the Aggies on the cusp of relevance, had some solid teams with Manziel, and generally they were winning at an okay clip. They seemed to level off. So A&M fired him and brought in Jimbo for the express purpose of elevating the program and challenging for the SEC and national titles. Remember, they had a trophy made for a national championship, with the 20xx date, because he was going to get them there.
He boosted recruiting and had one good year, then things starting imploding and they eventually ran him off, with the team on a downward trend when they did.
Mission: failed.

2) Kelly:
Ed Orgeron took over from Les Miles (instead of doing an actual search for a coach), he took the pieces of Miles' program, kept the (respected) defensive coordinator, landed a good transfer QB and made a run for a title in 2019. He then behaved like a complete lunatic, divorcing his wife to chase skanks (and bring them to practice), lost his DC and didn't bother to vet the replacement, lost his offense and didn't do anything to fix it, stopped recruiting, stopped having discipline in the program. Players were quitting in or before the season, nobody gave a shite, LSU had 2 straight .500 seasons (would have likely been 2 straight losing seasons if LSU had taken a bowl appearance in 2020), ...
The administration flushed him. And they wanted to find a professional who could prevent the entire program from imploding ala Florida, Auburn, Nebraska etc.
They spent the money to pull Kelly from Notre Dame, and he's corrected the course. First season, 9-3 and an SEC West title with a flawed team. Second season, 9-3 and a Heisman Trophy winner with a flawed team with maybe the worst defense in the P5 level. Now this season- "oh no, we lost bad to Alabama! Oh no, we lost bad at A&M! Oh no, we lost the opener!"- he's on track to go to 9-3 again, LSU is STILL alive in the SEC race in November, with 3 winnable games left.
The complaint is classic LSU: we aren't winning the national title this year, so he sucks.

But the mission was to prevent things from flaming out of control, stabilize, and start making runs again.

At this point, I'd say mission is successful, although we'd like the runs to start happening soon. I just have problems condemning a guy who might end up finishing 9-3, 6-2 in the SEC three straight years, when his job was to prevent the program from becoming a dumpster fire.

Kelly. He doesn’t belong here.

No Venables?

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Kelly averaged 3.5 losses a year over 12 years at ND. In his first 2 years at LSU he lost 7 games, so 3.5 losses per year for 14 years. So far this year, 3 losses. 3-4 losses a hear is what he was, is, and likely will continue to be. How can anyone be shocked or surprised?

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I'll say it again- LSU was on the verge of cratering after Orgeron's final years, and undoing everything that had been built up since Saban came.

Kelly was brought in to prevent that from happening, and rebuild the program fundamentally (all of Saban's and Miles' structure was gone).
He's doing that.

9-3 isn't what any ambitious program wants as the ceiling, but it's a solid floor. As much as I love my Tigers, we're not the program we had been in 2000-2009. They fired Miles because he was going 9-3, ... Orgeron went 5-5 and 6-7 after winning a title.
Maybe, just maybe, we need to accept 9-3 a few years, until we get all the players we want for the coaches we have. There are FAR worse things that can happen; I lived though them in the 90's and don't want to do that again.

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They spent the money to pull Kelly from Notre Dame, and he's corrected the course.

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Ah cool

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First season, 9-3

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Not a bad first season

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Second season, 9-3

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Oh. Ok

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on track to go to 9-3 again

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At this point, I'd say mission is successful, although we'd like the runs to start happening soon. I just have problems condemning a guy who might end up finishing 9-3, 6-2 in the SEC three straight years, when his job was to prevent the program from becoming a dumpster fire.

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mission accomplished

and at the bargain price of only $50 million for the past three seasons (counting previous staff buyouts plus failed DC hires)