re: Failing to replace Coach O immediately is going to cost LSU next season too.

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LSU will be fine.


If LSU hires the right HC.

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This.

LSU fans tend to believe that they'll automatically be contenders due to the talent in their state no matter who the coach is. They say things like "if Miles or Orgeron could do it, any half decent coach can too."

But I've got news for them, all that's keeping them from completely falling off into the abyss and becoming Tennessee is a mediocre coach and a couple down years. In-state talent doesn't mean jack shite, and it definitely doesn't make for automatic success like they believe.

Florida, Texas, and California all have massive amounts of blue chip recruits and you don't see programs from those states automatically winning anything or even contending for titles. On the reverse end of that, Alabama, South Carolina (Clemson), Oklahoma, and Ohio aren't chock full of decent recruits but those programs still win.

TLDR- having recruits in your back yard doesn't automatically mean you'll be a successful program