re: Is Ed's 7+ million per year contract guaranteed for all 6 years?

do yourself a favor and take a break from this place, try to find some friends or something

Well at least he won it there and not at some other school and conference like the one you glued your football program to

Don’t care, we won the National Championship and I had sex last night.

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proven commodity

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boy that's rich....

7 million and the championship along with the opportunity to compete for more, as opposed to 7.5 million and the perennial 3-4 place finish. LSU has the bargain. ATM is hosed.

Just to answer your original question, and correct an error:

6+ million/year

And we don't know yet the details on terms of guaranteed money. I would guess it's not fully guaranteed, though.

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I hope you cherish that self-made national championship trophy where the date will be blank for the rest of time

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Well, that is until they go another 80 years without a championship and then have to replace it with "21__"

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We handcuffed ourselves to a proven commodity - a guy who had won year after year after year, calling his own plays, leading multiple great offenses.

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Fisher fricking sucks dude

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Actually he isn’t like Chiz at all. Ed inherited a mess.

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A mess? LSU was averaging 9 wins a (regular) season over the 5 seasons prior to O taking over. The program hadn't won fewer than 8 regular season games in 16 years. And a large chunk of the 2017 recruiting class (the one that provided the foundation for this season) had already committed before Les was fired (though Ed deserves a lot of credit for keeping it together). Chiz took over an Auburn team that had just finished 5-7. Their biggest win being a barn-burner 3-2 victory over MSU. Tuberville had essentially quit. His final game being a 36-0 blowout loss to Bama. In no way, shape or form did Ed inherit a "mess". What he inherited was a program brimming with big time potential being held back by a stubborn HC who simply REFUSED to change his offensive approach.

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Brought in his staff and players

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He kept Les's entire defensive staff. Including himself. That aforementioned 2017 was mostly compiled under Les (though again, O convinced them to sign despite the coaching change)

Can O sustain success? It seems pretty likely considering LSU has won at least 8 games per season for the last 20 years. Plus, Ed is always going prioritize recruiting at a high level. So no, I don't foresee a Chiz post-Cam/Malzahn dropoff (even if the offense never again matches this season's insane production level). LSU will spend the money to try to hire a great staff and they will always have talent under O.

My fellow LSU brethren will no doubt be furious at this thought, but I really hope LSU didn't unnecessarily handcuff themselves to O with a lengthy guaranteed extension. Not that I don't think O did a terrific job this season (He definitely earned a raise in base pay this year). But that he didn't really have the negotiating leverage at this point to force LSU to lock him in in a manner similar to Jimbo (i.e. Jimbo had significant demand from multiple power conf. schools A&M, FSU, and I'm sure others would have wanted to hire him at the time he wanted to leave FSU). However, I don't see LSU going into a Chizik level tank either.

Jimbo killed a program before coming to TAMU. Its dead.