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Kiffin may want continue to drag out this "decision". If Ole Miss wins the Egg Bowl, Texas beats A&M at home, and the Crimson Tide goes to Auburn for the Iron Bowl and loses late Saturday night, then Ole Miss historically makes their 1st SEC championship game appearance the following weekend. Does Kiffin leave his team high and dry the week before possibly competing for their 1st conference championship in over 50 years?

After observing Lane Kiffin’s career over the last 20 years I don’t think it would shock anyone if he flirted with LSU during a UM playoff run, only to stay at UM or bolt to another program or NFL at the last hour. This cenario is only made more likely when you mix in that fact that his agent is Jimmy Sexton. As such, I hope our admin is conducting a legitimate search and vetting other candidates. Specifically, we should be speaking to other coaches that have coached above and below each candidate, as well as current and former players that play/played for him. The essence of what we need in a coach is a tireless worker, obsessed with attention to detail and winning football games, a la, Nick Saban. To go for the “shinniest”, and most expensive, object on the shelf just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should.

Yes, Kiffin is a good coach, and LSU could do a lot worse. I think I’m just tired of not having a normal/likeable coach at LSU. Miles had trouble forming coherent sentences, while Orgeron had trouble with the English language. Then came Kelly, whom I don’t know if anyone liked, so much so that he reportedly had to use a PR firm this last offseason in order to try and improve his image. Then you bring in Kiffin with his awkward whiny drivel. I have seriously wondered if Lane Kiffin is on the Asperger’s/autism spectrum. You have UM fans calling him narcissitic now as well. I watched the ESPN documentary and at the end he talks about trying to change to not make everything about him. Yet, here we are, in the middle of a UM playoff run and he is apparently in deep talks about jumping ship again to another program. He quit on Bama and Saban in 2017 and I don’t think he would lose any sleep over dropping UM to cash a bigger paycheck and go chase bimbos in a bigger city. The guy is still dropping petty tweets, trolling people, and trash talking opposing players on a weekly basis. Do you really want a coach that takes literally 50 years to “mature”.

Are we really going to reset the coaching salary market over the guy who lost to Brian Kelly last year and couldn’t make a 12 team playoff with a loaded roster, including a starting NFL QB? Kiffin has been a power 4/5 head coach for 10 years now and he has 0 conference championships and 0 playoff appearances. People keep saying that Kiffin would be unstoppable with LSU’s talent, but since Kiffin has been at Ole Miss they have put 6 offensive skill players on active rosters in the NFL comprared to 5 from LSU. At the end of the day, coaches will tell you that it’s more about the Jimmies and Joes than the X’s and O’s. If Kiffin doesn’t have good players, just like any coach, he’s not going to win football games. I would like to see LSU spend less on the head coach and put that money towards aquiring better personnel. Heck, we won national championships with Les Miles and Ed Orgeron, neither of which are known for being brilliant schematic minds. UM is currently ranked #6 nationally in this week’s poll, guess who is #7, Texas Tech, who’s coached by a guy named Joey McGuire who coached HS football for 21 years. If you like Kiffin’s offense, just have our new coach hire Charlie Weis Jr for OC, who has learned Kiffin’s system.

When Lane Kiffin was a 34 year old adult and the head coach at UT, he was able to flip blue chip recruit Janzen Jackson from LSU. The rub was that Kiffin instructed Jackson to stay silent about it until national signing day, so that LSU would not only lose out on Jackson, but they wouldn’t have time to find a replacement. What am I doing if I am LSU now in 2025? I am 110% pressing Kiffin’s people, making it very clear that we would make him the highest paid coach in the game. We are already starting to catch wind of UM brass and fans calling him out for flirting around with other programs, so ideally he starts burning bridges with Ole Miss so that they basically kick him out. Then, I am “Janzen Jacksoning” Kiffin by informing him that we decided to go in a different direction. Ole Miss will remain a permanent rival with the new SEC schedule format, and this is a great opportunity to weaken a rival. After all, they very well may be trying to do the same thing to us. At the least, if we can cause UM to have to overextend a bit financially to keep Kiffin, that may mean they fall short for a player or two in the portal each year.

If you’ve read this far, you are asking well if it isn’t Kiffin, then who? My current wish, is that they go through a deep vetting process mentioned above on: Dillingham, Riley, Key, Stein, Morris, Golesh, Sumrall, Golding, Minter, and Monken. Find the best fit.

Geaux Tigers!

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First off, I feel that Herman or Fisher would be “home run” hires by LSU. With that being said, there are certainly a lot of rumors swirling right now, and I am sure there are some parties being played in these alleged negotiations. In the event that Herman & Fisher would slip through our hands, I seem to be with the majority in considering the hiring of Gundy, Fedora, etc. to be underwhelming. An underwhelming hire would obviously not be good for the program and probably further splinter and disgruntle our fan base that has been so for the last several years. I know the sooner we name a head coach the better in terms of recruiting. However, rushing into hiring a Gundy or a Fedora in desperation would potentially be a major mistake.

I admit that while I have been skimming the posts on the coaching changes board the past several weeks, I have not been reading every word, so I could have missed some of these names being discussed, so forgive me if you guys have already discussed these options. If nothing else, reaching out to some of these guys would at least give us more leverage in terms of negotiations with Herman and Fisher.

Jack Del Rio: I believe he is the lowest paid NFL coach at $3.5 mil/year, so we could certainly give him a nice raise. He played and coached with the Saints, and I also believe his daughter went to LSU. There is also uncertainty with the Raiders in terms of a potential move to Las Vegas. An interesting dynamic through would be that he would potentially have to coach against his son Luke at UF.

Bill O’Brien: Like Saban, he had success running a major college program, and then wanted to try his hand in the NFL (only he’s done better than Saban in the League). I have no clue if he wants to go back to college, but there was a rumor last year that he flirted with Maryland. It seems that it took some persistent negotiations on Bama’s part to get Saban from Miami. His salary is apparently $5 mil/year, so we could also likely give him a raise as well. Also, like Saban, he coached under Belichick. He also would be a popular name in East Texas in terms of recruiting having coached the Texans the past few years.

Doug Pederson: Played QB for ULM and coached HS in Shreveport at Calvary.

Todd Monken: Former LSU WR coach and head coach at Southern Miss. Dirk Koetter tapped him to call the plays as OC for the Tampa Bay Buccs this year, so he is a pretty well respected offensive mind. He has connections in the deep south from coaching at USM and LSU. He only won 1 game in his 1st 2 years at USM, but that refects somewhat on the state that Fedora left that program in. Monken won 9 games at USM last year before they lost to a good WKU in the CUSA title game.

So, after this long post, my question is…does anyone know if LSU has reached out to ANY NFL candidates, or vice versa?

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I really like Dan Mullen and I think he would be great at LSU. However, I just think it would be hard for him to tell his team that he is jumping to another SEC west school (for more $$), and then turn around and play the guys that he recruited for the next few years. I'm not afraid of Miss St. playing the revenge factor but it would just be kind of awkward. We could do a lot worse than Mullen though.

The most objective way I could think of to get a sense of the general talent level of our SEC brethren was to average the national recruiting rankings from 247 over the last 5 years. It seems that the 247 rankings are the most respected and I picked 5 years to cover redshirt seniors through true freshman on the 2015 teams:

SEC Rank - Team - Average National Ranking

1 Alabama 1.0

2 LSU 7.0

3 Georgia 8.0

4 Auburn 8.4

5 Florida 9.6

6 Tennessee 13.8

7 A&M 15.2

8 South Carolina 18.6

9 Ole Miss 21.2

10 Arkansas 24.8

11 Mississippi St. 26.8

12 Kentucky 36.2

13 Missouri 39.0

14 Vanderbilt 43.4

I wanted to post this for a few reasons. I have heard a lot of people say this week that LSU has just as much talent as Bama. I feel that our starters are pretty even talent wise, however the difference is depth. With the top recruiting ranking every single year, they have a few more guys than us that can come off the bench and not suffer a drop off; especially in the defensive front 7. On the flip side, I think our superior depth is a big reason why we beat Miss St. this year.

The second reason I posted this is to emphasize the importance of this week’s game against the pigz. Looking at the rankings above, you can see the difference in talent between Arky and LSU. Additionally, Arkansas had ZERO players on Phil Steele’s pre-season All-SEC 1st, 2nd, 3rd, OR 4th team defenses or special teams.

I understand that Toledo, who likely would be ranked lower than Vandy in the above rankings, beat Arkansas, as well as Jacksonville St. playing with AU for 4 quarters. This puts the emphasis on Miles and this coaching staff to earn their salary, motivate this team, and avoid the embarrassment that was last year’s Arky game. Between Bielema’s post-game comments last year that “we beat’em like yard dogs” or whatever he said, and the Boot trophy, we have no reason not to be up for this game. We have no buisness loosing to an inferior program and a team with inferior talent two years in a row.

I agree with your post. I think it was big not having our SR 300 lb TE to help block those guys too. Anyway, I feel our early departures vs. those at Bama is certainly a worthy subject of discussion. I firmly believe that if Reggie Ragland & A'Shawn Robinson played for LSU, they would have gone pro last year.

I don't know if it is Saban brainwashing them or their player salary at Bama that keeps them there, or both. Or is it a problem on our end, that the players don't have as much confidence or trust in Miles. Or maybe it's just grown to be the culture of our program (although we seemed to have a few more guys stick around this year). You would think however, that a coaching staff that does so well in recruiting the high school kids could recruit our guys to stay too.

Kendall Beckwith's decision is huge for LSU. If he leaves, we may be in trouble next year on D. He would really hurt LSU by leaving early. I just don't see Saban "allowing" a player like that to leave early.

If we can get Beckwith and at least Pocic or Big Hawk to come back next year, we should have a decent chance against Bama. They will have great starters again next year, but not the ridiculous depth on the defensive front 7. I think we could see Smart and/or Kiffin move on after this year as well.