Cutcliffe/Manning? Hear me out.

Just floating this. I'd like to hear your reasoning if it's not doable or a bad idea.

We hire David Cutcliffe as HC, Peyton Manning as OC and HC-in-waiting. Keep the rest of the staff, and throw enough money at everyone to make it happen.

Coach Cutt has been pretty successful everywhere he's been, despite not being a great recruiter. LSU will always recruit itself to a degree, as long as we don't actively screw up relationships and drive them away. Plus....like I said, keep the rest of the staff (who are obviously awesome at it). He's been successful in the SEC, specifically. He beat Notre Dame the other day, with frickin' Duke. He's unmatched at developing QBs (we got rid of Miles for a reason), and can obviously run a program at a macro level as well.

Manning knows the game as well as anyone alive, and is probably missing being part of it. He'd get his foot in the door at a relatively high level, while still not having all the admin and headaches of being a head coach just yet. He's basically been an on-field OC for 10+ years already, and knows how to relate to recruits and young players from his experience in their camps. He and his family are familiar with the area and have ties here.

They obviously know and like each other, and have already worked together. Unity of effort is big, as the Miles/(insert OC here) examples have shown.

So we bring them in, keep the rest of the staff, win a NC next year or in 2018 or both with the current talent, Coach Cutt rides off into the sunset (he's kinda old) and hands off the reins. Saban retires at about the same time, and we wreck the SEC for the next 15-20 years on the backs of Manning and all the great QBs he'll recruit and develop with their rocket-laser arms!

What have I missed? Pipe dream, I know...but can't hurt to ask, and I think it's solid.