re: Sexton just going for the raise again

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Nah, LSU doesn't make a move like this without a firm assurance that they will get their man

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"LSU" might not make a move, but the influential boosters and some BOS folks seem to be maneuvering behind the scenes. I promise you Sexton is talking to them more than he is talking to Joe Alleva. He worked the much more wealthy and much more influential boosters at Texas last season for 3 months. The end result was that Saban got a big raise at a job he was likely never really considering leaving (despite what everyone is saying).

I would like to think LSU wouldn't make a move without a deal with someone else in place. But the reality is that many of the decision makers and/or those calling for Les's head are nothing more than your average irrational rant poster only with the money and influence to make things happen.

We'll see. Recent history is not on LSU's side. The only recent instance I can remember where a highly successful Power conference HC left for another power conference job is when Brett Beilema left Wisc for Arkansas. That hire came almost completely out of nowhere.

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The end result was that Saban got a big raise at a job he was likely never really considering leaving (despite what everyone is saying).

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He worked that con for years - I heard the $10 million a year a full 2 years before Texas fired Mack Brown. The only wild card in the equation was the AD at Texas at the time. Reportedly, Saban wanted Patterson replaced and have a say in who his boss would be. They balked at that, so he took more money from Bama and stayed put. Does that mean he wasn't serious about taking the Texas job? Maybe. Who knows?

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. For years it's been talk, substantiated by the most connected people, that Jimbo is still very fond of LSU. He still keeps in contact with and hunts with old friends from the area.

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This is the typical coaching board/wishful fanbase thinking fodder.

I am just using my fanbase as personal experience with him as well. He is more connected to Auburn, has family there, coached there, still comes back there, hadnt won a NC yet, wasnt paid nearly what he is paid now, was in actual negotiations with AU, and still decided FSU was worth staying at. Things might change, but this is still a one sided argument and that side is the LSU fanbase, which amounts to mostly rumormongering

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ea, the only answer im hearing for that is maybe the ex-wife and kids will move here too.

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Yeah, x-wives are usually very accommodating that way.

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Well that makes sense. Jimbo is going to have joint custody of his kids, with an x-wife that lives in Tallahassee, but is going to move to Baton Rouge to be closer to his hunting buddies.

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Pat Sullivan in 1994 stands out.

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Not saying we get Jimbo at all but your example is from 21 years ago. There is literally no one at LSU that has any relation to your example.

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Has never been happy in Tallahassee.

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link?

I'll be thrilled if we get him but if he wasn't happy why in the hell did he stay that long????

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Nah, LSU doesn't make a move like this without a firm assurance that they will get their man.


History says otherwise.

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This. LSU's BoD/TAF competence isn't to be trusted. To some, LSU has made one good hire and even followed that up with a shitty one-(the anti-Miles crowd).

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Sexton just going for the raise again

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Why the frick cant you people say "I think..." or "IMO, ..." or "To me this feels like..."??

Yall just have to state stuff as fact. As if you dont know what a fact is. Or is it hubris? No i think its unintelligence and a lack of self awareness.

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Sexton just going for the raise again

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yep


I wish they would get Kelly