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"We wanted to keep it in the family"

Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:48 pm
Posted by tigerskin
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Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:48 pm
It hadn't hurt that 30 Tiger players attended a 3½-hour board meeting to testify on his behalf. "We wanted to keep it in the family," says senior guard Eric Andolsek. Added Williams, "Coach Arnsparger leaving was like my dad dying. But with Coach Archer, it's like my mother took over."

When Archer took the LSU head coaching job, he was 34 years old, the youngest head coach in Division I-A football. Archer was chosen over a number of interviewed candidates, which reportedly included Steve Spurrier, Mike Shanahan, and Mack Brown. Arnsparger later hired Spurrier at head football coach at Florida.
Posted by 1984Tiger
North Carolina
Member since Apr 2006
7299 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:49 pm to
I always liked Archer ... he just wasn't ready to be a head coach.
Posted by GeismarGeauxer
Geismar
Member since Dec 2009
5197 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:49 pm to
How did that work out for us?
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
80333 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:49 pm to
People forget that "keeping it in the family" often has a stink of incest about it.
Posted by LSUlunatic
Member since Dec 2006
6833 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:51 pm to
The alumni BBQ went smoothly thereafter though, and you can't underestimate the importance of that.
Posted by saintsfan22
baton rouge
Member since May 2006
71927 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:52 pm to
We'll sell out alumni games, the real games not so much.
Posted by dljtigers
Sulphur, LA
Member since Feb 2012
1822 posts
Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:55 pm to
When the players pick the coach it often doesn't work out.
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