re: For the old-timers...when did Cholly Mac first get on the hot seat?

Yeah, Mac always had his critics. However, he junked the walking I in favor of the veer as it suited Mike Miley. Everyone was convinced that we were on our way to a NC. However, Miley then signed a pro baseball contract and was gone. He then started LSU's first black QB in Carl Otis Trimble, who might have been a good person, but wasn't worth a shite as a college QB. He could run, but could not pass. In order to pass, Billy Broussard had to come in which made us pretty predictable. A&M figured it out and jammed the middle and ends, and "dared" us to pass. Everyone else on the schedule figured it out and did the same thing. As to the two QB system, I do not remember when Mac didn't have a two QB system, other than the last year that Pat Lyons played.