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re: The "Dark Ages" of LSU Football
Posted on 1/5/14 at 12:17 pm to Tiger in Texas
Posted on 1/5/14 at 12:17 pm to Tiger in Texas
Firing Mack was step one of heading to the Dark Ages. People wanted him to be successful, instead of going 8-3 every year... only to find out going 8-3 every year IS being successful. LSU could have improved after firing Mack and hiring Rein... but that plane crash changed everything and lead to the series of substitute teachers running the program in to the ground.
But Hallman is a special level of terrible.
But Hallman is a special level of terrible.
Posted on 1/5/14 at 3:56 pm to Baloo
I think the treatment of Mac at the end of his tenure was surely disrespectful, but had Rein actually coached here there's a good chance we would not view Mac's departure as "step one". we'll just never know, but there's not question he was better prepared to be a successful HC (even at his relatively young age) than Stovall or Archer was. Consider that he was only 34 when he died. He could potentially still be coaching today.
In the depths of the Hallman era, SI ran a story that did a bit of a root cause analysis on how things got that bad at LSU.
- Rein's unfortunate death
- Small-time thinking
- political infighting
- bad (or just not the best) coaching hires in Stovall/Arnsparger/Archer progression
I would also add that we didn't really deal w/ the changing recruiting landscape (prop 48, etc) at the time.
ETA: Had LSU hired Pat Sullivan instead of Dinardo to replace Curly, is there a chance the program is run down even further to a point that it's a job Saban doesn't want?
In the depths of the Hallman era, SI ran a story that did a bit of a root cause analysis on how things got that bad at LSU.
- Rein's unfortunate death
- Small-time thinking
- political infighting
- bad (or just not the best) coaching hires in Stovall/Arnsparger/Archer progression
I would also add that we didn't really deal w/ the changing recruiting landscape (prop 48, etc) at the time.
ETA: Had LSU hired Pat Sullivan instead of Dinardo to replace Curly, is there a chance the program is run down even further to a point that it's a job Saban doesn't want?
This post was edited on 1/5/14 at 4:05 pm
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