What's your realistic coach and staff look like?

I like it

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Bump. Nobody wants to play?

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Nobody wants to take you seriously with a head coach with one year of experience.

Try Larry Fedora if you want "realistic".

Ok let's see what your staff looks like then.

Why are people so obsessed with Tom Herman?

Tom Herman doesn't have a lot of experience, but he seems like an excellent coach. The Ohio St. Offense has taken a major step back from where they were last year, and I think his departure is a big reason why.

I'm curious what Frank Wilson would be like as an offensive coordinator or co-coordinator.

I really like Philip Montgomery. He's sort of at an in-between stage in his career where a lot of people wouldn't feel comfortable about him being the head coach because of inexperience, but he may not want to go back to being a coordinator. Just as a hypothetical, let's say he was the offensive coordinator, I think it would probably be beneficial for a guy like him to have someone like Wilson on the staff (maybe as co-offensive coordinator) to sort of pull the O toward that gritty, old-style SEC running game at times, but not necessarily if Frank has adopted/picked up things from Miles in terms of OL play, QB runs (With Miles, dual-threat QBs don't get good designs on the runs and they often seem oddly hesitant to run. It also seems that many of the option plays are predetermined.), and conservative/predictable play-calling, because that stuff has a high likelihood of bogging down against elite talent. I think it would be ideal to keep the positive aspects of a tough running game with ball control, ball security, and rotation, while also looking for other creative/explosive offensive opportunities and improving the offensive line (development of offensive linemen since Miles has been with LSU has not been very good -- Bob Bostad could maybe be a good offensive line-centric co-coordinator).

Gary Patterson is a coach I've always liked and thought could do well with LSU, but I don't know if he wants to leave TCU at this point. I think Patterson as head coach with Montgomery and Wilson as co-coordinators (or just Montgomery as OC) could be a good mix if the relationships were right and the communication was good. From there, I think you leave it to those guys to fill in the other spots. I don't know if that's realistic, though. There are a lot of different factors involved.