re: Greg McElroy just said LSU best job in the country

Michigan is cold and only produces OLs. No one cares about Nebraska anymore. Notre Dame is basically Army with a little more recency and fewer weight restrictions. Bama fans have this delusional mindset because they fancy themselves as among that group, forgetting they were an average program and frankly a bit of a laughingstock 10 years ago (the Bear is dead), and thus overrate "prestige". But prestige doesn't matter very much at all.

You just have to be able to exploit "resources" (1. basically a dog whistle relating to racial demographics, and 2. you have a handful of extremely wealthy donors who prefer football suites and choice RV spots over the Napa wine valley).

For these reasons, LSU is, inherently, absolutely a Top 5 job. It took Saban to wake it up, but it most certainly is, in this bastardized version of modern day college football. Michigan and Notre Dame are inferior to LSU in this respect. There are certainly cons to LSU like any job, including it isn't Top Tier in terms of historical prestige, but that is almost entirely irrelevant nowadays.