re: Barry Odom??

This has to be all misdirection.

Not only is Odom friends with Pittman, he did some really good things at Arky this year. Odom is a big part of the "scrappiness" culture Arkansas created, in very short order, up there.

There's just no way he jumps ship. Frankly, as invested as Odom is in that team and that team in him if he was willing to jump ship to a divisional and conference opponent I would think much less of him.

But that's moot, he'd be crazy to make that move. And Arky fans would probably skin him alive before he got off the Hill if he were to come to us at LSU.

Just note, whomever we hire is going to be fighting Odom for some key talent. Especially DL and LBs. This isn't Petrino's defensive recruiting anymore.