Can someone please remind me why LSU hired Johnny Jones???

He was hired for his cruiting abilities.

To make the football team look better.

If we are being honest very few believed it was a good hire.

There was optimism that it could work out, and his recruiting initially made it seem like the program could be on the upswing, but at the time of the hire, most people were disappointed.

Dale and Collis

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Can someone please remind me why LSU hired Johnny Jones???

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Because Dale Brown was so awesome and such an underperformer that LSU thought "by golly, surely because JJ trained under Brown, he'll do every bit as good"

Everyone loved the hire!

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Actually, this is pretty true. There was a huge groundswell of people on this site hoping LSU would look past going for another "lower-mid-major name" or "past-prime bigger conference name" and help the efforts to reach back to the roots of the good times under Dale Brown. Anyone who denies that now has a really bad memory.

Just a heads up - since this exact thread has been made 10,000 times this season, all the answers are going to be great.

Then real answer to why he was hired is because Alleva is stupid and Dale Brown and Collis Temple still flex their muscles over a subpar program.