re: Do we/can we make a push for Jimbo next year?

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Who is Alexander? Got a link to whatever you were reading? I'm interested. TIA

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LINK

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You can bet Cam Cameron, the NFL quarterback guru who made Philip Rivers, Drew Brees and Joe Flacco three of the League’s highest-paid players but can’t even get a 50 percent completion rate or a decent execution of a zone read option out of Brandon Harris, will be made a scapegoat. Cameron’s contract is up and it won’t likely be renewed. That would give Miles an opportunity to go out and hire a game-changing offensive coordinator like Lincoln Riley has been for Bob Stoops at Oklahoma, but don’t bet on that happening. For one thing, Cameron was the fourth offensive coordinator Miles has had and while Fisher had enough stroke to preserve some degree of autonomy, the three since Fisher have run Miles’ offense and nothing else. They all had high-powered offensive production on their resumes and saw that record go up in flames calling toss dives out of two-tight end formations for two-yard gains; the next offensive coordinator can’t expect anything different. Serving as Miles’ offensive coordinator is the closest thing to career suicide you can get in football.

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My god. Why the hell would you come to LSU if you are a WR or QB? If next year is more of the same shite on offense, this place is gonna burn.

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LSU has decided that they are not going to try and keep up with the Coaches Arms race.

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This.

Accepting this is only logical.

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Let it go. LSU wants to settle for third or fourth at best and money from a meaningles bowl game.

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THIS.

Let it go, people.

If you are the kind of fan that wants to cheer for an organization whose primary objective is to win it all at all hazards, pick an NFL franchise, because amateur school football is not like that.

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Do we/can we make a push for Jimbo next year?

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Yes.

2016 will be Les Miles' last year at LSU.

Its interesting to see everyone wanting to find a fall guy for the internet rumors not coming to pass.
I love how the Hayride article nonchalantly throws out "tax writeoff" for $15M. Its like the Seinfeld episode:
Kramer: "It's a write-off for them."
Jerry: "How is it a write-off?"
Kramer: "They just write it off."
Jerry: "Write it off what?"
Kramer: "Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything."
Jerry: "You don't even know what a write-off is."
Kramer: "Do you?"
Jerry: "No, I don't."
Kramer: "But they do. And they're the ones writing it off."
Jerry: "I wish I had the last twenty seconds of my life back."

I wish I had back the few minutes I spent reading the "piece".

LSU is a state school and has many layers to its decision making process. It is controlled by a board of supervisors and its easy to see this was a political power grab. Athletics has evolved with TAF and private donations being handled by a separate entity, but at the end of the day it is still a public institution. The school, before the budget cuts, was receiving over $100M/yr from the state.
LSU athletics may have a nice new arm of TAF with donors, but we are not Texas or A&M or some of these other well funded state institutions with nice endowments. We are still a relatively poor state school in comparison and rely on the state for most of our funding. The "mega donors" can't maintain the yearly budget of the school and athletics does not operate in a vacuum.
LSU is the state flagship program, so politics will never be separated from its operation. Maybe we could get LSU to offer an online course for all "fans" and "mega donors" entitled: Louisiana Civics 101.

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We'll get Chip Kelly next year.

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No. Just no. I wish people would quit saying this. He is not a fit here.