re: WoW. Curley Hallman was really that Bad

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To this day, I hate Brett Favre for making Curley Hallman look like a coach.

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I'm curious how we CAN have so many knowledgeable sports fans but no one in the Administration can evaluate a coach until he arrives at LSU.

Hallman had one good year.
Dinardo got beat by fifty points in his last game prior to being hired at LSU.
What are those guys doing now, selling insurance?

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I started LSU in 1992

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There's like a 22% chance we high-fived IRL.

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And Archer was even worse

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No, Archer had 2 winning seasons, including one of the all-time best years at LSU prior to the current Saban/Miles run.

However, he IS proof that Miles isn't just a fluke. Like Miles, Mike Archer stepped into a great situation, almost as good as what Miles did, and just had to keep things rolling. He failed miserably at that, while Miles has succeeded.

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We sucked, but we had a good time.

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LSU 91 and 94, it was the dark days, but it was so much more fun than it is now and its not even close.

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LSU was average at best starting from the 60's. Guess i just assumed lsu was good until the 90's

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"Average at best" is selling those teams short. While of course we weren't as good as we have been in the 2000s and 2010s, LSU was good in the '60s, started tailing off toward the mid-'70s, were mostly good but inconsistent in the '80s, then fell into the abyss in the '90s.

In the 1960s, LSU:

--went to five "big four" bowls (2 Cotton, 2 Sugar, 1 Orange)
--won one SEC title (1961)
--finished ranked in the final polls six times (AP ranked only 10 teams from 1962-67 and both ranked only 20 teams otherwise)
--had ten winning seasons and no losing seasons
--had an overall record of 76-26-5 (.734)
--ranked 6th nationally for the decade 1961-70 (per College Football Data Warehouse, which counts decades from 1-10 instead of 0-9, although this post reflects 0-9 for all other criteria)

In the 1970s, we:

--went to two "big four" bowls (2 Orange)
--won one SEC title (1970)
--finished ranked in the final polls four times (both ranked only 20 teams)
--had eight winning seasons, one losing season (1975), one .500 season (1974)
--had an overall record of 76-38-3 (.662)
--ranked 14th nationally for the decade 1971-80

In the 1980s, we:

--went to three "big four" bowls (2 Sugar, 1 Orange)
--won two SEC titles (1986, 1988) and would have won another (1984) that was vacated instead of being awarded to us as the highest finishing eligible team
--finished ranked in the final polls six times (AP ranked 25 teams in 1989, otherwise both ranked only 20 teams)
--had seven winning seasons and three losing seasons (1981, 1983, 1989)
--had an overall record of 70-41-5 (.625)
--ranked 24th nationally for the decade 1981-90

Forget the 1990s, although those of us who lived through it never will.

In the 2000s, we:

--went to four BCS bowls (2 Sugar, 2 BCSNC/Sugar)
--won three SEC titles (2001, 2003, 2007)
--won two national titles (2003, 2007)
--finished ranked in the final polls eight times
--had ten winning seasons and no losing seasons
--had an overall record of 99-31 (.762)
--ranked 3rd nationally for the decade 2001-10

Through 6 years of the 2010s, we've:

--been to one BCS/CFP bowl (BCSNC/Sugar)
--won one SEC title (2011)
--finished ranked in the final polls five times
--had six winning seasons and no losing seasons
--had an overall record of 61-17 (.782)
--ranked 8th nationally for the period 2011-15

In the three decades preceding the 1990s, we finished in the final polls more than half the time and were overall ranked nationally in the top 10, top 15 and top 25 respectively. That is nowhere near "average at best", it's above average at worst.

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LSU 91 and 94, it was the dark days, but it was so much more fun than it is now and its not even close.

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Speak for yourself. It's WAY more fun now than it was then. And you're right that it's not even close. Not even remotely.

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Dinardo got beat by fifty points in his last game prior to being hired at LSU.

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It was 65 points.

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Hallman had one good year.

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Depends what you call a good year. He had one 10-2 season and one 8-4 season at USM, sandwiched around a 5-6 season. The 8-4 season featured wins over Alabama and Auburn and four losses by a combined margin of 12 points to Georgia (18-17), Miss. St. (13-10), Virginia Tech (20-16) and N.C. State (31-27).

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How was he (Hallman) not fired after the 3rd season?

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He had inherited an empty cupboard and struggled, but had recruited well and it looked like we were ready to contend for the SEC West in 1994. But seven turnovers including four for defensive TDs on that September afternoon at Auburn shattered everything. After that, the team found unbelievable ways to shoot itself in the foot all season despite being very good from a talent standpoint. We actually led the SEC in total defense that year.

Dear Diary....

Today, I woke up and brushed my teeth. I changed my underoos because today is Friday. I really like weather, it's kind of neato! I when I say neato, I mean it is unpredictable. I caught a trouser trout in my khaki pants with pockets one time. I was sure surprised. Spam sandwiches are good and smell like grandpa's breath!