Fox Sports' Bruce Feldman Suggests Jimbo Fisher Remains Top Target For Scott Woodward

College football analyst Bruce Feldman joined Fox Sports' "Breaking the Huddle" with Joel Klatt this week and talked about LSU's head coaching search.

Feldman said LSU AD Scott Woodward is still making a run at Texas coach Jimbo Fisher and also talked about Michigan State's Mel Tucker as an option. Per On3.com:

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“The LSU [coaching search] is really interesting because even though Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M had said he plans to remain on at A&M — and that kind of doused a lot of the speculation that Scott Woodward, the AD at LSU, would be able to hire him again,” explained Feldman. “Remember Woodward — when he was the AD at A&M — was able to pry Jimbo Fisher away from FSU.

“From what I’m hearing from people around LSU is that Scott Woodward is not giving up easily. And he feels like he may be able to pull Jimbo Fisher again even though the A&M people are like ‘no, that’s not happening.’ So we’ll see how that plays out.”

If Fisher stays in College Station, though, Feldman says Mel Tucker could be the guy in Baton Rouge:

“Mel Tucker is a guy that has obviously had a terrific year and done a really good job turning around Michigan State,” Feldman continued. “He’s a former LSU assistant, former Nick Saban assistant. He is very well thought of by a lot of people inside LSU, especially some really influential people.

“But ultimately this will be Scott Woodward’s hire. Can Jimbo Fisher really say no to him? We’ll see.”

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Klatt wrapped up the segment by saying he has heard LSU 'has a large blank check' to get the coach they want:

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Well, [Jimbo Fisher] has $9 million reasons to stay. So I guess Woodward would have to come up with $10 or $11 million reasons to leave," Klatt said.


"But I have been told that the check is blank at LSU and it's large. Whatever he needs, speaking of Scott Woodward, he's going to get from some of the donors down there to go and get their next coach."

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