Back to Mel Tucker day - Rabalais: Mel Tucker in the mold of LSU's most respected coaches

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Tucker also reportedly has a buyout of over $19 million

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Didn’t even realize that.

I was pretty confident we weren’t hiring Tucker anyway, but that makes me certain we’re not hiring Tucker if accurate.

It’s Mel and I’m good with that

I’m going to say this one more time. Mel Tucker is not going to be the head coach at LSU. He isn’t ready for a job of this status.

The fact that LSU is even talking about Tucker is concerning.


Either we're a top 5 school to coach at or we aren't. You dont pay top 5 money for a HC who's beaten

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Northwestern
Youngstown St.
Miami
Nebraska
Western Kentucky
Rutgers
Indiana
Michigan

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Uh...did Saban "know the landscape" before he got here....NO! We dont necessarily need someone who was or is connected to LSU

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Tucker knows the landscape. He was defensive backs coach in 2000

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Wow he was a position coach for one full season.

One of us!!!

and you'd be correct.

Rabalais just pitching easy consumables.

I don’t understand why people keep saying we have to have a coach in place for recruiting. It’s pretty stupid to let the coaches you really want to fall off the table essentially for timing reasons. At the end of the day, of course we and Scotty care about the incoming class, but no way Scotty goes way down his list to save one class versus adding stability for years to come.

Many people have brought up how timing will play a huge part in this. I agree it will be a variable, but it’s not very smart to make it THE variable. I just don’t think Scotty is that short sighted.

Didn’t we already have a coach that was a good recruiter? Would you rather keep the class for this year strong with a lessor coach? Or would you rather have a lessor class with a program changing coach? To me, it’s a non issue. I am confident that Scotty feels the same. I am also confident he’s not an idiot.

I am so sick of hearing about timing. Listen, money and the LSU brand speaks for itself.

I personally don’t know how to feel about Tucker. I, like most on here, want a big name. I wish the optics wouldn’t be crippling to chase Meyer, but unfortunately they just are. I really like Lincoln, but he still hasn’t figured out that you have to have a respectable defense to win in the playoffs. How has he not changed that? Has he even looked or asked for more money to go get him someone respectable? If he has, did OU essentially say no?

For fun, I was devastated when we hired O. I was absolutely certain this was a joke hire. We have to hire our next coach at the complete opposite. Now, we, anyone, Scotty have to define what that is. I’m confident that Scotty will do everything in his power to get whomever he wants. He is the ultimate salesman. He will get people to at a minimum say no. Unlike our previous AD.

I guarantee you he has at least reached out to Saban. If for no other reason than simply to tell him no. No, I don’t think any amount of money would get either he or Kirby, but the ultimate salesman, assuming he is that, will at least get people to say no!

Timing will be a variable, but it will not be a major one.

a 6million dollar buyout, big pay raise for him, all on top of O and his staff's buyout....to net you Mel Tucker isn't quite palatable though

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It would take way too much money to hire Tucker for the amount of success risk, not even considering an additional buyout. Aranda and Napier have similar success risk for significantly less money. This alone should eliminate him from consideration.