re: If Michigan is having so much trouble...

Like losing kids in back to back years from Thibodaux, LA.

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we're about to find out.

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all I'm saying is we're gonna end up with someone good and respected. I think Florida and Miami both hired good coaches for their programs. I don't see why LSU would be any different.

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we have a good coach.

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what does that have to do with the possibility of him leaving? I mean if he wants to go to UM he's going to go... We'll hire a suitable replacement.

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yeah no way we could lure Patterson, Mullen, Pelini, Fitzgerald or Petersen away from their jobs... You don't think ANY of them would snatch up the opportunity?

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Oh yeah.. these guys are all still where they are and couldn't be lured to ND, Michigan, or FLORIDA.... which in many OBJECIVE circles could be seen as better jobs than LSU.

And I'm not saying that they were all offered (while some obviously were).. I'm just saying that LSU is not the coaching Nirvana that some people think it is, and that a slam dunk, no fail hire is about as easy as winning the power ball right now!

Something else has to be going on at Thibodeaux High. There has to be some anti-LSU sentiment at that place. Look at West Monroe, it bleeds purple and gold because of its head coach, Don Shows. Thibodeaux needs a pro-LSU coach, and get away from the John Curtis mold!

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since they have it in their head that it needs to be a Michigan man, they are really limiting themselves...

LSU wouldn't have these same limitations...

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ETA: and no im not sucking up to the chicken

Momma,

IMO, there are several reason why LSU could get a better coach at this point in time...

1. Rich Rod has screwed that program to high hell. They are looking at some NCAA sanctions; his recruiting does not fit majority of coaches schemes. It's a 3 year rebuilding program and all though it is a storied program it's going to take a coach some serious work to build that program. Even busting tail it's not given that there is an available coach that will be able to handle this task.

2. LSU is talented and is looking to bring in another top five program. Much of this is a credit to our staffs recruiting ability, but a good bit of it is LSU being the only large school in the state. It helps that LA produces a bunch of talent. Michigan has to recruit nationally. When the program is back up, it won't have a problem doing this, but it will take a strong coach to get it there.

3. Right now LSU has shown a bit more willingness to spend on it's program. Not just head coaching, but also assistant coaching, facilities, etc.

4. Lloyd Carr...LSU doesn't have him and he is really screwing Michigan some kind of bad. He needs to be shown the door.

5. SEC ball. Most coaches I know want to play and beat the best. Where better to do it then in the SEC. Look at the HC talent in the SEC. Enough said.

I will say this though. LSU will be in a bind at this point in time too if Les does leave. This time of year is the arse end of the carousel and most coaches have tipped their hand with the UF and Miami opening.

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TCU can pay more than LSU. (TCU's endowment is $1 billion + dollars and LSU is around half of that.)

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could but won't come near 3.5 million. Huge difference between what a school will and won't do. That kind of salary for a football coach is considered insane to most outside of the SEC (short of UT, OU etc...)

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CU is going to the Big East and will have an easy run to a BCS game every year. Not the same story in the SEC.

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some coaches actually prefer the tougher job because it comes with more glory. Plus look at Cincinnati who went undefeated and didn't make the NCG

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TCU fans love him, where half of the LSU fans would hate him.

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no offense but this wouldn't even be a consideration of his

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getting paid bank

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less than half of what Miles makes.

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getting paid bank


less than half of what Miles makes.

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could but won't come near 3.5 million. Huge difference between what a school will and won't do. That kind of salary for a football coach is considered insane to most outside of the SEC (short of UT, OU etc...)

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I'm sure he get's "incentives" from boosters and the big money from TCU and TCU would give him a raise and extension if LSU would come calling.

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TCU fans love him, where half of the LSU fans would hate him.

no offense but this wouldn't even be a consideration of his

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Job security? Absolutely! Miles just won 10 games lossing to the #2 team and #9 team in the country and people want to run him out of town. Patterson could go 6-6 the next two or three years before people would say anything.

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look at Cincinnati who went undefeated and didn't make the NCG

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Yeah, but TCU was already in the discussion for the championship game this year if Oregon or Auburn would have lost. If they are in the Big East, they will likely get that chance. WVU was one win away from the BCS National Championship game a few years ago.

Just saying he'd have to listen to LSU at the least. Would he come here? I don't know. But I think to say that there is absolutely no shot is sort of wrong.