re: If O hits a home run with OC hire will everyone come down off the cliff?

No, no one will come off the cliff until O proves he can win consistently and put a real, threatening offense out on the field.

Right now all we have is a head coach with a career losing record that hasn't done anything Miles wouldn't have. The offensive "explosion" shouldn't shock anybody, it's like everyone forgot last season's 7-0 start and we were breaking offensive records with Fournette while we beat up on awful teams.

I'm worried myself because top notch OCs are few and far between. Everyone says that they will come to LSU for money but as we've seen many times, money is not everything to these guys. And the top notch ones will most likely be getting head coaching jobs very soon.

O is a fantastic recruiter, but you know what? He has to compete with Saban, Kirby Smart, and several others that like to pick recruits from our area.

This is O's big chance and I sincerely hope he succeeds. Our administration fricked this up massively and if this doesn't work out we could become the next Tennessee.

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nope. I don't think the melt ends until O actually wins some games.

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Well we fired our coach cause he couldnt get us into the elite category we thought we should be in.

So thats my bar for O. Elite. Now i think he has about a 2% chance of getting there so i will stand firmly on the edge of cliff.

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O didn't do anything wrong. I don't see a reason to melt and personally hate O. Joe is the one that failed at his job. The goal post keep moving for each melt from omg texas is going to steal dave to stupid shite like ensminger being the oc which isn't happening.

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Getting Ponamsky on board, playing political games, etc.

O did plenty wrong, he schemed his way into the position, and is probably lying about the whole "dream job" thing.

Granted, it worked, so well done on that, but O isn't innocent just because he fooled our administration into the decision.

And well, if Kiffin was in the binder, then takes another job....his plan is then also a lie. I don't think Kiffin is the best hire anyways, but that's not the point. If O sold himself with Kiffin on board, and can't close that, what does that say about the rest of his plan? We didn't hire O because he's an offensive or defensive genius. We hired O for consistency and because he would "bring in the best hires." If he can't do what he proposed....that doesn't bode well for the future.

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Even supporters of this hire admit that O is not an elite coach...they hope he will hire elite staff and let them coach.

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LOL, I'm laughing to myself here at work. I can't believe what we actually hired here.

We hired someone that lets his coaches coach. They could've saved a ton of money and gone down to Price LeBlanc Toyota, hired their best salesman and made that guy HC. He certainly would've let the coaches coach. Car salesmen and recruiters, it's the same damn skill set.

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It's not nearly so funny right now.

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Depends on the audience. Other fan bases are laughing their asses off over big time LSU hiring a DL coach who was a complete failure the last time he had full of an SEC football program.