Keeping Orgeron does have some advantages

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but I think the right decision is who is easiest to fire when things go south.

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Great attitude for the football program moving forward

the word cheap should not enter the realm of this discussion.

LSU spares no expense for its football program, from its locker rooms and weight rooms to its stadium improvements. why should it go cheap with its head coach?

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He is cheaper

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hopefully we don't get what we pay for. cheap doesn't win in cfb.

Also, when you realize by thinking about it logically about the likelyhood of LSU beating bama and winning the SEC is extremely unlikely, even if Saban was the coach due to the talent gap between the teams. So regardless of which coach gets the job , we will more than likely win 10 games a year until Saban retires.

When you see it from those glasses, it's clearly a smarter move to keep Orgeron.

LSU really screwed up by not firing les miles last year

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He is cheaper

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Awesome reason. Hire the man

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LSU is already the highest paid staff in the country without getting a bargain bin HC

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we're in penny pinching mode if you haven't heard.

saving all the money we can to buy out johnny jones.

I swear some of our fans

No one is calling it a cheap hire, I've clearly stated a cheaper hire than Jimbo. This isn't about a coach that is being hired because he is cheaper, it's a good hire that cost significantly less that gives us options to pay assistants even more than we do now.

All I'm saying is if you could theoretically look at what 5 years with Jimbo looks like, and 5 years with Orgeron looks like, you will have 2 very similar outcomes, in both recruiting and output on the field.

If you compare that ratio to the difference in cost, it's simply frivolous to pay Jimbo the amount he is asking for.

In addition to that, if Alleva and the LSU administration/boosters have any integrity and backbone you don't tell someone that you will get a fair opportunity to get the job, then have the man pass with an A-, and hire another coach who would have produced the same results given the same situation. (Jimbo as interim). The recruiting ability is on the same level, and they are both going to keep Aranda.

The only difference with Jimbo, is that you will not need a homerun OC hire, but you will get less discipline within the program. (Do you want Miles Brennan stealing crab legs?)

With Orgeron you will get a much higher disciplined team and a clean program, but your offense will be as good as your offensive coordinator.


Trust me I'm not for Orgeron for headcoach, I think that I would rather have many other proven folks out there, and I don't think being Louisiana should be the criteria for hiring someone. At the same time, you can't tell someone that they will get a fair shake, do what Orgeron did and not have have LSU get a blackeye once again for doing another coach wrong. We don't need to add fuel to the fire.

Like I've said, firing Miles last year would have been the right decision. I was as happy as anyone he was gone after Auburn and have been re-ignited since Orgeron, but I'm also realistic that the guy won the job with his performance unless he loses any of the last 2 games.

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The only major concern about Orgeron and hiring a quality offensive coordinator was the stance he took when asked about attacking Alabama like Ole Miss, and he was very adamant that, we won't do what Ole Miss is doing, "I promise you that". When I heard that it showed me he is a stubborn and doesn't have the ability to see that he needs to innovate.

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Do you remember why Miles was fired, or was that somehow irrelevant in your mind?

I seriously can't see how Aleva or any booster could look Orgeron in the eye and tell him that he didn't do a good enough job, because he didn't beat Alabama.