Looking at some of the suggestions I'm starting to see

why LSU football was down for so many years.

Some of you don't get it. As Evil Twin says, you hire the damned resume. We are the number one team in the country. If there is not a PROVEN record of success and some championships in the background, we should not even look at the coach.

Some pro coaches are suggested on this board despite the fact they have never won anything in the NFL. What exactly has Del Rio done that makes him so special? He has not been a terribly successful coach but for his lack of success we are going to reward him with the top program in the country? I don't think so.

Some are pushing Croom. Why? I like Croom alot. Great character. But his record, well, sucks. There is a reason he was a position coach in the NFL for so long. His record at MSU sucks. He is beating so called SEC powers like Bama and Auburn when they are having down years. He has not been a good recruiter (Bower and Ogeron have outrecruited him on a regular basis). He has a losing record in the SEC. Hmmm..didn't Dinardo? and look how that turned out. WHY do you hire to be a coach of hte top program someone like Croom that has a LOSING record?

Others are suggesting assistants that have never been head coaches. We are the number one team, not an internship for a brand new head coach. How many coordinators succeed when promoted straight to head coach at a major program besides Stoops? Spurrier, Erickson, Jimmy Johnson, Miles, Saban, Stallings, etc were all head coaches at other programs.

Use Bama as an example. The only coaches with success since bear was Stallings and Francione. Previous head coach experience. Shula, Dubose were assistants. They fared miserably. Auburn hires Tuberville. He was coach at Ole Miss.

Some of you don't have it in your heads that we are the top program in the country and need to act like it. You want dominance? Then you copy Miami: Schnellenberger, Johnson, Erikson. They kept hiring WINNING head coaches. The promote an assistant, guess what? he loses. You copy Florida: Hire Spurrier and Meyer, proven winners, NOT Zook, who was an experiment.

You also hire coaches that have a commitment to strong defenses. You don't win championships without them. You damn sure can't win the SEC until you have one. The other defenses are too damn good and when they do shut down your offense, you are going to need a defense to beat them.

You want to do it the joe dean way, then expect joe dean results. Its a good thing some on this board have nothing to do with picking coaches. We would be right back in the middle or bottom of the SEC.