re: QBs are more important than HCs. LSU should focus on player $$$, not HC $$$.

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Mentioning Miles actually works against your point. The man was 1 game away from the greatest season in CFB history and did it riding Jarrett Lee and Jordan freaking Jefferson.

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And what one position was Miles lacking in that National Championship game?

What was the one position that kept Miles from further success with the exception of Flynn and Mettenberger?

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Coaches are the constant, but team success rises and falls on QB success. Ask Dabo Swinney or just about any other college football head coach. With NIL, teams can buy QB talent just as reliably as teams can buy HC talent.

Teams are currently cycling through HCs at $10 million per year. Teams can cycle through top QBs at less than half that rate.

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This is stupid.

There are a couple dozen multimillionaire college QB's that aren't going to touch a national championship already, and no matter how much you pay a QB, they can quit and leave at any moment.

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I’d rather LSU go 0-12 every year than pay any player a dime. This NIL crap has ruined college sports.

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Dear homo erectus,

Football has moved on from your prehistoric paradigm.

Evolve or die.

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Has anyone posted the "Why not both?" image?

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Amen brother. If LSU can afford both, then I'm 100% onboard.

But can LSU afford both?

Or more appropriately, can LSU afford championship quality talent and a record-breaking salary head coach? LSU has lost a lot of talent to higher bidders in the recent past.

I’d rather not watch if they do not do anything to control this. At least have a salary cap or something. I miss the days with players with Louisiana last names that wanted to play for LSU and not cry about NIL.

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Jayden Daniels -- One of the best QBs and offenses of the 2000s, but LSU couldn't win anything of importance because Brian Kelly & Co. were incompetent. Team was pretty loaded. You all will blame Matt House (rightfully so), but HCs hire their coordinators.

Tell me more about how players > coaching...

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I'll blame lack of talent on the defense.

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recent national champion quarterbacks also include those QBs who carried their coach: Burrow, Lawrence, Watson, Winston, Newton, Young

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This is a simplistic viewpoint that’s a by product of the “win it all or you suck”
mentality that frankly has no understanding of how these world let alone football works. Including all these as if they are same shows any lack of critical thinking or understanding beyond looking a the final result and working back from that to form a narrative.

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This is a simplistic viewpoint that’s a by product of the “win it all or you suck” mentality that frankly has no understanding of how these world let alone football works. Including all these as if they are same shows any lack of critical thinking or understanding beyond looking a the final result and working back from that to form a narrative.

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It is part of a simplistic response to the simplistic argument to which it responded.

A more nuanced response would note that teams with successful seasons are more often determined by the talent of the QB than the talent of the coach. College football is littered with coaches who toil in relative obscurity using the same scheme until they hit on a major talent at QB who lights up the scheme.

To be sure, there have been talented coaches who have succeeded with less talented QBs. But those coaches are few and far between. Saban certainly succeeded with less talented QBs. He is the exception rather than the rule, and he had so much talent stockpiled at every other position, he did not need exceptionally talented QBs in the beginning and middle of his career.

Moreover, there is no guarantee that any college football team can hold onto a coach who can overcome talent at the QB position. Certainly, LSU did not hold onto Saban. There is no guarantee that Kiffin, if he came to LSU, would not leave for the NFL.

Finally, although my OP tends to focus on the QB position, the title of my OP and the general thrust of my argument is that talent is more important than the head coach. In the NIL era, dollars have to be allocated. My position is that dollars should spent with emphasis on talent rather than head coaching.

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Look at what Elko has done in just two years after Jimbo wasted tons of A&M QB talent.

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Is it Elko or is it Reed? LSU was beating Wegman. The Aggies are 16th in total offense and time of possession.

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Arch Manning, $6.8m
Carson Beck, $4.3m
Garrett Nussmeier, $3.8m
LaNorris Sellers, $3.7m
DJ Lagway, $3.7m
Cade Klubnik, $3.4m
Drew Allar, $3.1m

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And those hires were lazy decisions that were made mostly by coaches who no longer have jobs because of the lazy and bad decisions they've made.