re: Can LSU afford to fire its current defensive staff and hire new ones?

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youre acting as though this was a reasonable and fiscally prudent decision

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What he did was buy the only title winning coach who was available on the market. Before that point, all A&M had was big talk and cash. It was the first time they actually took that money and made a splash with it.

I know it didn’t work out. Jimbo decided to get stubborn right when college football was shifting. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a smart calculated risk. Let’s roll back the clock a few years. We made Nick Saban a top 10 paid coach when he had never done more than beat Michigan, Penn St, and go to a couple of bowl games at Michigan St. We overpaid big time based on potential and because we were down at the time. We had to overpay to get him. A&M was in the same boat with Jimbo.

After O’s last two years, a big contract with plenty of security was also the only way to land an established coach better than Stoops here. Did you miss the cold shoulder he got from the A&M fanbase?