Any news of LSU Coaching changes?

TE coach position is open but not a whole lotta smoke around it.

Pretty quiet coaching changes season this year in general. Think the NIL atmosphere has made schools reevaluate the recent tradition of “pay for the best coaches and get the best roster”

Paying 2 mil to poach a high valued assistant is 2 mil you could just put towards your roster

Could eat these words but I think we’re gonna have a lot less of an active coaching carousel in this era as it currently is constructed

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Who’s the new OC gonna be?

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Did we fire/demote our current OC?

Billy Gonzales

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Who’s the new OC gonna be?

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I think we stick with Sloan

really gonna stick with sloan? all the new weapons coming in i'm worried he'll be clueless again

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If anything, the current state of NIL will make coaching more cutthroat.

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Not sure what you’re defining as cutthroat here but I’m simply making a guess based on the changing economics in the sport

Players previously were a very static and renewable resource that was heavily impacted by location, program history and other predetermined factors, with the biggest impact to improving the roster was through making direct investment into the coaching staffs. Getting that signature on signing day typically meant you had that player for atleast 3 seasons unless you decided otherwise to kick them off. And if they did transfer, it was off to FCS or JUCO to never be heard from again

Naturally the market incentivizes the schools (boasters and decision makers at each college) to seek out having the top of the line in all of those predetermined categories AND coaching staffs. This would then increase the overall appeal to recruits overall and eventually and ideally you get a championship level team. SEC had money to burn so it was a space race to the best facilities, the best perks, and most of all the best coaches. Coaches thus had all the leverage in the world to flirt with every job to get an ever increasing pay raise year over year


With the unrestricted movement of the portal, players are allowed to reset to find their highest market bidder each year. So the equation is much more direct and the price tag is listed front and center. Teams simply buy the roster they can afford each season with a little bit of high school recruiting thrown in for old times sake. So the incentives have changed. Now sure the best DC in the country would be a good pitch for recruiting, but is it beating the value of the dollars and cents that another team is writing for those players that that same buyout/high salary money could be going to?

But a mid major P5 or even G5 school may be find that high spend on assistants much more fruitful because of the development and growth of talent they can offer for rosters that would likely have less turnover outside of the players moving up each year

Again I’m just pissing in the wind making a guess based on the ever changing economics and dynamics of the sport. Could certainly still just be more money still spent on coaching as well, and to be clear I am not saying coaches will go broke. I just think it might level out more like the high school level where there’s a lower ceiling but the resources provided in NIL and elsewhere are the drivers of where the top coaches go.


We’ve already seen top coaches basically get leveraged into giving back large lump sums of their huge contracts to add to NIL. I may be wrong about my guess above, but it’s still clear the market dynamics have shifted dramatically for coaches with the current environment

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Any news of LSU Coaching changes?

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unfortunately looking like BK is going to be retained.