Did We Even Interview Dan Lanning?

This fanbase would’ve had a shite fit if we hired a first time head coach just because he came from the Kirby coaching tree.

But yeah, in hindsight we’d be killing it.

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Hire someone with a vision. Hire someone who knows one side of the ball. Hire someone who will inject energy.

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These are buzz words. Especially when you can’t point to film where this guy actually backed it up as a head coach somewhere.

I’m not saying I would’ve been mad about it, just that I understand why we didn’t go that route.

By the way, I wonder what Jimbo Fisher is doing these days. I don’t think he needs to be head coach anywhere—I was just wondering.

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This “must hire a proven head coach” mentality is fricking retarded. Jeff Fisher, Jack Del Rio, Jimbo type of lunacy.

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I think experience was the way to go after the mess Orgeron left and not a first time head coach.

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Hire someone with a vision. Hire someone who knows one side of the ball. Hire someone who will inject energy

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Next hire has to be this.

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This fanbase would’ve had a shite fit if we hired a first time head coach just because he came from the Kirby coaching tree.

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If you are a true leader with vision you don’t hire a coach to appease the fans. You hire the best possible coach that you can see has all the characteristics, qualities, and attributes to be a great head coach for your university.

When your coach starts winning the fanbase will all fall in line behind him and love the hire.

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Next hire has to be this.

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That is a long, long ways away.

But how idiotic was it to give a man 10 million a year who had never won a national championship? We are the only idiots to give that kind of money to an ultimately unproven guy.

If Kenny Dillingham keeps improving, I want him. 35. Playoff experience. OC/QB coach in his past. Great with the portal at a school that doesn't invest nowhere near as much as here.

He is the "modern" young coach who has the hunger and fire in the new era of college football.

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These are buzz words. Especially when you can’t point to film where this guy actually backed it up as a head coach somewhere. I’m not saying I would’ve been mad about it, just that I understand why we didn’t go that route.

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This. There is a reason most of the top P4 programs aren’t hiring top coordinators as their head coaches. There is always risk involved, no matter how good you THINK they might be. Dave Arnada is a great case in point. He’s as smart as the come and if anything, the NIL and Portal era ought to help him offset his lack of killer instinct as a pure recruiter. While he hasn’t been a disaster, I’m sure Baylor was expecting better when he’s just been middling, even in a stripped down Big 12.

I think Oregon was a particular case. They just had Mario Cristobal leave them for probably the only program he would have left their money and resources for. And that was on the heels of Taggert dumping them for FSU (which was probably a blessing in disguise for the Ducks).

That aside, they wanted stability and someone who would stick around after their previous two coaches left abruptly. Giving Lanning his big break gave them that. But they were also in good shape as a program and team when he took over.

Contrast that with the position LSU was in at the time. Hindsight is great and all, but I don’t see how anyone could pick any coordinator with no head coaching experience to come in and clean up the mess we had on our hands here. That would have been a massive risk.