Passed up Spurrier in 1990 for Curley Hallman a “young promising coach”

We can’t overthink this in 2025. We can’t say “What if Lane was our coach..” I think we have a big opportunity here

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Posted by armytiger96

Member since Sep 2007

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Posted on 10/29/25 at 12:02 am to cajuntiger1010

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Passed up Spurrier in 1990 for Curley Hallman a “young promising coach”

I'm guessing you weren't around then. They passed on Spurrier who was a "young promising coach" when Bill Arnsberger left. Instead we hired another young promising coach, Mike Archer, at Bill's suggestion. Mike Archer was the youngest D1 Coach at the time.

Bill went on to be the AD at FL and hired Spurrier. The rest is history. This is why most LSU fans refuse to consider a coordinator as a coach.

Archer started off great but didn't sustain the momentum b/c he couldn't recruit.

We hired Hallman to replace Archer a couple of years later.

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When Archer took the LSU head coaching job, he was 34 years old, the youngest head coach in Division I-A football. Archer was chosen over a number of interviewed candidates, which reportedly included Steve Spurrier, Mike Shanahan, and Mack Brown.

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Posted by Indiana Tiger

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Posted on 10/29/25 at 5:46 am to armytiger96

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They passed on Spurrier who was a "young promising coach" when Bill Arnsberger left. I

Actually, Spurrier was an unemployed ex-USFL head coach (league folded). At the time he was out of football for over a year. Before being hired as the head coach of Duke (where he previously worked as a successful assistant), he was passed over at Mississippi State who went with Rocky Felker. Arnsparger hired Spurrier at Florida the year before we fired Archer.

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Posted by r0cky1

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Posted on 10/29/25 at 6:06 am to cajuntiger1010

You do realize they were only 2 years apart in age?

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