Would Eli Drinkwitz Be Gerry Dinardo 2.0?

Dinardo wasn’t in the top 11 of highest paid coaches in the country when we hired him. He was relatively cheap and easy to get rid of. Drinkwitz is going to ask for a top 5 salary with a huge buyout. If we want to go the Dinardo route we’d have to pay about half of what Drinkwitz wants if adjusted for current college football salaries.

I got a picture of Gerry holding me up as a 1 year old on the front page of BR newspaper

Drinkwitz is like paying $100K for a Toyota Corolla. Decent car and reliable, but not worth close to the price tag. LSU will be upside down with his contract and buyout.

I posted this in another thread but think it’s relevant here.

I will say this:

Drink would very likely be better than Kelly. I don’t think it’s that easy for mizzou to get elite talent.

I have watched a fair amount of mizzou games and I consistently come away impressed that he doesn’t make stupid coaching decisions and his teams always play hard. You know he is tired of being somewhere that doesn’t get much credit for their accomplishments.

That all said-he is not worth backing up a brinks truck for in my opinion. I am like most here that think we are better figuring out a younger hungry coach w lower base and buyout but incentive heavy based contract.

If going that route I think Aleksy Goelesh has an amazing drive and a program building skillset. Does that mean he will be able to make the leap into the SEC? Who knows? My second choice in this scenario is Morris from North Texas.

As far as Lane is concerned you, me, and everyone else who is honest are gonna lose our collective minds watching him stupidly go for unnecessary fourth downs in bad scenarios. I have seen a couple of those decisions cost him games. If he tightens that up then he could potentially crush at a place like LSU. You absolutely know for a fact that he thinks and knows he can coach circles around coach O and it has to eat at him a little bit that O has a National Title and he doesn’t. He has to know if O did it at LSU then he sure as hell could.

Unfortunately, unless they go after Morris, or a coach in the lower tier conferences or a Coordinator the salary they are going to get is going to be a high one.

Man, Gerry brought the magic back. We owe a lot to that dude. He convinced Kevin to stay in state. He built a tough team but Cecil did Cecil things and the wheels came off.