Tyronne Wheatley as Porter's replacement?

I loved him on my fantasy team a decade ago.

Would hope for LSU to bring in someone with a little bit more experience to replace someone like Porter. He hasn't proven to be a good recruiter yet, and while being a Pro back helps, it doesn't guarantee anything.

Also, being a pro back doesn't mean your a good coach. If he is hired and gets $220K + year, I will be majorly pissed off, because he's obviously not earned that type of salary yet.

Also, if LSU is smart, they'll give him a 2 year contract at most.

Again, there is a lot more to recruiting than just having been a pro. It's a nice feather in your cap as a recruiter, but their is a whole lot more important factors.

Coaching skill
Personality
Dealing with parents
Winning/Earning trust
Ability to sell the program

You have to think of it two ways:

1) He's not going to be recruiting purely our running backs, he'll be recruiting a region, so why would a WR, DT, LBer, etc recruit care that this dude played running back in the pros?

2) He hasn't proven ANYTHING as a coach yet. When our guys try to recruit running backs, the families are going to expect someone who can coach. I don't think Porter was a great coach at all, but he'd been a coach at other major places and had successful running backs before coming to LSU. Big difference.

#1 because his resume is impressive and he is getting some good experience cutting in his teeth as we speak. All coaches have to get their start somewhere and he is getting his and his contacts and back ground are really solid.

#2 Because I have met and talked with him before and he seemed like a level headed and good guy and was easy to talk too. From what I remember of him I think LSU could do a lot worse. Coaching RB's is probably the easiest position to coach to be quite honest with you. It's a position that many coaches get their start at. Not to mention the guy was a stand out RB and played in the league so I'm sure he knows his stuff and thats just common sense based on who he is.