re: Refresh My Memory on Why Dinardo Was Hired

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Our sentence for helping Mac Pack was 20 years in the coaching wilderness.

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Revisionist history. The next nine years after he was let go was better than the last nine years he was here. It wasn't until 1989, a full TEN YEARS after he was let go, that the program went into the tank. Unless you think Mac would have coached for ten more years if he hadn't been let go (which would have put him close to 80 when he retired), he would have been gone before then in any case. And even if he did last until then, unless he coached ANOTHER five years (until he was well over 80), we still would have been looking for a new coach around 1990 or 1991, just as we were anyway.

Letting Mac go IMPROVED the program for nine years. Hiring Mike Archer ten years later when Steve Spurrier and others were available was what put LSU in a bad situation in football.

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I wonder how long the football gods will punish us if we topple the Hat.

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If they "punish" us the same way they did when we let Mac go (i.e. nine years of improved performance), sign us up today!