re: Short List of LSU Men's Basketball Coaching Candidates

Billy Gillespie would actually be a perfect fit here. He worked wonders at Texas A&M, another school that doesn't give a shite about basketball unless they're winning.

He's an alchi and a poor people's person, but a really good recruiter and coach. He was a terrible fit at Kentucky, where you have to be a greasy tool bag recruiter and glad hand the boosters constantly (see Calipari, John).

A&M was a worthless program prior to Gillespie. He's not going to be able to do much at Tech besides maybe get them to the tournament every few years.

Mark Few is not leaving a power that he built in Gonzaga for our empty PMAC. Smart just turned down a better job in Illinois.

I'm not sure if Buzz Williams would step down from a better job at Marquette to go LSU, where he's always going to be second to football and maybe third to baseball.

Jamie Dixon would be a decent hire, but he's a bit of a choker come tournament time.

Randy Bennett at St. Mary's would be the best hire in my opinion. He's worked wonders at a nobody program, by leaching off of Gonzaga's success in their conference. He's developed under-recruited kids like Omar Samhan, Patty Mills (lighting it up for the Spurs now), and Matthew Dellavadova. He's also got some weird recruiting connection to Australia, which produces decent college basketball talent.

LSU basketball is perhaps one of the shittiest major conference jobs in the country. It's perhaps one of the few decent basketball jobs, that is behind freaking college baseball (terribly supported outside of the south). Recruits don't want to play in front of empty seats, and fans won't come unless we're winning or playing a big time team = terrible situation for a good coach.