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re: For the old-timers...when did Cholly Mac first get on the hot seat?
Posted on 1/30/13 at 2:51 pm to dimet
Posted on 1/30/13 at 2:51 pm to dimet
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The slippery slope began with Mike Miley choosing pro baseball over LSU football at the start of the '74 season. LSU had implemented the veer offense to fit the talents of both Miley and Carl Otis Trimble. It just wasn't successful. The '77 recruiting class was the class that many felt would put Coach Mac back on top...it was a talent rich group. But losing both Tommy Wilcox to Alabama and John Fourcade to Ole Miss in '78 was the precursor to his dismissal. Thought the '77 and '78 years were reasonably successful,Coach Mac could not lure new coaches to LSU because of his lack of job security. The BOS did Coach Mac no favors his last 2 years at LSU. He moved coaches around on the staff to just fill holes of those that had left...Coach Randall, the DL coach, Barry Wilson, the OL asst. coach and Lynn Amedee, the QB coach and OC...his last staff,('79),was a shadow of what it once was. The BOS bringing in Mr. Dietzel just insured the inevitable.
Not to mention a few years before he lost out on two of the greatest Louisiana QBs to ever put on pads: Terry Bradshaw and Joe Ferguson
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Posted on 1/30/13 at 3:28 pm to MonroeTiger80
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Not to mention a few years before he lost out on two of the greatest Louisiana QBs to ever put on pads: Terry Bradshaw and Joe Ferguson
Bradshaw couldn't get in LSU, by his own admission. We got Bert Jones instead of Ferguson, so we were hardly hurting for QB's.
Posted on 2/1/13 at 10:00 am to MonroeTiger80
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Not to mention a few years before he lost out on two of the greatest Louisiana QBs to ever put on pads: Terry Bradshaw and Joe Ferguson
Terry Bradshaw, believe or not couldn't get in LSU. La Tech said they'd take care of him academically and they did. Ferguson was NEVER going anywhere else but Arkansas.
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