re: How would Spurrier have done if he came to LSU in 1987?

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That's the real question but the answer is probably easier. He would've done what he did at Florida but with more titles as he'd have the same or better talent but less competition (no Miami or FSU to recruit against, weaker SEC division at the time). What say you?

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He probably would not have had a losing season in 1989 and probably would have bolted for Florida after that season when that job opened up.

An important factor in LSU’s resurgence that people over look is how much more money LSU is putting into the program now. . The facilities back then were substandard. Joe Dean ran a very tight budget. He settled for DiNardo because he wasn’t willing to pay for someone better like Mack Brown who had interest. Dean didn’t even want to fire DiNardo and wanted to lowball Saban. Lucky for us, Emmert overruled him. DiNardo lost Carl Reese in part because Reese got a huge pay raise to take the DC job at Texas. Now the only way we’d lose assistants is if they take promotion. Frank Wilson is making more than a lot of OC’s for example.

A good coach is important, but he needs the institutional support. LSU lacked that for a long time. It took Emmert who made people realize that while the AD may be in the black, they were leaving money, lots of money on the table by being cheap with the FB program.