EVERY year is always too much competition for too many Ranters.

Florida, Texas, penn state, Michigan are teams you would have mentioned in recent years.

Next year could be,
Texas, and aTm (sumlin seems to always be a hot name). If you have faith in your program; which you should:
Recruiting, #1 reason
Coach salary
fanbase (yes, even now)
Conference
------looking for a coach doesn't start today. The day a coach gets hired, he's on the clock due to the network of ADs and agents, ask Charlie strong. He didn't have a clear vote of confidence the day he walked on.

Miles has had ten years and knows that there were times that he had to get his cardboard box ready to empty his drawers.

But "luck" and chance ironically kept him here. BOS and AD as well as any other powers that be, send out feelers.

They know who's interested and who's not: who's ready to pull the trigger and who's happy where they are.

They know the few nfl guys that want to move to college ball, they know the college coaches that aren't looking for anything but nfl.

But by all means, don't act like lsu isn't a top10 program. That is the same wins/losses expectations that the pumpers have had for the last 3 years, verbally destroying any poster that expected more. When did the pumpers turn into Ole miss fans? Understanding "seasonal expectations" and "simply expecting more over a period of time to get our shite together"are two different things.

Same it true for LSU. Remember what the program is capable of and you will realize that LSU is a coaching destination.
"hallman'ardo" couldn't even ruin lsu. A top flight great(not just good) coach WANTS to come to LSU.

You may see that a top flight coach says to himself that not even Milesveto can tank at LSU, but the new guy just needs to realize that expectations are high here, and he will take the job knowing that. In fact, being at LSU will increase his football wherewithal because he might not have ever experienced a program like us.

This post was edited on 11/17/15 at 9:03 am