re: The "Why would (insert coach) want to come here" Argument

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I guarantee you Jimbo wanted to be the HC at LSU when they hired Miles.

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Six face-to-face interviews were conducted from Dec. 26-30: then-LSU assistants Bobby Williams and Jimbo Fisher; Nutt, who had just finished his seventh season at Arkansas; former Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum; Miles; and then-Louisville coach Bobby Petrino.

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Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer were Bertman’s top choices, he admits, but they were taken.

Spurrier had just returned to the college game at South Carolina, and Meyer had recently been hired at Florida. LSU was starting its search late.

“Nick put us in a tough spot,” Weems said.

If LSU got into the mix before South Carolina, “We could have had Spurrier,” one committee member said.

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