re: Questioning Joe Alleva's ability to make a good hire is ridiculious

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Dude, LSU is a perennial mediocre program and there is no way LSU can compete with the current openings

why would a coach want to come here?

do you not remember the 90s?

#NeverForgetThe90s

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I don't think anyone has said that LSU couldn't "compete" with the current job openings. The questions are (1) who exactly would they be competing for? and (2) can you unequivocally say that person would do a better job than Les Miles?

I (and I'm sure most pragmatic fans) aren't necessarily against making a change. I am however against making a change with no clear plan for a replacement other than thinking, "We're LSU. We can get any coach we want." Why fire a guy who you KNOW has been a very good HC at your school to bring in a yet unknown coach who may or may not be a good HC for your program?

As far as I can tell, there are no highly successful coaches out there who may be looking for a job change. Now if the AD knows that someone like Pete Carroll, John Harbaugh, Urban Myer, heck even Jimbo Fisher, is quietly looking to make a change at the end of the year, then I certainly wouldn't have a problem with nabbing one of those guys while the timing is right. However, LSU is not in a position where they HAVE to make a change because the program has bottomed out.

What would be worse? Keeping a consistently good Les Miles and hoping he makes the necessary changes to go from consistently very good to consistently championship great? Or, hiring an up and comer who MIGHT be good, but might also wreck the program for several years (see Tennessee when they got rid of Fulmer)? And don't be naive enough to thing that LSU can't fall from the ranks of contender very quickly. Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Texas, USC, Michigan all were powerhouses that fell from grace to become bad to mediocre programs for some period of time.