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re: LSU will be the most coveted HC position in a long time
Posted on 11/22/15 at 5:42 pm to gatorubet
Posted on 11/22/15 at 5:42 pm to gatorubet
quote:The problem is I don't think you can do that with these long-tenured past-success coaches. Either they view themselves as the program, or when what worked X years ago doesn't now it's either the players failing to execute (which happens all the time) and/or assistants have failed to coach them up properly. It's like a general who fights the last war (or battle). Or like the generals in WWI who didn't account for the enemy adjusting (belt fed machine guns) and kept telling soldiers to run across barren muddy hole ridden ground with artillery landing on them up to the point they are in range of the MG's... then wonder why it didn't work. The answer they come up is "well, it worked against Napoleon, so it's not me, the troops are unmotivated, I'll court martial a couple and that'll fix the problem".
Get Les a hot young OC and tell him to stay the hell out of the way would be a better plan. Let the wunderkind bring in the hot QBs, and get rid of the predictable and boring offense. Les is a recruiting beast. The rest can be accomplished with assistants.
The list of these are long, just off the top of my head:
Parsigian
Holtz
Bowden
Majors
M. Brown
Schembechler
Hayes
Robinson, 2 of them (USC & Grambling)
Alvarez
Paterno
Exceptions: Saban (has repeated success), Ferentz (just now getting to ceiling), Meyer (left on his own at right time)
I'm probably missing a few on both lists. Again, just off top of my head.
All had to be forced out as a retiree, left until health caught up with them, or out right fired after a couple years of not being able to match past successes. Except for Woody and . He just went rockers
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