re: 1989 Football revisited

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There would have been no curley, who you seem to think had success here

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lol, wut? feel free to quote me where I said Curley had success at LSU. I stated he was a good recruiter and terrible at everything else.

Also, feel free to name these stud recruits who left LSU because of earrings, and I'm assuming they wound up elsewhere and were wildly successful, so please enlighten me.

Just because Curley sucked doesn't mean that Archer was good. In fact, Archer started the decline. That really isn't even up for debate except for his cousins on here. If we kept Archer another year, that would have been another year without any talent or direction.

Short answer to what happened in 1989:

fricking Arnsbarger screwed us because of him recommending Archer knowing he was going to get he UF job and was going to fire Hall and hire Spurrier.

Archer didn't adjust to the prop 48 issues like other SEC coaches specifically Spurrier and Dooley to a lesser extent.Bama and Auburn cheated so bad during those years I pretty much exclude anything they did including the 1992 Bama team. The NCAA caught them and should have stripped that team of the title but the tenicality was proving the issue happened in 1992. I'm old and don't remember the details from all of that mess.

Curley staying at Southern Miss would have been the best thing for him and LSU. He won there including beating Bama twice in 4 years. Go look at their schedule and you will see that they played a lot of SEC schools sometimes 2 (and maybe 3?) a year so he beat SEC schools.
Our players were out of control academically and off the field during Archers tenure. That's why they wanted a disciplinarian. The problem was those players on the team that were there when he arrived, we're not committed to follow the process after Archer gave them free reigns at the school. There was ZERO accountability and respect with Archer. So when Hallman arrived he was fighting a culture that DGAF.

His Southern Miss team was loaded. Personally know players that started for him during Favres time and beyond and all states that the LSU job was too big for him. Meaning he had control of his recruits and they listened to him. That's a fact directly from his former players that I know personally.