re: What went wrong with our coaching search

let it go.
tl;dr
dead horse.
last stage of grief.

Simply because "sites" say he'd be gone, does not make it so.
Simply because we didn't hear, in the press, that Alleva was talking to other coaches or agents (it's not the best maneuver to openly admit to talking to coaches or agents during the middle of the season...does not mean that it did not happen.

I read every other poster on here saying "there was no coaching search" or "Alleva didn't talk to anyone else" that I'm about to puke. WE DO NOT KNOW all the facts, and they won't come out anytime soon.

Prolonging the "negotiation" with Tom Herman means our guys have to wait to get on the recruiting trail with only a few days to spare.

Two words - Joe Alleva

I honestly think you began to ask your first question right out of the gate here:

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and a parallel question is "how difficult is it to get an established successful HC to coach in the SEC West"

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We fans get ourselves wrapped around the axle wondering why a "premiere program" like LSU couldn't attract better candidates and/or making Alleva the fall guy for LSU's inabillity to attract better candidates to such an obviously great program.

But what if coaches who, under different circumstances, would've jumped at the chance to run this program chose not to because of Bama? You can even argue that LSU, Auburn, and (maybe) A&M are the only three programs in the West that feel as if they should win the conference on a regular basis.

The rest sort of know their place in the order of things, and are more likely to snag a good coach who knows the Miss St fanbase, for example, will live with 7-8 win season in perpetuity because that's just the way it is...oh, and still get paid $4 mil or more in the process.

So, yeah, I think LSU's destination job status is compromised until Nick hangs them up.

What went wrong was Joe Alleva saying "I am the search."

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and a parallel question is "how difficult is it to get an established successful HC to coach in the SEC West"

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You have opened a discussion that I have been waiting to see. LSU saw that they were not going to get a reasoble deal for an elite HC or rising star they were willing to gamble on. Instead they took a new "experimental track by hiring an energetic HC that if successful will stay for low dollars. To offset the performance gap in the HC they will through the big money at the coordinators and use a three headed monster approach and run a superior effort by committee.

I have not seen this done before but one advantage is that it is un-doable in 3 yrs if they dont like it and want to move again for an elite HC.

This is a safe hedge against the stacked buyouts of CLM and a failed successor HC with big pricetag.

The other big risk on Herman was that he would be successful and leave and in the process take the whole staff with him.

The weakness of this experiment is that successful coordinators are promotable and you will have to replace them eventually

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before you attempt to squelch my first amendment rights I hope you read this and think about it

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1) The first amendment doesn't protect you from the people.

2) I think while Orgeron certainly has major question marks, he has a huge upside with how people respond to him. Not only will he be great in recruiting players, but a successful Coach O will loosen the wallets of big donors.

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I am not sure anything went wrong-most fans are happy with the selection

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That's hard to say. The fan base seems pretty equally split. A lot of people love him for what he represents, but others really felt like we settled.

Alleva said he was "the search." There is no evidence to support your claim that a 3rd party firm was involved. There's also zero evidence to support the claim that Alleva seriously considered anyone other than Fisher, Herman, and Orgeron. For a hire of this magnitude, what Alleva did was a farce.