re: Ed O and Craig recruiting friction/possible hires

from some of our fans perspective coach O was a bad hire because he didn't fit their image of a home run hire. that image was a proven nationally recognized coach that would give them a big "wow factor". a lot of these fans never hired or fired a person in their life;much less had responsibility for the results of an organization. these fans painted themselves in a corner intellectually and their pride was wounded when we hired what they considered a local "good ole boy". and his resume' at ole missed stunk. of all the HC's around the country that were "hirable" I think coach O is as good or better. I DEFINITELY would have been happy with Fisher, Meyer or Saban. I THINK I would have been happy with Gundy or Herman. but Orgeron has really impressed me so far. I think he has indeed been preparing himself for a second shot at being HC and that showed by how he corrected our on the field problems immediately and how decisive he has been on firing coaches that he felt LSU could improve on. a senior executive has to have the best people to compete at a very high level. it seemed les miles had some of these guys but he inherited some of them. he got lucky with chavis due to the players we had but he made many really bone headed hires and promotions.

imo, LSU had some great teams with miles due to great players and average to poor coaching. I feel that coach O will be a better coach than miles simply by recruiting quality guys to fill team needs instead of class rating and letting his very competent coaches do their job.