re: The search must begin with BILLY DONOVAN

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It would cost a fortune to acquire Donovan or a similar big name coach for service and probably more than what they pay for O

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No question. But it would be a little more understandable to pay top dollar for someone with the credentials of Donovan vs. those of Ogeron.

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Alleva and company are not ready and will not be so to land a big name coach in bskb.

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Sadly, I agree. But don't you have to ask the question, why not? Is LSU's athletic dept strapped for cash? Yes, you're still paying your old coach a good chunk of change, but the new guy (though still overpaid) is a relative bargain as far as SEC coaches go (of course that changes if you want to fire him thanks to Alleva's top notch job of negotiation significant buyouts if O is let go). On the basketball side, while you still overpaid for what Jones was worth, his salary was on the low end of SEC coaches.

LSU is turning a profit. If they are bringing in the most money in the department's history (as someone said in another thread) then why not pay for a top tier basketball coach? In recent years Bama, MSU, Tenn., Auburn all went out and spent some money to try to hire accomplished basketball coaches. Bama has the highest paid FB coach and the second highest paid basketball coach in the SEC. Is LSU such a broke dick athletic dept that they can't afford to pay big name coaches?