re: One of the best descriptions about how the Orgeron hiring process went down.

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It seems some folks at LSU bought the idea that Orgeron could be their Dabo Swinney, where he does all the other stuff and leaves the coaching to his high-paid coordinators. But that notion implies a fundamental misunderstanding of what a head coach means.

Yes, the Clemson model put a priority on high-paid coordinators with significant autonomy to run their units. But that doesn’t give enough credit to the importance of culture and how well Swinney runs the organization. You can’t be an effective CEO if you’re not a good leader, and coordinators are only going to be as good as their head coach allows and inspires them to be. LSU got outplayed and outcoached on Saturday by Troy.

That falls on one man’s shoulders, and LSU needs to figure out quickly whether it signed up for a permanent condition or has the stomach to pay its way out of the ditch.

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