re: What coaching hire would have LSU in a different spot?

In recruiting? Impossible to know.

Herman has locked down Texas so it's likely to believe that he would have done that in Louisiana also. Plus he would have had a lot of Texas connections. I would say we would be doing better there, but impossible to know.

Jimbo would have also had recruiting locked down. He would have also had an offseason with Brennan, so who knows where we would be offensively.

Either way, the future would be brighter with these two guys IMO, but impossible to know for sure.