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

O seriously needs to strengthen his assistant coaching staff.

Some good ones on there, but also some that have no place at LSU.

He got rid of some dead weight on the staff, (BDP, Juluke and Craig) but retained a really rotten piece of Pork (I guess for the great BBQ sauce) and made 2 really bad additional hires that shouldn't have been.

I'm not even going to mention names here. All those that have any degree of LSU football knowledge, full well know the ones that I'm referring to.

All 3 will have to be removed after the season if the program is to move forward.

Gotta hire the Saban way. You have to be a great technical football coach first, a good recruiter second and have proven experience third. Need to have all 3 of those attributes to be on his Staff. (And to stay there)

Both Miles and Orgeron seem to be mistaken in that you can load up on great "Used Car Salesmen" Assistants that can only recruit (But have no tech coaching ability) and still have great success. We can only hope that O is learning this and will make the needed corrections after the season.

That's the only reason he's getting a little leniency from Semjase this year.

Meanwhile, Herman (My Choice) already has Texas looking like a totally new program in only 5 games. Watch how fast he cleans up Strong's mess and turns UT around. Most any other AD would have sold, marketed and promoted LSU to get him to LSU. (But we all know what happened)