re: These guys are dug in.

Yep Saban can play musical chairs with assistants. It's the head coach's show, process etc. Saban is a wizard it. There are other good-great coaches that have good-solid assistants, but at the end of the day it's the HC. Why the whole O surrounding himself with great coordinators smoke and mirrors scheme was a hysterically awful used car sales pitch that sadly sold the LSU fan base particularly south of I-10. As awful as the concept was it still was never going to overcompensate for O sucking at head coach.

Why a good P5 program must hire they best coach they can with money and resources they have or face the situation that LSU is in with inevitably changing head coaches and starting the whole process of changing the staff and systems. Continuity never gets established.