re: Who was a more questionable hire Mike Archer, Curley Hallman, Gerry DiNardo or Ed Orgeron?

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When LSU hired Archer that had more wins in the previous 4 seasons than at any time in LSU history (1984-1987) and they had Steve Spurrier begging for the gig. If people can’t see how that is worse than bumbling the transition from Les to Orgeron I can’t help them .

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I view the question as questionable "at the time of hire." In retrospect, of course the Archer-Spurrier situation is WAY worse (as of now, if Jimbo or Herman kill it then this will look just as bad as that). Archer was chosen by Arnsparger right? Spurrier was just pretty successful at Duke over a few season. I could be wrong but Archer was a coordinator with good experience, and some high performing teams. The gap was much smaller between he and Spurrier than between O and more than a few dozen options we could have had out there.