LSU Coaching Search, 1983. Surely I misread.

I mean, this has to be wrong. Surely Brodhead did what REAL AD’s do and wrote, “When Vermeil turned me down, I got my little feelings hurt and to spite him, I hired a career position coach who was the worst coach in Ole Miss history. I then stuck my tongue out at Vermeil and told him: ‘I’ve got somebody who WANTS the job!’”

WHAT?? He continued the search and contacted proven, winning coaches?

That’s not how you do it!

Two weeks later, following a 27-24 loss to Ole Miss in Jackson, I had seen enough. I began my search for a new head coach.

I contacted Dick Vermeil, the successful coach-turned-TV-color-analyst, through his broadcast partner; Frank Glieber. Vermeil, who had claimed burn-out when he walked away from the Philadelphia Eagles a short time eariler, wasn't interested. I contacted Mike White of the University of Illinois through his business manager. At White's prices, I wasn't interested. I thought about contacting University of Maryland Head Coach Bobby Ross and several other prospects when I decided to pursue a comment which had been made to me by Bill Arnsparger, Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator of the Miami Dolphins, when I left that organization in 1982. He had asked me to keep him in mind if I ever had to make a change at LSU. from Sacked, by Bob Brodhead, pp. 56-57.