re: LSU Coaching Search, 1983. Surely I misread.

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Geez. Some of you nerds have to have EVERYTHING explained to you.

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So you believe being a successful college coach(like I said) wasn’t relevant to a college coaching job or LSU?
Vermiel was a successful college coach ie would have been a great college or pro hire.
Gruden was being shipped at this great coach and it would translate at the college level. Not even the same thing.
He had ZERO desire to recruit. None. He didn’t want to deal with the drama of NCAA and its volumes of shitty rules.

Gruden, as I’ve said before on here, would only go to a job that had the pieces to be great ie great QB or defense.
He isn’t a fool.

For Vermiel at that point in his life, it was all gravy. He had matured, made some serious money and really wasn’t constantly being rumored for college jobs because of how long had passed since he last coached. So no it wasn’t the same. I actually was around (‘72 LSU grad/Alum) and watched all those games and teams then. As a Dallas hater, I loved when Philly or Washington or the Giants beat them.

That job in Philly nearly killed him.