Reality of the LSU Football Program

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Nick Saban brought the program to a place it hadn't been since the 1960's. Miles kept it going for a short period of time but could not sustain it. Absent hiring another Saban LSU football will be what it is and always has been. A good but not great program who wins and SEC championship every ten years or so. 125 years of history gives you a great barometer of who you are and who you will be

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We get a good HC with good asst coaches and shut down the talent drain from La and we will return to dominance. Saban is cherry picking our state as are other schools. This reminds me of the Hallman days. Saban put a recruiting wall around La while he was HC. Miles did too for a while. After we began hemorrhaging talent to Bama and other schools it went South.

We don't need an elite coach to beat Saban. Gus has proven that. We need all our 5 and 4 star recruits. That is our problem.

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Reality of the LSU Football Program

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first your title, then your post led me to this point:

We're not a "program" in the sense of how it should work. We do not have all aspects working towards the same goal pulling in the same manner. The pieces aren't fitting together.

We have a team, recruiting coaches, coaching coaches, an athletic admin, a school admin, a booster foundation, a student-athelete foundation, and a compliance department.

Throw them together and you don't have a "program", you have a jumbled mess with some who have different goals/expectations, some who want to help another entity, some working against the others, some who see this as a business and not athletics, etc.

The problem with playing in the SEC is that even though LSU is a top 10-15 all-time program, there are 5 other SEC programs that are also at that level over the long term.

Tennessee and Florida are a little below their long term program level right now and Georgia is a little above theirs. LSU auburn and Alabama are right about at their long term level currently.

It is difficult in the SEC for any program other than Alabama to win a championship without a great coach like Saban or a great player like Tebiow or Cam that raises the program above their historical norm for a few years