re: Sam Spiegs Rivals prediction piece

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Surtain was a given too

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I get what you are saying, but the program was in a FAR different spot when he "spurned" LSU for Alabama.

Alabama had just won the national championship, while LSU was coming off a good, but not great 2017 season. Everyone was still very skeptical of Orgeron and LSU had just lost to Alabama for the sixth straight time. Rival coaches could say it was just a matter of time before O was fired. All LSU really had to sell was a good history of DB's along with hope and change.

Three years later NONE of that applies. O's "hot seat" is gone. LSU is coming off a season where they steamrolled the competition at a level perhaps not seen before in modern history. The losing streak to Bama is over. O doesn't have to sell "hope" anymore. He can simply open up the 2019 trophy case