re: LSU's best coaching hires of all time?

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This has to be a troll, right?

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I'd rather be accused of being a troll by a mega idiot like you than actually be one like you.

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Years 1 & 2 he took over a good program and maintained the status quo from the Miles era (9 win seasons).

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You are obviously so damn lost in space that you don't know if you are coming or going. In 2017, LSU loss to both Moo State and Troy State after the defensive line became decimated by injuries. As the previous head coach left Ed O with a very depleted football team on the defensive line and especially on the offensive line.

In any event, once those injured players on the defensive line returned back to playing, LSU subsequently lost only lost two games for the remainder of the season beating a very good Florida team and a very good Auburn team, before losing a heart breaker to Alabama in Tuscaloosa in a game LSU won every which way but on the scoreboard. Then in the final lost of the season in the Bowl Game, Notre Dame got exceedingly lucky and made a last minute miracle play to win that game. Nonetheless, LSU had thoroughly outplayed that Notre Dame team every which way but on the score board.

Then in 2004, Ed O did not finish 9 & 4 as you stupidly allege, but instead 10 & 3, while defeating four top-10 teams in the process. Not to mention that one of those losses was a rip-off by Texas A&M.

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He had a tremendous 2019...followed by the worst LSU season in 20 years.

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Meanwhile, in Ed O's third season at the helm at LSU, he went 15 & 0 to win a National Championship with the greatest college football team EVER in history, while also at the same time, reeling in a cool $55 million dollar bonanza for the university.

He also had 14 players from that team drafted into the NFL with five of them going in the first round, which tied the old all time record. It would have been 15 players and a brand new all time record had Thad Moss not fractured his foot right before the NFL Combine.

Then including Thad Moss, a total of six LSU players also received undrafted free agent NFL contracts for a grand total of 20 football players from only one single team and in only one single year headed off to the NFL. Which was not only more players than some conferences put in the NFL but also shattered the all time record by a mile.

Meanwhile, guess who recruited and developed all of those players? That's right Ed O.

Furthermore, after losing 20 players to the NFL from the previous 2019 team, four returning starters from that 2019 team opted out before the start of the season. Which meant that virtually the entire 2020 team consisted of all brand new first time starting freshman and sophomore players that Ed O and his coaching staff could not develop and prepare fully before the start of the season because of the Covid Pandemic and in which you blame Ed O for, instead of the Communist Chinese.

Moreover, in just the third game of the season, Myles Brennan got injured and was out for the remainder of the season. Which meant that LSU from that point on had to start two true freshmen QBs, who barely had any reps to transition from high school football to the SEC, which is a major jump for everyone, because of the Covid Pandemic, for the remainder of the season. Yet you blame Ed O for it and even though that happenstance was beyond anyone's control.

Then luckily a very out of shape Neal Ferrell who had earlier opted out, returned during the season to play for the remainder of the season. While both Terrace Marshall and Arik Gilbert, on the other hand, both opted out in the middle of the season. Again, not Ed O's fault.

However, the biggest reason for the debacle in 2020 was the hiring of Bo Pelini, not by Ed O, but by Scott Woodward instead to be the DC and despite the fact that Bo Pelini hadn't coached a defense since 2007 and was completely ill prepared to stop modern spread offenses. Yet, you blame Ed O for that blunder as well.

Nonetheless, because of Ed O, the team stuck together through thick and thin and regrouped after TJ Finley was finally removed as the starter at QB and replaced by Max Johnson to rally for victories against the number six Florida Gators in the Swamp and at the same time, destroying their hopes and dreams of finally playing in the college football playoffs, while also spoiling Dan Mullen's first SEC East Division title and concluding the season with a hard fought victory over a very good offensive Ole Miss team to finish out the season 5 & 5. Which was not bad considering the circumstances involved in that fluke of a season.

Nonetheless, given all the adversity Ed O faced in that 2020 season, I don't think Nick Saban or anyone else could have done nearly as well as he did.

Meanwhile things are looking up for LSU in 2021 and LSU is fixing to make a major rebound from the previous season.

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Saban took over a LSU program that had just finished 3-8 (1-7 in SEC play) and only had three winning seasons, total, in the prior decade. In four years he won the SEC championship twice and LSU's first national championship in 45 years.

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It took Nick Saban four years. Ed O did it in only three years and that 2017 team Ed O took over was also pretty depleted as well.

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I'd say given the shape and status of the program when they each took over Saban's first 4 years were better than O's. Sorry if that offends anyone

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You're wrong! Just like you are flat out wrong about everything else.