re: Why is it hard to attract elite coaches at LSU?

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Great coaches have even higher expectations. They idea that would scare off a coach is ridiculous and delusional. They want to be at a place with expectations.

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This feels dated.

Looks at Urban Meyer bailing on the SEC to coach in an easier conference. Or Peterson never wanting to leave the north (or how he retired early). Or going back a little how Tubs left a hard to win at Texas Tech for a Cincinnati that has a better setup to win.

We now see top open positions have to get a couple of no’s now on the way to a yes, and sometimes even coaches at G5 programs say no. Now you can be a millionaire at a lower tier job, and top jobs might not even give you four years to turn a program around. So why leave?

The old ideal of coaches dying to fling themselves at the meat grinder for the chance to prove themselves doesn’t line up to the modern reality where coaches hold back for the right Power 5 job to open up. That is why a situation like Pittman at Arkansas is unusual with his heavy incentive based contract that fans always dream of forcing new coaches to take. The reality is he took that contract because he had no other shot to be a head coach (not just a Power 5 head coach but one period), and they offered it to him because more qualified candidates said no.

Any hot coach LSU wants will either dictate the terms or not come. If LSU doesn’t get a hot coach for some reason that would be why, but the current AD didn’t get hired just to be put in handcuffs.