He isn't my first choice, but if Jimbo Fisher is the hire...

...the thing to remember is that Jimbo Fisher would be, BY FAR, the most accomplished coach LSU will have ever hired in the modern history of its program.

He's won a national championship, he's won conference championships. He's won 77 percent of his games as a head coach. His 2013 Florida State team was one of the best ever to take the field, much like our 2019 team.

Currently you'd have to say that either Nick Saban or Bo Rein had the best resumes of all the coaches hired by LSU in the past half-century or so. And Saban had been essentially a 6-5 coach at Michigan State until that breakout season in 1999. His resume was the best largely on the strength of his having been Belichik's defensive coordinator at Cleveland and a 9-2 season as head coach at Toledo, which meant going 9-2 in that one year at Michigan State was probably more indicative of who he was as a coach than the 6-5's before that.

We've never hired a coach who had won a championship of any kind as a head coach prior to coming to LSU. Fisher has multiple conference titles under his belt.

Again, I'm not all that excited about this hire. I can get excited about Lincoln Riley, and there are a bunch of coaches out there nobody's talking about who would be a good bit like the Jay Johnson hire in baseball.

But if you consider the truly meager resumes of the coaches we've hired over the years and the success they've nonetheless had here, you really can't melt if it's Fisher. He's a top-tier hire; the only question on him is whether he's burned out and that isn't really in evidence at the moment.