re: Cajun Country Beams with Pride over Orgeron being hired as LSU head coach

Smh. So much for being a professionally run organization.

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So Coach O wasn't chosen because he was qualified. Instead, according to you, Coach O was chosen because he was born a coonass. If Coach O hadn't been born a coonass, he never would have gotten the job. Just clarifying what you are saying here.

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a man named Smith from a tennessee with O's resume wouldn't even get a sniff at this job.
LSU would thank him for his work as interim, then go find a qualified head coach.

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Not saying it was 100% the reason but if you don't think it played any part in the decision, you're kidding yourself. We missed out on the 2 we wanted and O's support from the fan base is likely what put him above the other candidates.

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In my case we missed out on the one I wanted, which was Jimbo. I would have taken Herman, although I didn't think he was close to being proven. It would have been a mega chance. Nonetheless, neither one of those two wanted to come to LSU. So we were forced to compromise with Orgeron. At that point Orgeron became the obvious choice. If not Orgeron, then who else?

Indeed, you crybabies act as if hiring Orgeron was analogous to committing suicide, when the truth is we didn't have any other choice. There were other choices, but they weren't anymore qualified than Orgeron and definitely would have cost far more money. It's far better to spend the money on hiring outstanding coordinators to coach than it is to bring in an entire new coach and coaching staff to try to pick up the pieces on recruiting.

This shits embarrassing.

Cajun butt hurt, that's you.

Butt hurt?? For what?? Don't tell me u have a laettner poster in your room to. Why would I be butt hurt? Coach O is from my hometown. I've been pro Coach O from the start. I'm talking shite to the ones that are butt hurt. U obviously upside down in this thread. For the record, if Coach O would have been a bad hire, I would've been a realist and recognized that there were more qualified candidates than him. The fact is, factoring in time and the situation we were in Coach O was our best option. It ain't us supposingly dumbasses from his hometown as y'all geniuses call us fault that their is a bunch of butt hurt on this board. Ain't no butt hurt coming from me. If u think their is than please elaborate.

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At that point Orgeron became the obvious choice. If not Orgeron, then who else?

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Why does this keep getting posted as if it's some kind of impossible question to answer?

The real question is, if he was not currently ensconced in the HC office as interim, where exactly on the list of potential head coaches would Ed Orgeron have been? if you can honestly say the man would have been 3, then this is a sensible position to hold on your part. Otherwise, it's just a plain ole dishonest thing to even ask.

We all know though, he most certainly would NOT have been 3. Hell, were he not already on staff, he would almost certainly not have been on the damn list. After all, we weren't going to go out and hire someone else's DL coach as the follow-up to Miles and Saban, were we?

So, to answer your question, if you miss on Jimbo and Herman you move on to #3, then #4, then #5, then #6 and so on and so forth until you get to Miles' former DL coach on the list as each and every other man on your list you supposedly had been compiling since week 4 told you know. My guess...you don't get passed someone at the 5th or 6th spot before what you're now willing to pay matches a coach with a successful rack record looking to move up or change venues. Oregeon, to be blunt, is an "if all else fails" type of hire, and given the money we had to spend AND the time we had to vet candidates, there's no reason we went that route.

Please quit pretending that Oregron was the only reasonable candidate once we whiffed on the top two choices. Had LSU not stepped up and hired him, there is no reasonable person who would tell you that he'd currently be entertaining offers from any other Power 5 conference team.

are you really arguing that O has the 3rd best resume of coaches out there?

we didn't do a search according to all reports.
there was no serious talks with Jimbo.
and prior to the florida loss, there was no plans to talk to Herman either.

turned out season around?
remove the "names" of the teams O beat and look at it objectively. He beat 4 teams with rush defenses ranked below 85 in the country. Miles would have done the exact same thing.

the players wanted him?
they wanted Miles too.

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Alleva conducted a coaching search.

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i don't know who would be the coach. but i'm really confident it wouldn't be O.

he got exactly zero of the criteria that Alleva said he was looking for when Miles was fired.
the ground swell of support for O was all about "from here" "one of us" etc. etc.

remove that heritage from the O package and his support disappears.
nobody has offered any solid football reasons for him to be top 3 candidate.