re: Congrats to Bertman and O'keefe for the above avg program

Lsu sure did a bargain didn't they?

Well said Stevo, some on this board think that Bear would rather have coached at LSU but his wife just does not like purple.

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Great post.

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Not this. He lied.

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Stanley didn't want a Saban type. He bottom barreled LSU.

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yeah, all part if his master plan to destroy LSU.

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yeah, all part if his master plan to destroy LSU.

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No it was a plan to pad his ego. He hated Saban.

And then he let Saban walk all over him when Nick was flying around on WH's Dolphins jet. Let Nick take until Christmas to make a decision. Then let Nick coach in the Cap One bowl.

Stanley was a great baseball coach.

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And then he let Saban walk all over him when Nick was flying around on WH's Dolphins jet. Let Nick take until Christmas to make a decision. Then let Nick coach in the Cap One bowl.

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FWIW, word is that Nick was actually still contemplating the decision and that Stanley told him to not let the door hit him on the way out. No link, just word.

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He said that we are not going to be paying Nick Saban-type money at the start of the contract, but that the new coach will have a chance to earn a raise.

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He never said this as a prerequisite to the search. Again, there were no interested coaches worthy of Nick Saban type money, so we weren't going to pay that kind of money for the sake of paying it. If there was such interest, Skip would have paid. The search was a month later than most college coaching searches, and the candidate pool was limited. It's ok for you to hate Miles, but you don't have to make shite up to do it. There's enough real stuff out there.

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He never said this as a prerequisite to the search. Again, there were no interested coaches worthy of Nick Saban type money, so we weren't going to pay that kind of money for the sake of paying it. If there was such interest, Skip would have paid. The search was a month later than most college coaching searches, and the candidate pool was limited. It's ok for you to hate Miles, but you don't have to make shite up to do it. There's enough real stuff out there

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I agree that it was poor timing and a tough time to hire. The problem I have with the hire is this. If you would've ranked every head coach of all 119 NCAA teams based on their records and what they have acheived, Les Miles would not have been in the top 25. I'm guessing that he probably wasn't in the top 50. He was a very average coach at OSU that had won nothing but a few "mean nothing" games against Oklahoma. So, let's say that Les was the 26th most qualified coach (I think that is being generous) to take over as head coach, what does he become when you start considering coordinators that could get a shot?

The biggest problem I have with the Les hire is that it ever got down to him. I seriously doubt that we were turned down by every coach that was more qualified than Les. And, I doubt we would have been had Stanley approached them (considering the state our program was in at the time).

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Someone needs to start a thread and ask how happy they were the day Nick Saban was announced as our next coach. 95% will say they had never heard of him.

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Disagree. Most had heard of him simply because he coached MSU in the INDY Bowl and was touted as a solid hire at MSU. Also, when he was first hired here, most were very happy as Nick was known to be a defensive guru and a coach on the rise. Again, the hire was widely touted as a great one for LSU.