re: History lesson on 90s football?

My bad on Gerry lol but no arnsparger didn't recommend him.

Chad loupe wasn't class of 88 and he put up huge stats in high school but played at a small school and wasn't bad for us but Hallman shuffled QBS the first couple years like nobody's ever seen. Btw who were the big signees from 88 cause I don't remember anybody being that good maybe mawae and Todd kinchen but that's about it.

College football success is hinged on one very important attribute, recruiting. Archer sucked at it, and O is very good at it.

Wonder why Saban has multiple nattys, look at his #1 classes year after year...

was happy with any bowl game and 8 wins was a great season. I was happy when LSU got votes in the top 25.
got my season tickets dinardos first year in 95 still have them

Archer makes Les look like Bill Belichick. A memorable moment was going for the tie against Emmit Smith and them and then losing.

Curley was just a dumpster fire.

Dinardo made a bigger improvement in win percentage than Saban but finally lost control of the team.

After Bo Rein died suddenly after being hired, LSU was in a bit of a tailspin in the 80s, digging the hole deeper with bad coaching hires.

As the joke goes, Stovall could recruit but couldn't coach. Arnsparger could coach but couldn't recruit. So they hired Archer, who could do neither. After Archer, we hired Curley and well... we know how that went. He took everything wrong with the Archer era and made it a hundred times worse. As bad as the early 90s were, it was really set up the successive bad hires in the 80s and increased meddling from boosters who thought they knew everything. HINT: they don't. LSU's hires stunk of nepotism, being cheap, or in Archer's case... both.

Honestly, Dinardo did a great job pulling us out of the disaster of six straight losing seasons. He got recruiting back up and scored perhaps the most important recruit in LSU history, Kevin Faulk, showing LSU could keep top players instate. His tenure crashed and burned over his insane loyalty to a terrible coordinator, and we brought in Saban to a then near-record contract. He walked into a fully stocked roster, a new AD that was not corrupt (sorry Joe Dean), and a booster network severely chastised over the past two decades.

Mike Archer was the head coach of some really talented football teams in 1987 and 1988, and was successful with those teams. He lead LSU to a Gator Bowl victory in 1987 when the Gator Bowl was a big deal.

In 1988, even though LSU had the same conference record and beat Auburn earlier that year (Earthquake Game), Auburn went to the Sugar Bowl and LSU went to the Hall of Fame Bowl (Outback Bowl now) and lost a tough game to Syracuse.

In 1989 and 1990, LSU had leftover talent from the Arnsparger (sp?) days, but Mike Archer failed to bring in any big name talent to shore up the program, and LSU football fell apart. In 1989 he went 4-7, and in 1990 he went 5-6 but beat a really good A&M team, 17-8. Todd Kinchen single-handedly won that game. Well, that's the way I remember it, anyway.

The real turning points in Archer's demise were losses at Ohio State and at home against Miami ... both during the 1988 season. The team played uninspired football against Syracuse in the Outback Bowl. The decline and fall had begun.

How bad was Hallman? The 1992 season was horrible, ending at 2-9. There were home losses to Colorado State and Kentucky, and a national TV loss at Arkansas.

The dark ages of LSU football were 1989-1994. I give Dinardo some credit for bringing back respectability to the program. He couldn't sustain it, however.

No comparison to those days. I been around since the early 60's and have never seen a fan base as unified and excited at games in many years.
O might not have been my first choice but he will do especially if he surrounds himself with great coaching talent. So far he has and is doing a good job.

i loved the I-Bone offense we ran on the goal line with booger, cleveland and faulk.