re: How many of you were won over by O yesterday?

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I could play devil's advocate and name a few off the top of my head

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Well then what are we arguing about? Did those guys get a call? If not then that's the entire point.

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f there were a name I could give you that would change your mind, well we wouldn't be having the conversation in the first place.

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it should be so easy to do though, yet no one does. Even at the time we were looking for a coach no one could come up with this name of this coach who we could get who was going to be so successful here. They kept trotting out the same old names here and on the coaches changes board that now they say they never wanted. Just say Fuente like the other two guys did since he is the one name that came up at the time that we maybe could have gotton who hasn't looked like a big pile of dogshit where ever they are at now (hindsight is 20/20 but we will see when he meets notre dame in a couple weeks). The one guy we did get, who had the worse resume of all of them but had other attributes that the people that had actual input into the hire liked, hasn't looked like a big pile of dogshit.

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I am still amazed people compare coaching at a university that has been the doormat of the sec for years to how LSU has supported their program since Saban

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It's easy when he made the exact same mistakes in year one of his new job that he made at his old job and since he specifically promised not to make those mistakes, it was even easier to make those comparisons and criticize him for it.

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we could have had Fisher for less than A&M paid, in 2015. well at least you know that for a fact. I don't

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Don’t be obtuse

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I am still amazed people compare coaching at a university that has been the doormat of the sec for years

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Ughh, if you don’t it to come up, QUIT bringing it up and making this completely stupid claim. The 2 coaches before and the 2 after O at Ole Miss all had at least 1!9 or 10 win season. The only options are not NC or 10-25 over 3 years

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I am still amazed people compare coaching at a university that has been the doormat of the sec for years to how LSU has supported their program since Saban

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No one's saying he had to win a championship. But don't be worse in year 3 than you were in year 1.

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he made the exact same mistakes in year one of his new job that he made at his old job

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A HC isn't suppose to tell his OC to clean up the penalties? Is that meddling?

Everything is relative.

He wasn’t just a bad coach at Ole Miss but a historically bad coach for Ole Miss

Compared to what he’s done at LSU of course it’s better, but is there a coach alive who wouldn’t look better at LSU in 2017 than Ole Miss in 2007?


You’re gonna win way more races in a new Ferrari than a beat up olds mobile.

But it still doesn’t mean you’re a better driver

ALL THAT BEING SAID he is in a much better situation which means he can relax a bit and trust the people around him more which makes a better coach.

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Ed O was not the 3rd best option. A name doesn’t matter particularly since you would judge them with 20/20 hindsight

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but it is who we hired and after you make the hire the coach is judged on hindsight. At the end of this season we will have hindsight 20/20 on how this season played out and we can better determine whether it was a good hire or not. ONce LSU hires a coach the only school I care about how successful he was at is at LSU based on 20/20 hindsight.

He shouldn't have hired an OC that didn't run the kind of offense that he wanted to run AGAIN. He did the exact same thing at Ole Miss and admitted to it in an interview.

The Canada and Joseph hires were a disaster. The lack of a special teams coach was a disaster. People expected fans to just be on board with the changes and new hires when he hadn't shown up this past off season that he was capable of making good hires. That's why people were skeptical.