re: Is there a former football head coach at LSU that anyone actually likes?

I like and respect saban the most out of that list


Sorry not sorry

Hal Hunter

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Orgeron - disliked for being an in general idiot and having a poor attitude as head coach. Couldn’t build on the success he attained and basically seemed to coast immediately afterwards and drove the program to lows we hadn’t seen in 20 years.

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Gonna have to disagree with this one. Would take him over Kelly right now. I think we pulled the trigger to early on him.

I still like Coach O. Sux the way it went downhill in a hurry, but I still like and appreciate him.

I liked les and Dinardo.

Lol . Obviously trilling,I hope.

Love Saban. He and LSU used each other, but without Saban, LSU is not what it is today. He unleashed the beast and showed everyone...keep in-state talent and you win at least 1 natty.

O loved LSU but could not keep his johnson in the house. Miles was a perv.

So, Mac was the coach when I was born. I know that fans had mixed feelings about Dietzel (championship, then abandonment - sound familiar?) and that worsened after he was brought back in to fire Mac, years later. I know a lot of you folks are too young to remember even that, but that sharply polarized the fan base. Even folks who conceded it was time for Mac to go thought it was shitty how it was handled.

Everybody loves Stovall. They loved him for coming in. They loved him even while he was losing and they loved him when he was being fired. It is inexplicable.

Arnsparger doesn't generate any hate, I don't think (or not much). My dad thought it was a big conspiracy of him leaving so he could hire Spurrier at UF, but none of that made sense to me then or now. Just too much time passed between him quitting to take the AD job at Florida, the Galen Hall scandal (he left LSU to get away from Dale Brown's press and ran straight into even worse stuff in Gainesville).

Archer is the tough one to understand why fans would continue to hate him. He was too young. He was a great coach (linebackers and even defensive coordinator), just not head coach material. His players loved him. It didn't work out, but I don't get why some folks still hate him. I don't think it is intense, but residual.

Hallman - nothing to say

Dinardo - it is an unpopular opinion, but Dinardo did about 40 to 50 percent of the turnaround job that Saban gets 100% of the credit for. Being unpopular doesn't make it wrong.

Saban - frick that guy

Miles - a bag of contradictions and paradoxes that I will likely not live long enough to understand. A coach who, sometimes in consecutive weeks, alternated between genius and incompetence.

Orgeron - 2019 was lightning in a bottle - his detractors don't want to give him credit, but it is unlikely that season happens without him at the helm. At the same time, his character *ahem* "irregularities" doomed him from long-term success

One has to be impressed by the relative stability of the program going back to the beginning of SEC play - not counting interim coaches, only 15 men (including Bo Rein who unfortunately did not live to coach a single game) have held the job leading off with legends Biff Jones (who led LSU to the SEC football championship in the league's first season, which was also Jones' first season as LSU's head coach in 1932) and Bernie Moore who led LSU from 1935 until after WWII.

Those wins should have never been vacated. That’s just LSU’s typical overreaction.

Stovall was a great player and a Tiger through and through, but quite honestly he couldn't coach his way out of a paper bag. Look at his 1982 team-- off of sheer talent alone, they had the best roster in America, they beat Bama on the road in dominant fashion, then followed it up with a loss on the road to Miss St, who had come in with 6 losses in a row. Then demolished FSU -- The Fog Bowl on the night it rained oranges, and proceeded to lose to Tulane as a 24 point favorite.

Stovall's 1981 & 1983 teams were both among the worst in LSU football history