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LSU Coaching Search 1950s Style
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:10 am
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:10 am
Here is an excerpt from Peter Finney's The Fighting Tigers about the 1955 search for a new head coach after Gaynell Tinsley was fired. Most of you will recognize some of the names, but you may not have heard of Stan Galloway. He was the Billy Napier of his day having made Southeastern a small college powerhouse in the 1950s.
No lesson here for today's search, just an interesting trip down memory lane.
No lesson here for today's search, just an interesting trip down memory lane.
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Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:02 am to blueridgeTiger
Interesting read.
Bear Bryant was interested and we didn't grab him - what could have been. A few short years later he goes to Alabama.
What happened in the NFL in 1954 that no coaches or players from that year in the NFL would be considered?
Bear Bryant was interested and we didn't grab him - what could have been. A few short years later he goes to Alabama.
What happened in the NFL in 1954 that no coaches or players from that year in the NFL would be considered?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:05 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
Back in the days (as recently as the 70's), you never hired a coach from another SEC school. Also, before that, you never hired a head coach that was already under contract at a school. Professional courtesy.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:48 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
Bear would have still gone to Bama
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:53 am to blueridgeTiger
Can’t say Dietzel was a bad choice… but damn if he didn’t leave could’ve done a LOT of great things. Super interesting that we could have gotten Bear.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:00 pm to blueridgeTiger
Why not an LSU assistant?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:04 pm to lsucoonass
Because when you gata clean shop you gata clean shop. Not hire from within.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:14 pm to WacoTiger
quote:
Back in the days (as recently as the 70's), you never hired a coach from another SEC school. Also, before that, you never hired a head coach that was already under contract at a school. Professional courtesy.
Bear was at A&M then, not Alabama.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:34 pm to lsucoonass
quote:
Why not an LSU assistant?
"It doesn't always work out."
~Mike Archer
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:43 pm to blueridgeTiger
Using those criteria today would leave a really short list.
Chris Petersen and ?
Chris Petersen and ?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:47 pm to blueridgeTiger
This should instruct us, but it's difficult to see how.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:49 pm to lsucoonass
Unless the program is where it should be and hc is leaving for death/health reasons, probably want a change of culcha?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 12:51 pm to lsucoonass
Wasn't Cholly Mac a Dietzel assistant? It must have been a specific rule for that staff.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 1:03 pm to Manswers
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Wasn't Cholly Mac a Dietzel assistant?
Yes. He was the number one assistant to Dietzel, in today's world he would probably have the title, "Defensive Coordinator". About the time Dietzel left after the 61 season, Cholly Mac was offered head coaching jobs at Kentucky and LSU.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 5:13 pm to blueridgeTiger
Sadly Dietzel made a big mistake leaving LSU for Army.
Dietzel said that leaving LSU was one of the hardest decisions he ever made.
"I think the way you measure my move is 'Was LSU better when I left than when I came in?'" Dietzel said. "It was tough leaving. I never considered going anywhere else because I thought LSU was the best coaching job in America. I loved the LSU fans. They are crazy and passionate about it. I had never considered West Point because they had never had a non-graduate coach. When they came around and asked me if I would be interested, it opened a door I thought would never be opened." However, he was not able to match the success he had at LSU, compiling a record of 21–18–1 at Army.
Dietzel said that leaving LSU was one of the hardest decisions he ever made.
"I think the way you measure my move is 'Was LSU better when I left than when I came in?'" Dietzel said. "It was tough leaving. I never considered going anywhere else because I thought LSU was the best coaching job in America. I loved the LSU fans. They are crazy and passionate about it. I had never considered West Point because they had never had a non-graduate coach. When they came around and asked me if I would be interested, it opened a door I thought would never be opened." However, he was not able to match the success he had at LSU, compiling a record of 21–18–1 at Army.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 4:13 pm to Chinese Bandit Boy
I was a junior at LSU when Dietzel packed up and left - he later said his final team at LSU, the 1961 Tigers, was the best team he ever coached.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 4:21 pm to blueridgeTiger
Having grown up so close to SLU and have heard old timers talk about Galloway. I think LSU would have done real good under him.
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Posted on 10/21/21 at 4:44 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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have heard old timers talk about Galloway. I think LSU would have done real good under him.
We lived in the married student housing at SLC in the early 50s during Galloway's tenure while my dad attended college on the GI Bill. Galloway coached at Bogalusa and led the team to a state championship and was hired by SLC in 1951.
I had the pleasure of watching the team practice across from our apartment. Galloway was a master, and when head coaching jobs opened up his name was usually in the hopper, but he never moved on from Southeastern coaching there for 14 years.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 8:00 pm to blueridgeTiger
Orgeron would’ve been excluded based on the first point.
Posted on 10/21/21 at 8:18 pm to lsucoonass
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Why not an LSU assistant?
Ask Mike Archer
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