re: Raise your hand if you’re thankful Jimbo isn’t our head coach

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There was a time when I wanted him, as many of us did.

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I'm not sure this is true.

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He’ll leave aTm in a worse dumpster fire than he left FSU in.

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I'll accept that

I didn't like Jimbo when he was the OC here...

thankfully we avoided that dumpster fire...

Imagine LSU going on the street and hiring some dumb redneck off the corner for millions. That's essentially what TAMU did and how Jimbo sounds when he talks.

I was bashed for saying that he was a phony. I am still here and my opinion hasn't changed. But, they are buying talent like Georgia. With the right assistants and if he let's them coach, A&M could be hard to contend with. They culled hard last year. And they kept most of the elite. They are buying again.

Man I was so wrong about him. I was very disappointed we didn’t get him, at the time.

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This place was almost completely in wanting either Jimbo or Herman as head coach, and both would’ve been disasters for us if they had panned out.

Instead we got Ed Orgeron, who for all his faults managed to capture lightning in a bottle in 2019, and now we replaced him with an established head coach who has already had a good year under his belt

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I have to agree with this post.

I never thought Orgeron was "the man", but I also thought LSU was going to need a transition period after Miles.

Miles, bitch about him all you want, was here a decade, and had a system in place (that had worked)... and it was time for that system to be replaced. And I don't just mean a scheme, I'm talking about the whole system, from workout schedules to HS coach contacts to who answers the phones.
That wasn't going to be easy to do, nor would it be done without resistance, until things broke down.

O came in here, tried to retain some of Miles' system (and tried to put some of his own stuff in), and things ultimately crashed. It worked a couple years, but it crashed hard.

This let Kelly (or whoever else we would hire) come in and put his system in, clean and without resistance.

And we were fortunate it was Kelly, because although he wasn't the most exciting or sexy pick, he has the most established and time-tested system outside of Saban, and maybe Dabo and Urban. No "well I've seen it work over at Bama with Saban, I'll try it", or "it was working here with Miles, so I will stick with it"; it's all "this is what works for me the past few decades, I will do it here now".
Smart is modelling after Saban, with some Richt leftover. Riley is taking Stoops' and mixing his own.
Kelly is rebooting LSU with his own OS.

I met Jimbo back in the 90’s when he was working with Tater Tot at Auburn, a few of my friends were on that staff.

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He isn’t. Miles has a title here and while people want to shite on him he was a 10 win a year coach which isn’t easy.
There is a lot to not like about Miles but people act like he was shite and he wasn’t shite, he just wasn’t as great of a coach as LSU deserves.

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my brother and i were on a bike trip in Nebraska where there were numerous 18 wheeler cattle trucks.
my brother says to me, "that's the smell of money" which i found to be quite humorous.

a couple days later we are in a campground just outside of Glacier National Park and i had just exited the restroom where the odor of human feces's was quite prevalent.

as he was about to enter i said to him, "careful, it smells like money".

Les Miles early in his career as head coach for LSU seemed destined for greatness.

as a head coach he had some very peculiar faults during games. clock management in particular.







it's all about perspective.