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re: What if, after Rein's tragic death, LSU hired Eddie Robinson?
Posted on 10/13/20 at 7:22 am to WMTigerFAN
Posted on 10/13/20 at 7:22 am to WMTigerFAN
I was fortunate to meet Coach Robinson at an event when I was a kid. He had the ability to make people (me, in this case) feel as if you were the most important person in the room.
Needless to say, I idolized him.
Needless to say, I idolized him.
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Posted on 10/13/20 at 7:34 am to Draconian Sanctions
Setting aside the fact that a 1980s Louisiana would have never allowed it, ER would have been very successful. Curious more is to think about how the dominos would have fallen for other coaches. LSU wouldn’t have been a dumpster fire so we may not have gone after Saban. Where would he have landed, would he have been as successful at another school as he was at LSU and eventually end up at Bama? Would we have O and then The Joes? Would we have arguably the greAtest season ever in college football?
Butterfly effect and all...
Butterfly effect and all...
Posted on 10/13/20 at 7:37 am to Draconian Sanctions
Dude would have gotten loads of talent and been like Bobby Bowden.
Posted on 10/13/20 at 7:49 am to JEAUXBLEAUX
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Would have been wonderful but as racist as society is now, it was worse then! Would have taken guts, brains and integrity. Guess all were in short supply.
Lol the old Jersey race baiter shows up
Posted on 10/13/20 at 8:23 am to Strannix
The old LSU student from the seventies who was here David Duke days. We’re you here then? I saw the first black football and basketball players here. Been here seen thst.
Sure you were one of those yahoos with a purple and gold rebel flag.
Sure you were one of those yahoos with a purple and gold rebel flag.
Posted on 10/13/20 at 9:18 am to ShermanTxTiger
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LSU and La was not ready for that. No way it happens.
I agree 100%. Coach Rob was a great coach and leader of young men; however, Louisiana politics, LSU Board of Regents, and the culture would not have allowed it to happen. Sylvester Croom was the first black HC in the SEC and he wasn't hired until 2004 ... 24 yrs after the OP's question (1980). FYI - the SEC has only had 4 black HC's, only 1 currently
Posted on 10/13/20 at 9:32 am to Draconian Sanctions
It would have set us on a different trajectory and it is unlikely we would have won three national championships thereafter.
Posted on 10/13/20 at 11:33 am to kevlanmei
I had a similar opportunity to meet him once late in his life. It was at a reception event, so hardly an intimate setting. But, as you say, for the few minutes he took to talk to me, he made me feel like the most important person in the room. He exuded a warmth that is hard to describe. But I felt like I was in the presence of a good, decent and caring man.
Posted on 10/13/20 at 1:45 pm to Draconian Sanctions
It’s impossible to answer that. Yes he was a great coach, one of the greatest. But it’s hard to take what worked in the swac to the SEC and be successful.
I get that’s it’s a hypothetical question but considering that Croom was the first black sec head coach in the 2000’s, there’s no way that hire would’ve happened at that point in time. Sucks but that was the reality of those times.
I get that’s it’s a hypothetical question but considering that Croom was the first black sec head coach in the 2000’s, there’s no way that hire would’ve happened at that point in time. Sucks but that was the reality of those times.
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