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re: Where did Dinardo go wrong?

Posted on 11/6/20 at 11:21 am to
Posted by madddoggydawg
Metairie
Member since Jun 2013
6628 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 11:21 am to
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Eerily similar to what is happening this year imo.
How is it similar in any way?
Posted by OLDBEACHCOMBER
Member since Jan 2004
7343 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 12:43 pm to
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I know recruiting wasn’t as accurate in 99 as it is today, but he did get the #1 class; has to be at least a top 10 class nowadays. So even during a bad two year period he was getting great players. I never watched him bc I was born in 98 but he must’ve been a good recruit


Yet he couldn't field a receiver after a purse snatcher got suspended.
Posted by LSUStar
Medellin
Member since Sep 2009
11405 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 12:51 pm to
Both hired bad assistants. DiNardo because he had no money and 0 because he doesn't know what he is doing.

Posted by madddoggydawg
Metairie
Member since Jun 2013
6628 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 3:11 pm to
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Both hired bad assistants. DiNardo because he had no money and 0 because he doesn't know what he is doing.
All coaches have to hire assistants. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t. Last year they worked out. So what is it you’re saying!?
Posted by Tiger in Texas
Houston, Texas
Member since Sep 2004
21498 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 3:49 pm to
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he made some terrible coaching hires


That is certainly true- it's as if he hired replacements that were inferior to the ones that left! Hiring your buddies never ends well...
Some will say LSU did not have that big of a budget in those days, but still, not like Dinardo was really pushing for any big time coaches.
Posted by mhc4tigers
Member since Aug 2016
4478 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 6:14 pm to
No QB. Sub standard line. Lou Tepper.
Posted by LSUStar
Medellin
Member since Sep 2009
11405 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 6:31 pm to
Look at the assistants 0 has hired and get back to me.

Posted by ManyTiger
Member since Jun 2020
784 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 6:36 pm to
The Tepper defense his first full year was God awful, but improved the second year (Dinardo’s last year). The offensive coordinator hire as mentioned in another reply was worse than the Tepper hire. The problem was 2 bad seasons in a row because of poor hires at the coordinator positions. And don’t forget the coach started his own restaurant in BR. Perhaps losing focus on his real job.

Does this sound familiar?
Posted by GeauxtigersMs36
The coast
Member since Jan 2018
11396 posts
Posted on 11/6/20 at 11:26 pm to
Crazy at one point, booty, Dave’s and Nall were on nfl rosters.
Posted by msully
Nashville
Member since Aug 2011
1074 posts
Posted on 11/7/20 at 3:37 am to
Again. WRONG ANSWER
Posted by griswold
Member since Oct 2009
4183 posts
Posted on 11/7/20 at 6:58 am to
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It’s a bit more complicated that this.

You summed it up very well. But on a side note... Dinardo also jinxed himself by putting his name on that restaurant on highland road (I moved away from BR 15 years ago but I think it’s currently Ruffino’s). Back then that location/building had the reputation of being a failure and a graveyard for every restaurant owner that dared to operate out of it. So when “Dinardo’s” opened for business it was the beginning of the end for Gerry. ;-)
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