re: Who should have been hired instead of BK?

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Didn’t we hear tha some board members were pushing for Mel Tucker before we hired BK?

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I do remember the name Mel Tucker. But I was strong on Lincoln Riley. I still am and think that if Lincoln Riley would’ve been hired that he would’ve been way better here than he is at USC. I wish we could’ve made that hire. LSU and Woodward Only hired Brian Kelly, because that was sort of their last option that was out of the considered pool. I didn’t like the Kelly hire at the start, but I was able to be convinced after those two first seasons only because of the win.

Lincoln Riley

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Maybe pre-Bills Joe Brady?

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No way he handles the coming of NIL properly.

At the time, I wanted Kiffin. Many were saying it was too big of a risk.

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Kelly had taken ND to the BCS Championship Game. He had taken them to the CFP in 2018, again in 2020, and had ND 11-1 with an outside chance of returning to the CFP for the second straight year (3rd time overall) at the time the accepted the LSU. Given guys like Smart, Saban and Dabo at the time weren't going to leave for LSU, there were only two other guys, Riley and Kelly, in the prior 5 years who had such success. By all accounts Riley chose USC. That left Kelly. If in December of 2021 LSU had hired Dan Lanning and LSU fans found out Kelly wanted the job, but was passed over, this board would have gone apoplectic. LSU hired Georgia's DC who had never been a HC when they could have had a guy who was 44-6 over the last 4 years with two CFP appearances!!!!!

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Not just that, he was the Co-DC and less experienced than Schumann.

Lane. He openly made his agent Jimmy Sexton contact LSU to inform him he wanted the job. Time to fix that mistake and bring him to BR after the season.