re: Why did Bill Arnsparger leave so quickly?

There is a very detailed account of the Brodhead/Arnsparger times online “and the valley shook” I was young during those years but pretty connected and it was insightful to read. It reminded me Arnsparger was burnt out coaching but wanted to be AD, LSU offered him AD but only if he would remain head football coach. He declined. Ironically Brodhead had been fired as AD, and he and Arnsparger both were up for the UF AD job.

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No he wasn't! Jerry stovall recruited Dalton Hilliard, Gary James and Leonard Marshall!

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Leonard finished in '82 so I'm thinking he was a Cholly Mac recruit. Dalton and Garry were Stovall recruits,

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I’d argue he was probably a better pure football mind than Saban

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You would win by a mile. Saban is not a noteworthy strategist. His success was always due to these three things:
1. Relentless talent evaluator and recruiter. Saban’s teams were almost always the most talented in the nation.
2. Relentless scouting of opponents. Saban’s staff found the tendencies of their opponents then coached to take them away.
3. Disciplined adherence to processes that included talent evaluation, recruiting, booster fundraising to pay players, scouting, coaching technique, etc.

The national championship game against Oklahoma was a great example of taking opponents’ tendencies away. Their Heisman QB could not find an open receiver all night. LSU DBs were squatting on their routes. Other great examples were every LSU game. RBs like Fournette were met in the backfield by LBers blitzing the intended gap.

When Dabo Sweeney broke tendencies against Bama in the championship games he was able to beat Saban with grossly inferior across-the-board talent (and admittedly, a great QB).

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Broadhead. If you think Aleva or Woodward are\were bad, Broadhead was 10x worse.

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This may be the worst, most misinformed, uninformed, incorrect, drunken history, 4-page thread I’ve ever read on TD - and that’s saying a lot.

Holy shite, names, dates, events, timing of events completely wrong and repeated over and over again. I wasn’t even a teenager yet when Arnsparger was hired as LSU HC and have a better understanding of everything that transpired of his tenure and departure, Spurrier, etc. This is an embarrassing thread to read.

Uncle Bill did not like recruiting and he did not like Dale Brown and felt like Broadhead was letting Dale run wild and unchecked, which....he kinda was.

Good defensive coach but 3 of the worst bowl games we ever played were under him. The one where he let all the players find their own way to the bowl games may be one of the craziest things I've heard of.

Arnsparger didn’t hire Spurrier away from lsu, per se. Yes, spurrier was the Duke HC prior to Fla.
However, spurrier was interviewed for the vacancy in 86-87. He was coaching the Tampa bay bandits of the USFL. He wanted the lsu job and called it a “sleeping giant”. The players wanted Archer promoted and Arnsparger was also in favor of the promotion. Spurrier reiterated this because he likes to tell the story of “I wanted that job and I never got a second interview.”
He never let us forget it.
“Ok. Let’s drop half a hundred on these boys and go home.”
Arnsparger was “tired of coaching”.
That is until he left Fla to become DC for the San Diego chargers and led them to a Super Bowl appearance.

And fricked us in the process pushing the promotion of Mike Archer as head coach :(

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My dad was on Bill’s staff. We had to spend Christmas on Memphis and it sucked!

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And we played like dog shite against a very average Baylor team and got our arse beat.

If I recall, the weather sucked too...wasn't it rainy and cold?

Spurrier wanted the LSU job. So did Mike Shanahan. They weren’t even considered because Archer was a done deal from the beginning.