I am sure a few people will disagree BUT Robiskie would be the best option I think!

Call it BS if you want, I am just being realistic, unlike a lot of people on this board.

 

Here's his answer to a chat session a few years ago to a question about pro assistants taking college jobs. I think if you read between the lines, you'll find some interesting stuff here.

Q. Can you talk about how the coaching landscape has changed over the years? It seems that more NFL head coaches, assistant head coaches, they kind of have their eyes on the college movement these days. Why do you think that more coaches are looking to go to college?

COACH TERRY ROBISKIE: I think the situation is if you can get to a point where you can go to college, there is a lot of college positions out there that are starting to look at football, college football as a big business. And when you sit down, and from what I hear, quote, unquote, "rumors," when you see a school like the University of Southern California supposedly talking to a gentleman named Dennis Erickson and rumors says he's being offered anywhere from a $1.5 million to $2 million a year, it's very interesting. A lot of professional coaches are starting to talk to colleges.

The thing that is a little different today for professional football coaches, I think it's became a lot more business-wise, for the coaching fraternity as it is for the players, where all of a sudden it's not that longevity. It's not that you are with a football team, with an organization and you are married to it.

I was with the Raiders for 14 years, had a tremendous career. I loved every second I was there. A lot of scenarios today won't present themselves that way. You take, for example, Coach Rhodes with his staff, goes up to Green Bay last year, God, they were there for a year. Most of the places I think through the history of the NFL, they hire a coaching staff, they bring coaches in there, they give them some time, they give them ten years, they give them time to get it going, to finish the job. It's changing extremely fast. They say the new generation of order is we want results and we want it yesterday. I don't think a lot of people are spending as much time these days with the head coaches and giving them the time to get it done. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't have the answer to that, but I just know it's not happening.

 

I don't believe that's true. There will be some, of course:dis:, but not enough to make a difference. Alabama has always insisted on hiring a player or coach associated with the Bryant era. With Robiskie we have a chance to have a ldskule:Chollie Macldskule: era player for a coach, I think it's a nice parallel:grin:. Robiskie is a New Orleans native too, he should do fantastic with the recruiting down there.

 

I totally agree, and have said the same thing.. Miss St. got away with the first black head coach in the SEC, but don't think that the rest of the SEC would follow suit anytime soon.

 

The old money at LSU. The ones that make the program go around. The ones that you dont know I can promise you are not going to allow a black coach at LSU. The old people with the money have more influence than what people care to believe.

If LSU does hire a black coach he would be under such pressure because of what I said above that it wouild be very unfair to him. his every move would be under a microscope and heaven help him if he lost a couple of games.

I dont agree with it but thats the way it would be. Like it or not

 

We already have a black head coach--Pokey Chatman!!!! Oh! and she has her team ranked #1 in the nation for anyone that hasn't noticed! :thumb: