LSU fired a coach that nobody wants and hired a coach that nobody wanted but at least they fired a rugby coach and hired a football coach. And then he hired a modern day OC. It will be good to watch a football team vs a football team again.
I can't believe we're still hashing this argument out. Was Les successful? Yes. Did Les need to go? Yes. Was Orgeron most people's 1st choice? No. Should we judge him before he ever fields his 1st team in Death Valley? No. Let's let him have at least a full season before we pass judgement. If he stinks the place up, he'll be on a short leash and my guess is that Aranda would be the new king of the hill. At the end of the day, the 'powers that be' decided that a full program rebuild would be too harsh in the short term. They were probably 100% correct on that. That might have been detrimental in the long run also. Rebuilding a program from the ground up takes 3-4 years before its hitting on all cylinders...that means 3-4 years of watching more kids opt for conference rivals over us as they watch a new coach and staff find their footing while others make playoff runs every year. The last thing we wanted to do was go from 9-10 wins a year to 7-9 wins a year or worse.
It's amazing how many ppl on here can tell the future in regards to O's first full season which hasn't started yet as LSU head coach. It's more amazing how some can compare him as a coach today based on his head coaching of 15 years ago at Ole Piss. Fact is none of us know exactly what we'll see on the field under his regime, but we all know what we would've seen under Miles! I for one am more excited about this season than I have been for the last 5.
The last three years went poorly for Texas. The Longhorns went 16-21 under Charlie Strong, fired him, and replaced him with Houston head coach Tom Herman. The Herman hire was widely praised, but on his first National Signing Day — just a few weeks after taking his new job — Herman succumbed to a common problem for new coaches. He wasn’t able to secure a great recruiting class. The Horns had never signed a class outside the top 20 in the recruiting rankings era, but Herman’s first class finished 26th. Herman is known as a prodigious recruiter for, among other things, having lured five-star defensive tackle Ed Oliver to Houston in the class of 2016. But he had to do damage control in his first few months in Austin, securing Strong’s commitments and adding whatever he could. That wasn’t much.
