College Football Stuff

[bamafan]

Never one to agree with this guy but he's got a point.

Wonder how much got kicked back to him.

 

[paultzman]

Long, but great piece on one tough kid & Heisman candidate.

 

[paultzman]

Ouch!

 

[austour]

I believe it's Emeril's call.

 

[SJUNC]

Ouch!

This is gonna be a mess. Hiring a President who will fire the AD not the best time to be hiring a coach. Also AD is being incorrectly slandered about having signed both Kelly and Jimbo to their buyout deals. He hired Jimbo in 2018 but was already at LSU when Jimbo was extended in 2020 mainly because A & M was afraid he would go to LSU. AD has done a phenomenal job fundraising, facilities and did hire a women's BB coach who won a National Championship and a baseball coach who won two. Kelly did not work about but Scott Woodward is as good an AD as there is in the country. Plus he is an LSU guy, born and raised in Baton Rouge.

 

[kranmars]

This is gonna be a mess. Hiring a President who will fire the AD not the best time to be hiring a coach. Also AD is being incorrectly slandered about having signed both Kelly and Jimbo to their buyout deals. He hired Jimbo in 2018 but was already at LSU when Jimbo was extended in 2020 mainly because A & M was afraid he would go to LSU. AD has done a phenomenal job fundraising, facilities and did hire a women's BB coach who won a National Championship and a baseball coach who won two. Kelly did not work about but Scott Woodward is as good an AD as there is in the country. Plus he is an LSU guy, born and raised in Baton Rouge.

That is all well and good. But let’s face it, ADs at schools like LSU, will ultimately be judged by the successes failures of the football program.

Ed Orgeron was a local and won a national title at LSU in one of the most dominant seasons in memory. Yet he was fired as the program went downhill (and bringing in Kelly to replace him).

Kelly was a disastrous hire for LSU, which is one of the best jobs in the country.

 

[SJUNC]

That is all well and good. But let’s face it, ADs at schools like LSU, will ultimately be judged by the successes failures of the football program.

Ed Orgeron was a local and won a national title at LSU in one of the most dominant seasons in memory. Yet he was fired as the program went downhill (and bringing in Kelly to replace him).

Kelly was a disastrous hire for LSU, which is one of the best jobs in the country.

Orgeron was fired mainly for off the field activities and Kelly was not successful but I wouldn't term it a disaster. Anyway timing is awful with uncertainty in administration and fine if you want to fire AD but don't make up stories that the national press has chosen to run with.