Comments on: The Miles High Club http://chicksinthehuddle.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: GW http://chicksinthehuddle.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-360 GW Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:51:06 +0000 http://chicksinthehuddle.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-360 Holy crap. Oh my. Hot damn. Looks like we're in good shape babe. Woo....................... hoo? Holy crap.

Oh my.

Hot damn.

Looks like we’re in good shape babe.

Woo………………….. hoo?

]]> By: nolachick http://chicksinthehuddle.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-359 nolachick Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:32:17 +0000 http://chicksinthehuddle.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-359 Oh Wang, you always know how to bring us back to solid ground when our emotions get the best of us. while i do agree that we should always go for the best candidate and never settle, i think it would just make sense for LSU to do what Michigan is doing. They should look for homegrown talented coaches who may have branched out and are finding success in other programs. I definitely think del rio can count as pseudo home grown considering his tenure with the Saints. my main goal is long term stability for my tigers. plus, what the hell am i gonna do with all those "Les is More" shirts once Miles hits the bricks? Oh Wang, you always know how to bring us back to solid ground when our emotions get the best of us. while i do agree that we should always go for the best candidate and never settle, i think it would just make sense for LSU to do what Michigan is doing. They should look for homegrown talented coaches who may have branched out and are finding success in other programs. I definitely think del rio can count as pseudo home grown considering his tenure with the Saints. my main goal is long term stability for my tigers. plus, what the hell am i gonna do with all those “Les is More” shirts once Miles hits the bricks?

]]> By: GW http://chicksinthehuddle.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-356 GW Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:57:05 +0000 http://chicksinthehuddle.com/2007/11/29/the-miles-high-club/#comment-356 I don't think there are any adequate homegrown candidates, unless you want to loosely apply the term to Jack O' The River. I wouldn't want LSU to hire a lesser qualified "good ole boy" anyway. I shudder to think about LSU having a head coach who isn't getting the job done, but won't leave and you can't fire him because of who he is. Also, remember that when Saban was hired, LSU wasn't that great of a gig. LSU had been down for the better part of two decades. All the local talent was going elsewhere. Etc. Only after Saban changed that did the LSU gig become really attractive to top-tier candidates. But because Saban waited so long to go, LSU was left in a bit of a jam finding a replacement. I believe, I really do, that LSU would have gotten interest from Urban Meyer and Steve Spurrier, had Saban shat/got-off-the-pot a few weeks earlier. But by the time Saban decided, Meyer was at Florida and Spurrier was at USC. Either would surely still be here. Missed it by just a couple weeks. Given the circumstances, with it already being January, I have to think that Miles was probably the best candidate left available. Obviously the Michigan thing was a thing right from day one. But I think you have to take your chance with the best candidate available. Maybe the Michigan job never comes open. Maybe the ensuing three years changes his mind about going if it does. If that doesn't work and he goes, move on to the next guy. Fortunately Miles turned out to be a good hire, capable of keeping the train rolling, and the LSU gig is still one of the best in the country. If the next guy turns out to be Del Rio, I think he loosely qualifies as "homegrown" and will be here for a long time as long as he's successful. If it's another short-timer, no problem, as long as he's a good one. If LSU can sustain this level of success, they'll eventually find the right guy at the right time to stay long-term. I don’t think there are any adequate homegrown candidates, unless you want to loosely apply the term to Jack O’ The River. I wouldn’t want LSU to hire a lesser qualified “good ole boy” anyway. I shudder to think about LSU having a head coach who isn’t getting the job done, but won’t leave and you can’t fire him because of who he is.

Also, remember that when Saban was hired, LSU wasn’t that great of a gig. LSU had been down for the better part of two decades. All the local talent was going elsewhere. Etc. Only after Saban changed that did the LSU gig become really attractive to top-tier candidates. But because Saban waited so long to go, LSU was left in a bit of a jam finding a replacement.

I believe, I really do, that LSU would have gotten interest from Urban Meyer and Steve Spurrier, had Saban shat/got-off-the-pot a few weeks earlier. But by the time Saban decided, Meyer was at Florida and Spurrier was at USC. Either would surely still be here. Missed it by just a couple weeks.

Given the circumstances, with it already being January, I have to think that Miles was probably the best candidate left available. Obviously the Michigan thing was a thing right from day one. But I think you have to take your chance with the best candidate available. Maybe the Michigan job never comes open. Maybe the ensuing three years changes his mind about going if it does. If that doesn’t work and he goes, move on to the next guy.

Fortunately Miles turned out to be a good hire, capable of keeping the train rolling, and the LSU gig is still one of the best in the country. If the next guy turns out to be Del Rio, I think he loosely qualifies as “homegrown” and will be here for a long time as long as he’s successful. If it’s another short-timer, no problem, as long as he’s a good one. If LSU can sustain this level of success, they’ll eventually find the right guy at the right time to stay long-term.

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