Coaching carousel 2025-26

[CrimsonTheory]

How do you guarantee LSU would have waited? We don’t know that.

Even if that’s the case, it puts him severely behind with the current setup.

What bamabuzzard said.

And I will add that LSU is the top job available. They are the one program that could afford to wait out a couple of weeks. If say a program like Oklahoma or Texas became available, I could understand the urgency but there is not a program like that available. LSU is an impatient perk.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

For those wondering, RICK PITINO said this…….

 

[rolltide_21]

I was perusing their message boards out of sheer curiosity. Their fans were all-in on making a run at DeBoer if we lost the Iron Bowl, but they seemed to have moved on. A lot of them wanted Chesney from JMU but it looks like UCLA has hired him. There’s a prominent poster on Black Shoe Diaries who claims to be “in the know” who says they are talking with someone that would be an absolute home run and compared it to Lincoln Riley leaving OU for USC. This was inferred to be Marcus Freeman - which I’d be shocked by. There’s also talk of them making a run at Heupel, which would be …..interesting?

Who knows. A lot of folks think they’ve swung and missed and will end up promoting the interim guy.

So in other words they have no clue haha

 

[rolltide_21]

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For those wondering, RICK PITINO said this…….

They lost to Bama and AU so I’m projecting a 3-4 seed at best ha! Sorry wrong board.

 

[JDCrimson]

1) "I will remain at Ole Miss."
2) "I have spoken with the PTB at Ole Miss, and we have agreed it is for the best that I resign immediately in pursuit of the LSU job. I wish Ole Miss the best in the playoffs."

I reiterate: this guy has all of the worst qualities of the Alabama coaches who haven't won national championships: Perkins arrogance, Bill Curry fleeing what you've built, Franchione running away from a challenge, Mike Price chasing skirts, even Mike Shula's boneheaded coaching decisions on the field.

He's Bobby Petrino with enough sense to stay off a motorcycle.

But he didnt have enough sense to do much than Petrino while at Bama...

 

[countrytider]

1) "I will remain at Ole Miss."
2) "I have spoken with the PTB at Ole Miss, and we have agreed it is for the best that I resign immediately in pursuit of the LSU job. I wish Ole Miss the best in the playoffs."

I reiterate: this guy has all of the worst qualities of the Alabama coaches who haven't won national championships: Perkins arrogance, Bill Curry fleeing what you've built, Franchione running away from a challenge, Mike Price chasing skirts, even Mike Shula's boneheaded coaching decisions on the field.

He's Bobby Petrino with enough sense to stay off a motorcycle.

If he had done your 2nd point, the Kiffin hate/outrage would still be just as bad for “quitting on his team”….

Even tho upgrading jobs, there was no other way to handle it.

Unless like it was suggested he tell LSU to wait and I don’t think that’s really a legit option from the current setup, the Ole Miss ultimatum, and potentially LSU telling him they won’t wait.

 

[countrytider]

Because Kiffin was their #1 guy, not their 3rd or 4th. There was NO ONE on the open market worth not waiting on Kiffin. A lot of the working mechanics of the contract could have already been worked out through Kiffin's agent and LSU without Kiffin and his family making an overly public visit to Baton Rouge.

Regarding him being "severely behind"? How? He would have the ability to get any of the players who jumped in the portal from Ole Miss after he left and trust me, a lot of them would have followed him to LSU. Lane isn't the victim in this. He and Jimmy Sexton are the ones who laid the foundation for it to turn into this.

I’m not saying he’s the victim. I’m sure there are SOME things he could have handled better…

But comparing this to some of his shenanigans early in his coaching career I don’t see.

With the current setup of college football, I don’t see a whole lot he could have done differently this time.

I give you guys credit for offering a few ideas up though.

I just don’t think this is a fRan move. It’s a clear upgrade program wise, and long-term wise.

I hate LSU tho, so I hope he was a better fit at Ole Miss with the less resources, but less pressure.

I hope he crumbles at LSU with the more resources, but a thousand times more pressure.

We’ll see how it works out obviously.

 

[Toddrn]

Well I think it's a good hire, and he was my choice at Bama to replace Saban.

That's kind of beside the point. I mean it's nothing but a Kiffin bash thread but it's not based upon much substance. Nobody is saying HOW he could have handled it any better, just that he should have handled it better.

I do think it's absolute non-sense to suggest OM is the same as LSU from an overall program standpoint.

But yeah, whatever.

Hello Joey Freshwater. Say Hi to Lane for me.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Hello Joey Freshwater. Say Hi to Lane for me.

You misspelled Heauxy Freshwater.