This is exactly the same kind of job it always has been. Anyone in that business likely knows and understands that.
Louisiana's governor didn't "suddenly" get involved or step somewhere he'd be better off avoiding. The governors have been doing that since there's been a football program. The board didn't suddenly bow to political whims or booster pressure, or power grabs of their own nefarious design. They've been doing that forever. The number of coaches out there are legion who have been assistants here, or GAs, or coordinators, or coached at one of our rivals giving them lots of familiarity with us, or are good friends with people who've been here. The point is literally every coach out there knows and has always known what the LSU job is about.
Because the university was in the process of hiring a new prez, and a bunch of stuff that had already been going on between the governor and the AD came in the public view at the wrong time, right after he fired the coach, leaving the school without for a moment without a coach, AD, and president, it got blown up in media into something the whole thing just isn't. Imagine that.
The politics of that job are gruesome, and likely tiresome to most. It is what it always has been. It takes a certain kind of personality to deal with it, and an even rarer individual to also be a top-notch coach. Saban dealt with this crap, Les dealt with it, Orgeron tried to deal with it and learned the hard way he wasn't that guy. Brian Kelly was fine dealing with it, he just didn't win enough, which will get any coach fired.
I get the inclination to think the place is burning down and that the job has somehow changed or is less desirable now.
For LSU--and those of us who have followed the program and state's shenanigans for decades--it's Tuesday.
The real problem LSU faces is not that the job isn't good or that coaches won't be attracted to it. They're going to line up for it, just like they did when O was fired in a shitshow y'all must have forgotten. The problem is LSU isn't going to want 99% of the people who line up for it, and out of the 1% they do want, it's unlikely any of them will win at the clip they want, which has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with the fact that there's about two guys you can bank on to be amazing and consistently be in contention for NC's, and one of them is on GameDay and the other is on FOX Big Noon Kickoff, and LSU ain't getting either one of 'em.
