I mean, sort of? Yes, there are some goof things about the job, namely the backyard talent in a state that has no other major competitors. It's similar to OSU in that regard.
But the game has changed. Access to local talent is important but easily the most declining important factor in the landscape. Access to money is the most important factor now, followed distantly by everything else. I don't know what LSU's situation is there, but if they can't pay Brian Kelly I suspect that isn't wonderful.
In that regard, I agree with you. I have no idea how LSU will be able to fare in the new environment. That's still yet tbd and I don't have much of an opinion about that one way or the other.
I only meant the overly political environment of that job has not changed. Shit-shows occasionally break out around there, mostly when somebody isn't winning at the clip the powers that be think they should be winning. When things go bad, there are people with levers-of-power they probably shouldn't have, pulling them when they probably shouldn't. It doesn't happen often, so in the national consciousness and even in the minds of LSU fans, we forget that it's always lurking there behind the curtain.
I suspect the job's attractiveness--whatever its level is--doesn't change much because of this. My contention is that most coaches haven't found out anything new about the job they didn't already know. I would think it's well known in coaching circles that the LSU job comes with a lot of meddling if you don't win enough, and shady backroom political shenanigans if "they" think you need to go. I also suspect that coaches have known that same thing for a long time, ergo, this all won't change much.
otoh, there is something to be said for the phenomenon of how you can know
about something that happens every now and then, and the difference between that and having just witnessed it. It could be that I'm more or less correct that in the long term, this won't change much, yet, in the short term, i.e. this current hire, could suffer because of it.
But I do want to point y'all back to the end of 2015. The AD tried to fire Les Miles, and he did, sort of, except half of the board revolted, Les beat A&M (again, lol) before the AD had gathered his full measures of gonads to make it official, and.....he wasn't fired? Maybe? It was chaos and turmoil, and nobody could agree on if he was staying or going, or who had the power to send him packing if he was gone. It was certainly public, though the maybe the media didn't stoke the fires as much as now for whatever reason, possibly including, but not limited to, Gov. Jindal at the time had the sense not to make his machinations public, if he even cared or was involved. Then the 2016 season started and Les was still coaching, but with civil war still going on, and with no firm backing of the administration, and it was kind of understood, only an NC will get you out of this. Welp, a season-opening loss to Wisconsin later, the anti-Les faction strong-armed the supporting faction and proceeded with the most transparent coup possible. They had no real cause, and they couldn't hang their hat on anything in 2015, so they waited until LSU lost to Auburn in week 4, and poof, he had to be fired for that. Because losing to Auburn is not something LSU ever does (eye roll). Anyway.....there's more to recap there, but it was a farce, not unlike this current one, except it lasted longer.
And it's not the only other one I've witnessed in my lifetime.
Meh......it's Louisiana, it's LSU. I know this, they know this, I
think coaches know this. It's a great job.....if you win. If you don't, it may well be a worse job than most. My $0.02
