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57stratdawg

57stratdawg

Heisman
Dec 1, 2004
148,390
24,168
113
Did you realize Les Miles hasn't had an assistant coach go on to be a HC since Larry Porter in 2010? Doesn't that seem kind of low? I cant think of a coach leaving LSU for a better position elsewhere either. Jumbo left for OC/coach in waiting, and Pelini left in 2009 for Nebraska.

Compare that with Bama who has had countless guys leave (Pruitt, OC to Colorado State, even Sunseri last year), and Kirby Smart waiting. Mullen lost Hudspeth to ULL in 2011.
 
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stinkfoot

Redshirt
Aug 23, 2012
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Isn't Jimbo really a Saban coach? He was there much longer under saban and left

57stratdawg said:
Did you realize Les Miles hasn't had an assistant coach go on to be a HC since Larry Porter in 2010? Doesn't that seem kind of low? I cant think of a coach leaving LSU for a better position elsewhere either. Jumbo left for OC/coach in waiting, and Pelini left in 2009 for Nebraska.

Compare that with Bama who has had countless guys leave (Pruitt, OC to Colorado State, even Sunseri last year), and Kirby Smart waiting. Mullen lost Hudspeth to ULL in 2011.
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LSU shortly after the arrival of the hat.
 
57stratdawg

57stratdawg

Heisman
Dec 1, 2004
148,390
24,168
113
Good point. So, two guys in 7 years? One (Porter) didn't make it a full year.
 
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esplanade91

Redshirt
Dec 9, 2010
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To be fair those are two different types of coaches. Les Miles is one of the best coaches in the country if you allow him to oversee a group of assistants he hand picks. My friend who goes to LSU refers to it as "CEO coaching"... Nick Saban is their defensive coordinator if we want to get down to it.

In my personal opinion I feel as if people hire away from coaches like Saban or to a lesser extent Mullen because they are an "expert" at something to do with football. Hud was already a proven quality HC but he went and was a valuable part of Mullen's staff where he got a healthy dose of modern day full on spread football from one of the guys who helped make it popular.

Les doesn't do anything to further an assistant's career other than help it be known, and at that point they are usually pigeonholed into assistantship... like John Chavis. I think a lot of people would consider him one of if not THE best defensive coordinator in college football but would you want him as your head coach? That's essentially what USM tried this past year. Worked GREAT.
 
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