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re: Dinardo....how did he pull off those first 2.5 good seasons?
Posted on 1/12/09 at 9:34 am to PiscesTiger
Posted on 1/12/09 at 9:34 am to PiscesTiger
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the real reason by Dinardo's rise and fall.
It's simple, really.
He sold his soul to the devil
in exchange for being able to beat Florida once. Then, he thought he could handle the rest by himself.
Like all others who find themselves in league with Satan, he failed to read the fine print.
It's simple, really.
He sold his soul to the devil
in exchange for being able to beat Florida once. Then, he thought he could handle the rest by himself. Like all others who find themselves in league with Satan, he failed to read the fine print.
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Posted on 1/12/09 at 9:37 am to Tiger Phil
Rosemary's Baby plot = similar to DiNardo.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 10:11 am to ChuckDockery
Faulk + Faneca + Mawae
Posted on 1/12/09 at 10:12 am to Cheers
quote:Played for Curley
Mawae
Posted on 1/12/09 at 10:17 am to ChuckDockery
Gerry shoulda had us running the I-bone!
Posted on 1/12/09 at 10:22 am to ATLTiger
Dinardo was not a bad coach at all, his problem is that he hired his friends, who were unqualified, to work with him.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 10:39 am to Chimlim
The terrible inconsistencies of the Dinardo regime started to stick out like a sore thumb as early as year 3.
97--LSU beats #1 Florida. One week later loses to an unranked, far less talented Ole Miss team at home in a game that will forever live in infamy.
Later that year, LSU goes to Tuscaloosa to give ALabama their worst regular season home loss in history 27-0. One week later, an unranked, far inferior Notre Dame throttles LSU 24-6 in a game that was not as close as the score.
In 1998, thru mid season Dinardo fails to admit the defense is not living up to expectations
IMHO, this guy never belonged on our coaching sideline in the first place. I will forever be pissed this guy put me thru 3 agonizing years of football as an undergraduate student
97--LSU beats #1 Florida. One week later loses to an unranked, far less talented Ole Miss team at home in a game that will forever live in infamy.
Later that year, LSU goes to Tuscaloosa to give ALabama their worst regular season home loss in history 27-0. One week later, an unranked, far inferior Notre Dame throttles LSU 24-6 in a game that was not as close as the score.
In 1998, thru mid season Dinardo fails to admit the defense is not living up to expectations
IMHO, this guy never belonged on our coaching sideline in the first place. I will forever be pissed this guy put me thru 3 agonizing years of football as an undergraduate student
This post was edited on 1/12/09 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/12/09 at 11:19 am to Chimlim
quote:
his problem is that he hired his friends, who were unqualified, to work with him.
Maybe, but I heard from various folks associated with the program and Dinardo was a control freak in the early years, then tried to loosen up only to be Lou Tepper'ed. I've heard he would go so far as to chew out bus drivers on road trips if the buses weren't perfectly aligned when they parked. Sounds like he had a tough time establishing an identity, which his team fed off of and then he lost their respect.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 12:15 pm to Hootie
I watched a classic LSU vs Kentucky game this year and had forgotten just how bad the defence was with Tepper. Well until this year with the CO-tex D's.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 12:23 pm to LSUDad
quote:
Its hard to fine guys that knew less than him.
Wrong. Dinardo knew/knows football and knows coaching. His problems have been noted here, and they have to do with hire/fire. He did that poorly.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 12:27 pm to saintsfan22
quote:
Basically it just boils down to Lou Tepper, even with all the disciplinary problems in '98 and '99 people would have been a lot less concerned if those were 9-10 win seasons.
+1
Dinardo failed when he wouldnt correct the DC situation. Many of us remember this and feared Miles would repeat that mistake.
Dinardo was also screwed with the Josh Booty deal, I personally think some higher-ups had a hand in Booty playing.
And I've never been convinced that the defense was not on the take. There was a suspicious air around back then with the horrifying pass defense and the MasterP element.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 12:32 pm to LSUDad
I talked to a former player a few years back and he basically told me that when Dinardo first came in, he adusted his playbook and approach for different teams and thus, was a good coach. He went on to say that as Dinardo became more successful he also became more stubborn and started refusing to adjust his play calling for different games.
This stubborness was also shown when he refused to fire Tepper.
This stubborness was also shown when he refused to fire Tepper.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 2:55 pm to ChuckDockery
The staff that he brought with him from Vandy was pretty good.
Ron Case the DB Coach left and the defense started to crack. Then Dinardo and his ego ran off Reese, then he brought in Tepper. So the defense was shot. Morris Watts the OC/Quarterback Coach left for Michigan State and he promoted a poor WR Coach to OC and that shot the offense.
Ron Case the DB Coach left and the defense started to crack. Then Dinardo and his ego ran off Reese, then he brought in Tepper. So the defense was shot. Morris Watts the OC/Quarterback Coach left for Michigan State and he promoted a poor WR Coach to OC and that shot the offense.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 4:14 pm to AlxTgr
quote:After his second or third year, when DiNardo was on top of the LSU world, I met a player who starred on one of his teams.
Dinardo knew/knows football and knows coaching.
He told me "DiNardo will never win an SEC title." I was shocked, because we seemed to be up-and-coming.
The guy explained that he was instructed to use a stance that was getting him killed on the line against Florida. The player kept begging the coach to allow him to change his technique, and was refused.
That's when he knew DiNardo would fail at coaching.
That's when I learned there was trouble brewing in Tigerland.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 5:12 pm to LSUgusto
I was really pulling for Dinardo. I liked him and thought he was class. Plus he was 1-0 vs. Saban. 
Posted on 1/12/09 at 5:21 pm to ChuckDockery
quote:
I will forever be pissed this guy put me thru 3 agonizing years of football as an undergraduate student.
Uhhhhh... Count yourself lucky. My Freshman year was '91. I had to endure Curly. Thank God I was on the 6 year program. Otherwise, I would never had seen the light at the end of the tunnel that was DiNardo. Imagine the poor bastards a year or two older than me who saw the end of Archer & the beginning of Hallman.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 5:22 pm to Ghost of Colby
quote:
Imagine the poor bastards a year or two older than me who saw the end of Archer & the beginning of Hallman.
I hear suicide rate is highest among 37-38 year olds in LA.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 5:33 pm to Good Times
quote:You could be right, but I don't like to say that because I wasn't there in the coaching circles, and I don't know what all goes into the appearance of being a good DC candidate. It may have been impossible to recognize before he got the job that Tepper was so awful at it. So I give DiNardo the benefit of the doubt for hiring Tepper having simply been a mistake, but not a crippling one.
I believe HIRE is a more appropriate word. JMHO
Refusing to fire him when he failed miserably at his job is a different story. I don't have to know anything about football coaching or defense to know that 4-7 sucks. Something was horribly wrong, and the odds-on favorite was the new DC rather than the OC whose offense set scoring records that season. Sadly, however, it was that record setting OC who was let go, and Tepper who stayed. And the '99 results speak for themselves. At that point, DiNardo's actions were no longer excusable, or even forgivable.
He simply had to go.
Posted on 1/12/09 at 5:41 pm to Ghost of Colby
quote:
Imagine the poor bastards a year or two older than me who saw the end of Archer & the beginning of Hallman.
I was one, started in '90 & graduated in '94.
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