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re: State budget cost LSU getting jimbo Fisher in 2015
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:25 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:25 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Ross is retarded.
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Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:26 pm to Byrdybyrd05
We dodged a bullet not getting him
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:26 pm to Tiger Tracker
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Yep. Jindal really fricked the school and the irony is that he created the fricking budget crisis to begin with! Then he decided he wanted to run for President and left the State to deal with this shite. I really can't stand Jindal.
Jindal was a lame duck Governor by November 2015, you need to look at the current guy. It was JBE calling that shot and pressuring Alexander.
This post was edited on 11/20/18 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:28 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Good. Glad we didn't get jimbo
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:29 pm to jkylejohnson
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The most recent opportunity to bring Fisher to LSU came in 2016, when the Tigers actually did fire Miles. Committee members discussed Fisher as a candidate at length and had his requested contract numbers. They were roughly what Texas A&M eventually agreed to, only the term of the contract was shorter. “We were not convinced he was the best candidate in our pool,” one committee member told SI. Was he really worth $7 million-plus a year? Decision-makers chose to move on to their top two candidates: then Houston coach Tom Herman and Orgeron, Miles’s interim replacement.
Ewing is like so many in Baton Rouge who believe the closest Fisher came to getting the LSU top job was in 2015, before the Tigers, somewhat unwittingly, left him at the altar.
“Everybody wanted him to come back,” he says. “If we could have swung that first deal [in 2015], I think he would have come back.” The calls to fire Miles that season began after the Tigers sustained the second of what would be three straight losses. Intermediaries at LSU reached out to Fisher’s agent, Jimmy Sexton. Fisher’s requested contract numbers were a bargain compared to those in 2016 and what A&M agreed to last year. “Jimbo was interested, and we were very interested in him,” an LSU source with knowledge of the talks told SI.
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:33 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Don’t want Fisher Gruden’ing our program (he wanted total control along with a massive guaranteed contract)
Didn’t want Herman either though. Or O.
Mullen/Gundy/Patterson/Leach please.
Didn’t want Herman either though. Or O.
Mullen/Gundy/Patterson/Leach please.
This post was edited on 11/20/18 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:40 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Yet the state can come up with $400 million over 20 years to the richest man Louisiana, Tom Benson(now his old lady), after he threatened to move the team to San Antonio after Katrina?
This post was edited on 11/20/18 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 11/20/18 at 6:49 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Penny wise, pound foolish
The LSU beat goes on
The LSU beat goes on
Posted on 11/20/18 at 7:06 pm to ellessuuuu
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Jindal was a lame duck Governor by November 2015, you need to look at the current guy. It was JBE calling that shot and pressuring Alexander.
Umm who was the guy who put LA in a budget crisis? I believe his name is Bobby Jindal. Also any proof that JBE had anything to do with this. Never once heard JBE pushed this until now.
Posted on 11/20/18 at 8:52 pm to ellessuuuu
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Jindal was a lame duck Governor by November 2015, you need to look at the current guy. It was JBE calling that shot and pressuring Alexander
Nope this was all Jindal, and I voted for him twice. Don't be so partisan to blame this on JBE. First off, JBE is much more pro LSU than Jindal ever was. Second, Jindal was still Governor and mid-year budget cuts were a constant under Jindal. Go back and look at it. He did not want to have the politics of cutting the state for Higher Ed while at the same time firing a coach. The Entire LSU BOS at that time were Jindal appointees and as of last summer, they still controlled the board.
Third, Jindal basically undid an election for the Stelly plan. Whatever you thought of it that plan was approved by voters. He used his position to trade off things he wanted for other things and got this voted out via the legislature by whatever majority it needed to undue a state election. He also vetoed recurring temporary taxes that lapsed every 2 years, but had been on the books for 20 plus years. It was not a new tax. Nope, Jindal created this budget mess LSU was in and was the villain in this one. Now, King Alexander and the LSU BOS don't get a pass either. The fact is that King Alexander and the LSU BOS did not have the gumption to tell him where to go. None of this was state money, it was all perception and how Jindal's political operatives thought this would make him look with the first Republican 2016 presidential primaries just over a month away. (debates had already started).
Posted on 11/21/18 at 12:45 am to JKChesterton
I for one am happy the way everything turned out.
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