What would the fate of LSU football have been if Steve Spurrier was the coach that replaced Nick Saban? That’s something that apparently still lingers on the mind of Paul Finebaum.

During his weekly Monday morning appearance on Birmingham-based WJOX 94.5 FM radio show The Roundtable, the SEC Network host shared that thought while discussing the SEC coaching legend. While Spurrier had a historic run in Columbia, had he taken over the LSU football program built by Saban, it’s interesting to consider how much success could have been achieved in Baton Rouge.

Here’s Finebaum’s exact quote from his appearance on the show.

“The thing that I’ve always wondered, if Spurrier wasn’t so impatient and impetuous, if he had waited a couple of weeks — instead of grabbing the South Carolina job, remember, he was out of coaching for a year — he would have ended up going to LSU and replaced Nick Saban,” Finebaum said on the air. “And you tell me how many national championships he would have won at LSU instead of Les Miles.”

To those that can’t remember the exact specifics, Spurrier was officially hired by South Carolina on Nov. 23, 2004. Miles was hired by LSU on Jan. 2, 2005; after Saban left the Tigers for the Dolphins in late December of 2004.

Without completely discrediting the job Miles did at LSU, he did go 114-34 overall with the Tigers including a win in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game, do you believe Spurrier would have done significantly better?