Report: LSU has reached out to two coaches about head coaching vacancy
According to a report from LSU’s Scout.com site, LSU has already reached out to both Houston head coach Tom Herman and former Baylor head coach Art Briles.
Multiple sources have told @LSUonScout that #LSU has reached out to Tom Herman and Art Briles through their agents.
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Herman is a red-hot name within the coaching profession. He turned Houston from a middling program into one firmly embedded within the Top 10. Relying upon player development and excellent recruiting skills, he’s very similar to his former employer Urban Meyer.
With Houston attempting to move to the Big 12, it will be fascinating to see whether Houston opts to offer a contract extension (with a huge raise) as a means to keep Herman from leaving.
Briles was jettisoned from Waco amidst a rape scandal involving the football program. Prior to that, Baylor evolved into a power within the Big 12. Briles is known for putting up a ton of points with a high-octane scheme — something LSU hasn’t had in recent memory.
Interim head coach Ed Orgeron certainly can’t be discounted, either. Orgeron is a native of the state of Louisiana, is a ridiculously good recruiter, and has experience coaching multiple major football programs (USC, Ole Miss).
Why are we reaching out to Briles? It’s too early to be that desperate.
Agree. Don’t touch Briles with a 10 ft. pole.
Briles…..wow
Y’all knew that they’d try to get Herman. But if I were Herman it would be stupid to leave right now. they’re still in the hunt for the playoff.
They are not expecting him to leave until the end of the season, if they can interest him at all.
Why not give Orgerkn his due?
Let auburn be the disgusting “win at all costs” team that gets Briles after Bama spanks Gus’ a$$ out the door. Get Herman and LSU vs Bama will once again be the best rivalry. LSU is too good of a program for Briles. Herman won’t leave till the end of the season but he’ll take the LSU job.
I’m thinking you are correct. I am definitely hoping you are. If we could get Herman and keep our defensive staff together, that would be sweet.
Coming from the team that had Mike Price as a coach…
He lasted about as long as a Auburn coach….
An* Auburn coach.
Before you got Saban there was quite the coaching carousel going on over there at teabag u, wasn’t sure if you were a true fan and remembered that era or jumped on the bandwagon when saban turned it around.
Of course I remember it but it seems like Auburn fans can’t remember the past when it applies to their own team either.
No reason for Herman to go to LSU. UH program is freaking hot while the LSU program will need a complete rebuild.
Complete rebuild? You are CRAZY AS HELL!
Don’t worry buddy, Herman would be a freaking idiot to stay at uh unless y’all win the championship
Of course Herman would leave Houston for a prestigious SEC school. I just hope they don’t try to come after Lane Kiffin. He’s had an unusual path, but he seems to have regained confidence (and toned down his ego).
He has implemented a successful offense at Bama. Would hate to see him go, but I know he’ll go somewhere.
Why would they come after Lane Kiffin? lol
Ya gotta be kidding me with Briles? He might have turned Baylor into a Big 12 power but that is still a middle-of-the-road SEC team and he is still in the middle of a rape scandal. Maybe LSU thinks they will get him cheaper, they don’t have to buy out his contract and he might take less money, either way Briles is an awful hire. Herman would be the best IF they can get him.
Not a LSU fan but I loved Les, he was nuts. I think this one is gonna eventually bite LSU on the butt. Look what happened to USC after Kiffin was left at the airport, he shows up later and spanks their butt with a new team.
Hardly a complete rebuild. That D is ready to go, and Etling and company will need a little time to learn a new system, that’s all.
Let the games begin. This will be entertaining. The keystone cops will have nothing on this. Someone will need to put a tent over this circus.
Go ahead and talk junk while you can. UT will suck AGAIN next year…like they ALWAYS do! 😂
And I’m just an out out of control, emtional LSU fan! And I’m glad y’all beat UF
Well douche, if anyone is an expert on what a circus looks like, it damn sure is a vols fan…
Please God, no briles
Briles is an odd choice for sure. Whatever happens, this season is most likely done. They need to change the offensive and it’ll be tough for anyone to do that in-season. LSU has the talent to compete for everything next year if they make the right hire. I’d be going after Dantonio.
Dantonio is to close to the end of his career for lsu. And also I think they’ll go offensive minded. It’ll be interesting to see though. I could see them reaching out west somewhere.
I know coaches all have an ego and think “I can do better” but LSU just fired a coach who consistently had among the top recruiting classes, sent many players to the NFL and was all but guaranteed nine plus wins a season. Yeah he had problem with Saban and Alabama but who doesn’t? I think some coaches might not be so quick to move to the Bayou.
Bridles is a good x&o coach who let his program tragically get out from under him. He would take the LSU job for a second chance. However, I suspect he will want a level of control over the program nobody will give him.
As I said on another post, Herman is trendy, but can stay put and still end up in a Power conference since Houston is talking to the Big 10.
I think, and I hope for my Masters degree alma mater I’m wrong, they will look at Willie Taggert, at USF. The defense wasn’t that good yesterday against FSU, but their offense did hang 30+ on the Noles, and USF has been winning more games each year he’s been there.
Taggert is not a candidate for LSU. Briles is on no position to demand anything. He surely will not ask for or expect any control. The Big 12 has not offered Houston an invite. Why would he wait for a maybe?
Yeah any program that hires Briles lacks any bit of self respect. Talk to Herman. Wait and see how Coach O does. Maybe consider Kiffin.
Gonna save this for when Briles isn’t announced as Auburn’s HC next year. Lmfao.
Gus Malzahn’s not going anywhere after this season. We’ll get to 8-5 and he’ll be given another year. After that, who knows?
I don’t trust AD Jay Jacobs to make the right decision. Firing Chizik was a mistake. Letting Tuberville walk was a mistake. Hiring Malzahn? I’m not sure whether or not it was a mistake.
If your right and Malzahn does end up fired by the end of the season, I’d like to see us target PJ Fleck or Lane Kiffin, should both of them still be at their respective schools. If Auburn hires Briles, I won’t watch them play. I won’t buy any Auburn gear. Hell, I might just start rooting for Tennessee.
I don’t get why people want coach Orgeron. He was horrible at Ole Miss, and known to skirt the rules when it comes to recruiting. He is almost as risky a hire as Briles. Obviously Herman is the guy any intelligent AD would want, it’s just going to come down to if Houston gets into the Big 12. If they do why leave and join the brutal SEC West when you have a much easier road going through the Big 12. If Houston doesn’t get in then Herman should definitely be the guy.
Now now V@ls1998, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. No Orgeron is NOT a step in the right direction. I wonder if LSU could find a coach who has won 1 National
2 SEC championships and 3 SEC Division crowns. Now that would be a good coach… oh wait…. never mind.
If LSU hires Briles, I would wish that LSU would lose every single game from then out. Briles has a history of coaching his players to do whatever it takes to win, regardless of safety and/or rules. His Texas High School teams were dirty players and the bulk of his players at Baylor were no better. I am not a fan of LSU, but the SEC deserves better than Briles.
Additionally, if Briles is hired at LSU you can kiss games like LSU vs Wisconsin, LSU vs any halfway decent team in the regular season good-bye.
For the record, HCs don’t make schedules. That’s the job of the AD and it’s done many yrs in advance. LSU has a long history of playing good ooc games and that won’t change no matter who the coach is.
Please please please hire Lane Kiffin! I would love to see another bus pull off with him standing in the parking lot!
That said, Briles is tarnished regardless of ability and Herman sure won’t give any kind of answer until January at the earliest making early recruiting take a serious hit. And that’s if Houston doesn’t join the Big-12, which gives him a much easier season to get through than the cannibalistic SEC West. Welcome to the coaching carousel LSU, I’m sure we will all enjoy your ride!
The delusion is real. Tom Herman is not leaving UH for LSU or any other school not named Ohio state for that matter. If, and when UH gets into the big 12 they’ll be the best team in the conference hands down. For the people that think it will come down to money, do you think UH can’t match any offer a power 5 school can’t? It’s a tier 1 research institution and the 3rd biggest university in Texas. Herman would prefer to remain the big fish in the little pond and get paid like a big fish in a big pond.
LSU has no chance. Get off you’re own d***
As a technician, Briles is a very solid HC. In many ways brilliant. It’s his ethics that give pause.
I don’t think anybody would have a problem with hiring Briles. We honestly don’t know the full extent of what went down.
I’m not defending his actions or the perpetual allegations; I’m simply stating the facts.
Remember that when we continue to destroy your team every year.
Regardless of who our coach is.
Doesn’t the SEC have enough drama without inviting in a man who literally sheltered rapists?
LSU would be lucky to get Herman That first-weekend win over Oklahoma was a joy to watch.
At the moment, you would have to say that HOUSTON is a better job than LSU.
LMFAO. In no way form or fashion is UH a better job than LSU. UH is a nice little niche program that can win a big game about once per decade. LSU is firmly entrenched as a top 10 job. UH isn’t even in the same galaxy as LSU in regards to football. Put the crack pipe down!!
Once again. This self proclaimed prestige permeates among the toothless LSU.
UH is a small niche program? lol The only program in Texas that can’t beat the mighty LSU is tu.
Fact UH is a larger campus than LSU: 42,704 to 31,527
Fact UH has won more “big” games in the last two years than LSU
Fact UH is ranked 6th, LSU is ranked garbage
Fact LSU IS not its former self: Why on earth would they fire and hire a new coach?
Fact UH would mud stomp LSU 4/5 times if they lined up to played today.
Aside from money, what makes LSU a top 10 job? Please don’t start off with “it’s a better program, or we’re just better, or anything that can not be supported empirically.
Can we assume that Herman or any other rising coach would want the LSU job because it’ll be his best chance to land an NFL job?
News flash it’s 2016, CFB head coaches make comparable salaries, and some coaches don’t even want NFL jobs.
You better hope UH doesn’t make the CFP, because Herman would definitely not walk away from a P5 conference where he would be the best, and pretty much automatic CFP bid the following year as well.
Neaux Tigers Neaux! lol
You go on a tirade like this and then call others delusional?
Nice.
You are loving in a dream world. Houston is having a nice run. Congrats on that. So did Hawaii. So did Boise St. So did Temple, South Florida, Rutgers, and the Jamaican bobsled team.
Maybe your man doesn’t take the job. Maybe he does. But here’s what’s certain: while everyone is really happy for Houston, at the end of the day, remember: this is temporary. And Houston will never be any coach’s “destination job”.