SEC Network’s Peter Burns suggests how LSU should use Nick Saban moving forward
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SEC Network analyst Peter Burns has digested the reported firing of Brian Kelly as LSU head coach, and he’s got some advice for the beleaguered-but-proud program moving forward.
In a word, or 2 words: Nick Saban. Not to be the next head coach at LSU. Saban has already done that, coaching the Tigers from 2000-04 and winning his first national championship in 2003. The rest is history, of course, as Saban went on to rival Alabama and ripped off 6 more national titles before retiring after the 2023 season.
But Burns has an idea. How about Saban being in charge of LSU’s coaching search to replace Kelly, who had been the head guy in Baton Rouge since 2022. In fact, Burns believes the first thing LSU should do is pick up the phone, call Saban and offer him whatever he wants to be “in charge of the LSU search.”
Cost shouldn’t matter, according to Burns. Just call Saban and let him direct this all-important coaching search for a team that has fallen out of the rankings and is now irrelevant for anything big in 2025.
The Tigers fell to 5-3 overall and 2-3 in the SEC with Saturday’s latest loss, and LSU has reportedly made Frank Wilson its interim head coach.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
