5 reasons LSU should hire Jimbo Fisher

4.  Broaden recruiting horizons

As is to be expected, while LSU’s roster is made up of players from all over the country, a vast majority of them hail from the state of Louisiana. This is the case with almost any school – kids grow up watching the local team, they grow up into stud football players, they go on to play for the local team – but this is perhaps especially the case at LSU, which is the only major power in the state. The same can’t be said of FSU, a team also composed mostly of Floridian recruits but which has major in-state competition from the University of Florida and Miami University. For Jimbo Fisher’s prospects as LSU’s head coach, this is a good thing.

More competition for recruits means that deeper bonds are necessary to convince a player to buy into a coach’s vision. That means that Fisher may be more easily able to sway players he’d been trying to sell on Florida State’s program to follow him instead to LSU. In the meantime, LSU, as the only game in town for the best Louisiana high school football has to offer, would be able to continue their dominance of the state without a blip. Such a network of southeastern America’s top talent, if sustained, would put LSU in position to compete for a spot in the College Football Playoff year in and year out on a level with Alabama and Ohio State. That’s all any football team can ask for.