No. 3: Bob Stoops
There aren’t many former college football coaches who likely get more requests to return to coaching than Bob Stoops. A championship winner with the Oklahoma Sooners and the architect of one of the most consistently successful college football programs of this century, Stoops is a remarkable football mind who could likely lead any program to success. That’s assuming he wants to jump back into coaching. Stoops already has a pretty nice gig with FOX as an analyst and doesn’t have to deal with the everyday stresses that college football provides.
No. 2: Urban Meyer
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer has been going through a tumultuous season in the NFL and it seems likely that he’ll eventually make a return to coaching in the college ranks, where he’s been a historically dominant winner. But what makes Meyer a bad fit for LSU is the scandals that often surround him. Combine that with LSU’s own scandals and it just seems like that would be a bad idea for everyone involved.
No. 1: Jimbo Fisher
Although he didn’t win it at Texas A&M, Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher has a national title to his name and is known for building teams into championship caliber programs, which is exactly what he did at Florida State and is trying to do in College Station. Given that Fisher just led an injury-riddled and inconsistent Texas A&M team to a landmark with over Alabama, his stock looks pretty good right now.
Fisher has been at LSU before and would be a monumental hire if LSU could pull it off. But, the bidding war to get Fisher would be a tough one to win. Fisher is already paid an egregious amount of money by A&M and has a ton of resources at his disposal. Would he leave all that money and the program he’s building in College Station for LSU?
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