Just how close was LSU football to actually hiring Jimbo Fisher as the program's replacement for Les Miles in 2016?
According to former Tigers athletic director Joe Alleva, Fisher making his way back to Baton Rouge was never going to happen under his watch.
Alleva, in a recent interview with The Advocate, said that Fisher was never an option, despite the then-Florida State head coach being linked to the position after LSU fired Miles several games into the 2016 campaign. In fact, Alleva had already made up his mind on that matter as early as November 2015, when Miles was on the hot seat amid a three-game losing streak for the Tigers after a 7-0 start that fall. Speculation of Fisher to LSU was already present at that point.
“I still have a lot of friends in the ACC,” Alleva told the Advocate. “I talked to them, and after that I didn’t want any part of Jimbo. I would never have hired Jimbo. He was never on my radar. Now, fans and some people in the department wanted him, but I never wanted him.
“I could have made a change (at the end of the 2015 season). I recommended not to. Because I would have been forced to hire Jimbo. I would rather have had Les. But if I didn’t hire him, the outcry would have been ridiculous. So we had that meeting during the (Texas A&M) game, and I made the recommendation to keep (Miles).”
Even when Alleva did make the call to fire Miles in 2016, the former LSU athletic director said that Fisher's contract demands ultimately steered Alleva clear of considering Fisher for the job.
At a glance, Fisher to LSU would have seemed like a logical move if. Fisher served as the team's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2000-2006, a stretch that saw the Tigers win the BCS National Championship at the end of the 2003 campaign. With Fisher only several years removed from leading Florida State to a national championship in 2013 at the time of LSU's search for a new head coach, the timing couldn't have seemed any better.
Of course, LSU opted to make Ed Orgeron the team's permanent head coach after the Tigers went 6-2 during his period as the team's interim coach in 2016 after Miles was let go. Fisher, meanwhile, spent one more season in Florida State during the 2017 campaign before agreeing to a 10-year, $75 million deal to become the head coach at Texas A&M -- an offer that Alleva said "satisfied" Fisher's demands. Ironically, the man who hired Fisher in College Station, then-Texas A&M athletic director Scott Woodward, replaced Alleva as LSU's athletic director last April.
Fast forward to today though, and the decision to simply remove the interim tag Orgeron's title at the end of the 2016 season proved to be a winning one for LSU. The top-ranked, undefeated Tigers will have a chance at capturing the program's fourth national championship on Monday when the team faces No. 3 Clemson at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As for Fisher and Co., the Aggies are coming off an 8-5 finish that was capped off with a Texas Bowl victory over Oklahoma State in December. The first meeting between Fisher and Orgeron in November 2018 saw A&M prevail over LSU in a thrilling 74-72 seven overtime victory, but the Tigers got the better of the Aggies this past November with a 50-7 rout in Baton Rouge.
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