If you think the search for LSU’s next football coach over the past few weeks has been wild, I’m here to tell you something:

They’re all wild.

This is the seventh coaching search I’ve covered for The Advocate since 1991, and I was in school at LSU for an eighth. They’re almost all messy and at times it seems no one will ever take the job.

Then they hire the guy everyone becomes convinced will — or won’t take them to the promised land: a national championship. And three of them have.

But we’re not here to talk about titles. We’re here to tell stories. Tales from coaching searches past.

So, away we go …

Spurning Spurrier: In 1986, LSU coach Bill Arnsparger announced he was leaving suddenly to become athletic director at Florida after three successful seasons. LSU players emotionally p

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