It was a rough 24 hour stretch for the LSU Tigers on the head coach front. While the football team closed out their 2021 season on a high note, two targets found jobs elsewhere. The Florida Gators hired UL-Lafayette’s Billy Napier and USC landed the big fish in Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley.
This left LSU and Scott Woodward on the outside looking in for the moment. Some felt that it was close to a done deal with Riley behind the scenes, you never can tell with these hires. Riley trades the Sooner State for sandy beaches and Southern California life. Napier leaves the Bayou for the Swamp.
If Woodward plans on landing a big fish hire, he is running out of time and candidates. Or could it be that he has someone already lined up? Hard to tell but the last 24 hours have left a lot of folks on the Bayou restless.
Let’s look at a few names that LSU should target: