Definitely a crap shoot anyway you cut it and analyze it. I think regionality of a coach is still relevant to how they fit culturally with a school. But, not as much as it used to be. BK may ultimately be successfull at LSU, but he has a way to go to justify his leaving ND for LSU. He has to drop the "fittin in" personna. For him it may have purely been a personal validation that he could coach down south with the big boys. Sure the academics came into play at ND. There are players that choose them for the academic degree that comes with it. But, that has never kept other coaches from winning championships there. BK just couldn't do it. THe biggest factor IMO, is the leadership in place at a school, and the mess that is in. It took a while to get those folks thru the system at UT so a decent AD an HC could come back in. Auburn is no where close to that crossroad, so the next HC after Harsin will be just as short lived. It has worked at Bama for Saban cause he had the moxy and the clout to say if you want this, this is how it's gonna be. He was as good as it was gonna get at MSU, started paving the way at LSU, and saw something at Bama he could high jack and control and made the move. Honestly he already had himself set up to be just as successful at LSU as he has been at Bama. But, something wasn't quite the way he wanted it apparently and he bolted. At the time he made the move, LSU was the better job because of him and he already held it. LSU is one of those rare locations that a championship team can be fielded nearly every year with in-state recruits. There's no excuse to ever be worse than a two loss team in a bad year.
