{"id":264779,"date":"2025-11-01T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264779\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:55:10","slug":"jordan-rodgers-pitches-brian-hartline-kellen-moore-for-lsu-job-after-dismissing-lane-kiffin-as-a-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264779\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Rodgers pitches Brian Hartline, Kellen Moore for LSU job after dismissing Lane Kiffin as a candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given all the chaos that\u2019s unfolded over the last week in Baton Rouge following Sunday\u2019s tumultuous firing of fourth-year head football coach<\/a> Brian Kelly<\/a>, LSU<\/a>\u2018s search for his replacement has already gone off the rails. That dysfunction led to Thursday\u2019s parting of ways with veteran athletic director Scott Woodward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while longtime deputy AD Verne Ausberry has been promoted on an interim basis<\/a> and will lead the coaching search, college football pundits expect the uncertainty within the Tigers administration \u2014 which is also currently without a school president<\/a> \u2014 will significantly impact LSU\u2019s ability to attract a high-profile head coaching candidate. That includes Ole Miss<\/a>\u2018 Lane Kiffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During Friday morning\u2019s Get Up, ESPN analyst and former Vanderbilt<\/a> quarterback Jordan Rodgers<\/a> proposed two off-the-radar candidates that could be great options as LSU\u2019s next head coach: Ohio State<\/a> offensive coordinator Brian Hartline<\/a> and first-year New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jordan Rodgers: \u2018Lane Kiffin is not leaving for that mess\u2019 at LSU<\/p>\n

\u201cLane Kiffin is not leaving for that mess, and I think a lot of other established coaches that may be (normally) be on the radar for LSU aren\u2019t either as of the events of the last couple of days. So I\u2019m going to give you two names that I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s talking about,\u201d Rodgers said Friday morning. \u201cBrian Hartline, the offensive coordinator at Ohio State, he has a track record of developing and recruiting elite wide receivers. And, as a play caller, look what he\u2019s done with a young quarterback in Julian Sayin<\/a> this year. I think he\u2019d be a great hire, off-the-radar a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd another one, and this might sound a little crazy: Kellen Moore, (who is currently) an hour and 15 minutes down the road. And if you\u2019re like, why would Kellen Moore want to go LSU? Well in a month or so, if (the Saints) are 2-10 or 2-12 and you find out Tyler Shough is not the guy, in the NFL you don\u2019t get more than two years to figure it out at that position,\u201d Rodgers continued, suggesting Moore could already see the writing on the wall in New Orleans. \u201cAnd success in the NFL doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t have success in college. He has got a great scheme, a great offensive mind, would immediately make an impact. And he has a chance to turn good players into great players with his scheme in college, something you can\u2019t really do in the NFL (because) it\u2019s much more star-driven. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s two names to maybe keep an eye on, maybe completely off the wall, but at LSU, they\u2019re going to have to figure something out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his first season as Ohio State\u2019s offensive play caller, Hartline has directed the Buckeyes to the Big Ten\u2019s fifth-ranked total offense, averaging 431.4 yards per game and the third-ranked passing offense behind the redshirt freshman Sayin, who leads all college football with an 80.0 completion percentage to go along with 19 touchdowns to three interceptions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Saints are currently 1-7 and in the mix for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft in Moore\u2019s first season as head coach. Could the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and offensive coordinator look to restart things in college? At least one ESPN pundit believes it\u2019s an option LSU should consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given all the chaos that\u2019s unfolded over the last week in Baton Rouge following Sunday\u2019s tumultuous firing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[136106,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-264779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-brian-hartline-05-glenoak","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}