'Force Them to Turn Down $15M': The 4 Calls LSU Will Make For Its Next Head Coach

Another week, another high-profile college football head coaching job has opened up. The newest opening, though, is one of the top jobs in the sport. 

LSU fired head coach Brian Kelly on Sunday night, ending his tenure in the midst of his fourth season following the Tigers' blowout loss to Texas A&M to drop to 5-3 on the season. While Kelly wasn't able to lead LSU to the College Football Playoff in any of his four seasons in Baton Rouge, Joel Klatt believes that the job is one of the three best in the sport. 

"This is the best job available. Period. In fact, I would put LSU in the top three jobs in all of college football. I firmly believe it’s in the top three, but I don’t think you can argue it’s not in the top five," Klatt said on the most recent episode of his podcast, "The Joel Klatt Show." "I think you could argue 30% of the top 10 jobs are open. But LSU is the cream of the crop. I think Texas and Ohio State are better jobs than LSU, but not by much."

The other two jobs that Klatt argued could be more high-profile than the LSU gig are Alabama and Georgia. However, Klatt believes that LSU has a financial advantage that those schools don't have. 

"LSU’s got a lot of resources, probably deeper resources than everyone realizes," Klatt said. "Probably No. 1 or 2 in resources. So, money won’t be a factor in this."

LSU is set to pay a hefty sum to move on from Kelly and take on another financial hit to hire a new head coach. Kelly's estimated $54 million buyout is the second-largest in college football history, and that's before taking into account the severance that must be paid to his coaching staff.

While Kelly wasn’t able to lead LSU to a national championship, the program’s recent history shows that success is