While there are flashier names on the shortlists, and ones with head coaching experience, Sheppard is exactly what LSU needs right now. They need a workers mentality, an attitude, and a swagger. They need someone to rally behind, and it should be very easy with Sheppard. If you can make that fit work, the program should.

LSU fired football coach Brian Kelly earlier this week, and four days later, the man who did it, athletic director Scott Woodward, was gone, too.