Raymond had no intentions on leaving LSU, he left because Brian Kelly really didn’t want him because Kelly is a control freak & didn’t like the perception of Corey Raymond being an untouchable on his staff. Brian Kelly wants autonomous control & he wasn’t gonna have any coach on his staff that seemingly had more respect & power than he did, so he basically made him a sh*t offer that he had no choice but to turn down.
So, in order to save face in the state of Louisiana on the recruiting grounds BK had to go bring Frank Wilson back & name him the AHC/RB’s coach just so he could have some local Louisiana recruiters on staff in order to keep from losing them all to Bama, TAMU & UGA.
Corey Raymond has been offered jobs by Bama, UGA & TAMU over the years & has turned them all down, he was even offered the CB’s coach job by Sark & turned him down so Sark went & got Terry Joseph from Notre Dame.
Brian Kelly will try to bring Terry Joseph back to replace Raymond but his first cousin WR’s coach Mickey Joseph just left for Nebraska because he didn’t wanna be on Kelly’s staff, so we’ll see if Terry feels the same.
If he can’t get Terry Joseph back his best bet would be to go get LaMar Morgan from Vanderbilt, he’s a former Safety at ULL, coached at ULM, Houston & was on Napier staff’s at ULL for 2 years before he got hired at Vandy.