re: Imagine that! Yahoo calling out LSU & Kelly for saying he won’t buy players..

Dabo has been adamant about this at Clemson. Not necessarily with NIL, but he has only taken ONE player in from the portal ever.

I think it’s fine. You got your Deion’s of the world that believe in paying for players & complete roster turnover & then you’ve got your Dabo’s & BK’s who are more focused on building a culture/winning program.

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Then he shouldn’t have said anything at all. No one forced him to say that. He should know that saying something like that is going to grab people’s attention. I don’t understand why some of y’all can’t just admit that it was a dumb thing to say.

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Oh, shut the frick up. Are you like all the other sheep who just read that one sentence, but have zero context for it because you didn't listen to the complete answer? Or the entire interview? He made some really good points about locker room chemistry and what would it say to his bookend OTs who have been in the program developing, doing all the right things, will be going into their 3rd seasons of starting and being the pillars of the offensive line if not the entire offense. What does he tell Will Campbell, who a publication has as the #1 prospect for next year's draft if they brought in an above average DT from a much lesser conference and paid him twice as much as Will?

And BK clearly wasn't meaning we are not using NIL, that we're not paying guys at all. They're just not going to be stupid with it, and that will just be a piece of what they use to try to sell recruits to come to LSU. Do you want to come to LSU, get coached by the best coaches in America with incredible track records of developing guys into NFL players and high draft picks, have access to world-class facilities, strength and conditioning and nutrition programs, be part of a winning culture that puts on onus on developing players into leaders and good men who will make better husbands, fathers, and professionals in whatever field they want to pursue after football, do you want to compete for SEC and National Championships AND have a nice guaranteed NIL deal with an opportunity for more? No? Money is the deciding, if not ONLY factor? Then good luck to you.

LSU is using NIL--Moscona said they offered Barrow the exact amount Campbell is getting, and he's getting more than anybody on the team right now, something in the healthy 6 figures--it's just using it as a piece of a bigger selling point package. When he said "We're not buying players," he meant he wasn't interested in guys that didn't care about that other stuff, where money was the ONLY thing they were interested in. He doesn't think that's a good way to build a championship team or a championship program.

Those are not the guys he thinks he needs to build and sustain a championship program. And that was his goal when he came here. Not to sell his soul to try to win a NC in any one particular year for any 1 particular player at the sacrifice of team chemistry and the culture he's built and wants to maintain. He's about the process. If he builds the program of his vision, we'll be consistently in the playoff hunt, and if you're in the hunt every year, the stars will eventually align and you'll win an NC or 2 or 3.