re: Feels like Ed is pushing all his chips in

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I'm telling ya he got with the blonde again last night was was feelin real good this morning

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She got a sister?

I hope we end up getting both but if either turn LSU down, O has opened himself up to more criticism.

I think it was unnecessary on his part to reveal those guys are who he wants. Why show your cards?

I think it would have been better to say something like this: "we have some guys coming in this week we are really excited about and who I believe would be a good fit. Hopefully we'll know more later this week."

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No, looks like he's coming to BR on Thursday.

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Well thats a good sign. Theres no reason to conduct an in person interview with covid ongoing unless its progressed to a pretty serious level of discussion.

I imagine this meeting is like when you're buying a home and pretty sure you want it, but want to start paying attention to other things like the neighbors, the traffic, etc. to help you finalize a decision. They'll probably drive around and look at homes this weekend. Let's just hope that the thugs behave themselves and chill with the murders for at least this weekend.

A good sign on Freeman is his wife supposed to be coming also. Seems like a positive sign to me that it’s serious interest at least.

Honestly, how hard is it for Ed to just say, "I thought X was my number one choice but when I interviewed Y, I was totally blown away and knew he was our guy."

I think people are making too big a deal over this.

I'm still ridin' the shrimp boat but O didn't do a good job this year. There were enough mitigating circumstances to warrant a one year pass, but still, O didn't do a good job this year.

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I think people are making too big a deal over this.

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I have to agree with this. And I think at this point you kinda have to push all your chips in. We’ve gotten to the point of Natty or bust around here. I mean whose feelings are you really gonna hurt, Derek Mason’s? He knows he ain’t first choice otherwise he’d of been hired 2 weeks ago. O knows he was the 3rd choice, happily accepted it, and won a Natty. I think we give these coach’s emotional sensitivity a little too much attention.

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By being so candid about Mangas/Peetz and Freeman this morning,

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you might be right.

But that is also an influence/negotiating tactic.

Just citing that it could be either. Could be both actually.

ETA: While acknowledging this wouldn't be a primary factor for Freeman himself, it could be a secondary one for the wife and family... Freeman is a practicing Catholic and his kids attend a private school. There's no shortage of either in S La. It was theorized that it played a minor role in not going to Lansing at the beginning of 2020 and why his name keeps coming up with Notre Dame. I'm just saying one of his past impediments might not exist regarding LSU.