re: Herbstreit on Finebaum

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Nutt's team will decline in talent, look how well he's recruiting now. He makes excuses but simply put Orgeron did a much better job recruiting under the same conditions.

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This is what I've been saying. He inherited talent. He isn't as good at recruiting as Ogeron. His teams will get up for the big games and play hard, but stupid play calling will hamper them at times(see 2006 lsu and 2007 tenn. games)..........hell, they may decline a bit as early as next year. Don't they lose Hardy,Oher and Peria Jerry?If Tillman leaves early that's another blow.
ETA: Hardy's a JR. but I doubt he'll be back.

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The guy is on an Alabama radio show. If he were on in BR, he'd say something totally different.

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He said the EXACT same thing on Gameday last weekend. Where was that held? Oklahoma I think.

Maybe he really believes it...

The man is entitled to his opinion. But if he truly believes Ole Miss and Arkansas will field better football teams over the next 2-3 years (or longer for that matter), well, I couldn't disagree more. LSU has far too many advantages over them both. I don't even think most rational Ole Miss fans think they will surpass LSU beyond this year....If anything LSU's stock coming off a 7-5 season is low and I woudl expect it to go up (if we're staying with his analogy).

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I agree somewhat with Condon when he said before the Arkansas game that if we lose that one (after the uninspired performance against Ole Miss) there are more problems within the walls of the program than we realize.

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That is ridiculous. We scored 30 points on an SEC opponent with a 3rd string true freshman QB (who should have been 4th string). The only problem with that game was horrible defense, and everyone with a pair of eyes realized that before we went to Arkansas.

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There is no discipline or fear of consequences from the players and that concerns me. No other explanation for that 5000 penalty drive in the Arkansas game

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Yeah, right. Because horrible defensive coaching couldn't POSSIBLY account for a horrible performance by the DEFENSE.

This team has had three problems this year: one enormous (horrible defensive coaching), one major (inexperienced QB struggles) and one minor (poor kickoffs).

The kickoffs were a tad troubling, but nothing new and certainly not a priority given the othe two problems.

The QB situation was unfortunate, but was clearly a possibility once RP was kicked off (though obviously not a certainty, as so many wanted to insist). Still, a successful season could have been salvaged were this the extent of our problems.

The defensive coaching doomed us to a disappointing season. Giving up 31 points to Troy, Ole Miss and Arkansas to finish out the season, after giving up 50 plus twice already and too many to every other team with a pulse on offense, is almost insurmountable. This was the heart and soul of our struggles this season, and with only one possible exception (Bama) was singularly responsible for all our losses.

The only one of these problems that anyone outside the program could even conceivably have not realized going into the Arkansas game was the kickoff problem. And that would only be because they were too distracted noticing the much larger problems. Condon is 100% wrong about his conclusion. The Arkansas game indicated absolutely nothing that every LSU fan had not already realized: we have tons of talent on both sides of the ball (young and old), our QBs are talented but inexperienced, and our defensive coaching sucks.

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Herbstreit on Finebaum
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His opinion. That is all.

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our defensive coaching sucks.

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That's the truth.

In addition, there was no excuse for the way that team layed down against Ole Miss and even against us. It is like they just turned it in w/ a few games left in the season.

I don't think that is all coaching, those players need to have more pride than that. They lost to 2 teams w/ inferior talent, and Ole Piss's coach is not a better coach than Miles.

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What about felix jones? Hope you enjoy getting your arse kicked by that coach you ran off.

I hope he text messages your girl too.

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What about Felix Jones. Simply put, OU wasn't interested in Felix, neither was OSU (both schools were pursuing other running backs). Bobby Allen is the coach that closed that deal and got Felix to come to AR.

Where is Bobby coaching now, well he was retained by Petrino b/c he is a good recruiter (possibly b/c he has a son in HS that is a pretty good QB too).

So, back to your point, even if I gave you Felix, what other great players has Hootie recruited from outside of AR? Huh?

Come on pal, produce some names.