Datbayoubengal

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Consulting is by definition paid work.

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Yeah but this is words from the guy who did the article, not from Kelly's mouth. It's more like a phone conversation.

Oh my God we are bringing back the juking RBs. Now we could end up with two of these guys that make people look silly in a phone booth. He has 4.4 speed too I can tell.

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He's a former wr transitioning to RB full time.

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So that's where the cutting ability comes from. Man he looks dangerously elusive. LSU hasn't had a great juking RB in a long while.

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Dude. He was a cheat when we got him from Michigan State. He didn't lure some of those Florida athletes up to East Lansing because of his personality. I recall talking to another LSU fan about this the week we hired him.

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People acting like they forgot Jimbo alluding to this shite just a couple years ago talking about his time at LSU with Saban.

Anybody taking up for him on this are hypocrites too. Dodge chargers and stacks of money for any good kid coming in as a freshman. Social media had this everywhere.

Yeah he has a cool pod. I think he just graduated or graduated last year from LSU. He gets some good sideline video at practice and during games. Several of his youtube shorts and tiktoks of LSU have gone viral (the one when Baker juked the DB at practice was almost everywhere).

It's an LSU sports podcast, but he talks about the Saints and Pelicans too.

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I hope they go after him for any money they may have paid him

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They already restructured his contract to pay him less money upfront. They aren't going to go after whatever they already paid him.

Unless he finds a loophole, he can't play the FBS this year.

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Her contract is through 2033. Fulfilling that contract (7 more years) is way more realistic than 3-5 in the absence of health issues or taking a major step back. She's only 64

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yep and female basketball is WAAAY less stressful than any male sports. She has enough money to spend, young women get into less trouble than young men, the hours are way less demanding than being a football coach, and she still has legit goals to reach at LSU. Becoming the Queen of the SEC ladies basketball, and winning at least another championship. Plus she's home.

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Get the lines right and they can make up for the back end

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I tend to disagree. Mascona was talking about how LSU's staff view pass rush vs CB coverage and they think because QBs aren't as accurate as NFL QBs, that a good CB unit takes a backseat to pass rush. That is a flawed thought process because not every year do you get easy opponents at QB. Last year we saw an outlier on terrible QB play in the conference. The best QB Ole Miss played last year was Gunner Stockton or Carson Beck. Stockton was decent at best and Beck racked up stats in a bad ACC.

Ole Miss's pass rush was worst last year than 2024 and 2023 however they had a better pass defense. You know why? Because of the QBs. Before 2025, Ole Miss's pass defenses from 2021 to 2024 were between the mid 50s and mid 80s in that span the SEC was loaded with good to heisman level QBs. Seriously go look at the QBs Ole Miss played just the last 2 years where they had way better pass rusher, but both pass defenses were in the 70s and 80s. I've always thought Ole Miss's CB play was bad outside of Trey Amos, and when Matt mentioned it, I 100% understood why. They don't prioritize it. That's why I'm glad we have Raymond.

I'll give you another point. Look at LSU's pass rush in 2022 compared to their pass defense. LSU was almost a top 30 pass defense while playing air raid Leach who's QB threw for 3900 yards and 35 TDs. Bryce Young's final year, a 6th year senior in Jordan Travis, a 5th year in Hendon Hooker who was having a heisman level season before injury. You could say KJ Jefferson had a similar season to Gunner Stockton's 2025 year and Stetson Bennett was a better version of Carson Beck from 2025. Even first year Jaxson Dart was average at worst. Now go check how good they were in getting to the QB in 2021 and compare it to the pass defense. You know what the difference was? LSU had a bad secondary in 2021, but the 2022 secondary. LSU had all these heavily experienced multi year starting CBs and safeties we got out of the portal. Bernard-Converse, Mehki Garner, Greg Brooks, Joe Foucha, added to guys like Jay Ward who was already here.

I will say it again. A good secondary can hide a mediocre or bad pass rush. We had a top 40 pass defense despite being middle of the road in sacks and pressure. We also played a much better group of QBs than Ole Miss did. A good pass rush can only hide a bad secondary if the QB isn't really good. This year there are many playmakers at QB in the SEC. Several are legit dual threat studs.

When you get a top tier pass defense with a top tier pass rush, you get the 2016 LSU defense (5th in country), or the 2010 and 2011 defenses.

There are plenty more highly capable CBs out there.

Let's forget about Tre White (1st rd injuries have killed his once extremely promising pro career), Jalen Collins ( 2nd rd who could have had a good career if not for PED use), Donte Jackson (2nd round and has surprisingly had 8 successful years as a full time starters starting 15 games last season), Greedy Williams (2nd rd), and Kristian Fulton (2nd rd and was a full time 4 year starter until last year and has injury problems) for a second.

BTW those all came from the 2015-2020 NFL drafts :lol:
Those are all 100% Corey Raymond CBs :lol:

From the 2022 draft to the 2026 draft, Corey Raymond had 2 top 6 overall first round picks at CB. How many other schools or DB coaches can you name with ONE top 6 draft pick at CB in the last 5 drafts let alone two?

You know who he also had in that 5 year span get drafted? A 3 star (close to 4 star, but still 3 star) CB in Cordale Flott. Flott went in the 3rd round, started 4 seasons, and signed a deal with the Titans for 15 mill a year (3 years), with 32 mill guaranteed in March.

There is no better DB coach out there. The fact that this dumbass agent is fighting for a couple hundred grand is insanely f-ing stupid to me. Yall do realize I LITERALLY only mentioned the CBs he coached? Did I talk about any of the safeties? Did I f-ing have to?

Like somebody else mentioned, Pickett will likely be a top 15-20 pick and Woodland could be a 2nd round pick after next season. Im sorry, but if you get an offer from Raymond AND it has really good money attached, why in the hell would you go anywhere else? He could literally be in a rotational role as a true freshman.

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I can't stand aTm but they are killing it in recruiting right now

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crazy part is only 3 of their top 10 are from Texas.

Howrver I will say that I am most surprised by USC. They must be promising these kids some crazy hollywood/after college, type of things. Last year and this year early on they are killing it in high school recruiting. I'm personally not confident in large recruiting classes staying longer than 2 years at the school.

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LSU still had Joe Sloan in charge of the offense. That was the much, MUCH, bigger problem. That offensive approach was awful and no QB, including a healthy Nussmeier would have had any real success in it. Listen to any former player who followed LSU. They will tell you that. If you listened to Hester and Flynn they, nicely, implied the offensive approach was horrible. After BK was ousted they were more direct in speaking about just how bad the design and play calling was. For example, one said "It might help if you have more than 1 and half running plays so the defense doesn't know exactly what it coming every time." Or, "does LSU (i.e. Sloan) know you are allowed to throw the ball over the middle of the field?" This isn't people on the Rant saying that. It's guys who played high level football for years.

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You know what pisses me off the most? A fully healthy Nuss and the OL we had in 2024 (which was mediocre at best) beats Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Vandy and Bama. Remember after going up by 17 in the first half, Bama only scored 3 points in the 2nd half. We actually were only down by 10 points vs Vandy going into the 4th quarter. Both teams stalled out with back to back 3 and outs in the fourth after we kicked that FG to get down to 7. Only on their final drive did they start moving the football again.

A healthy Nuss and half decent OL alone gets us to 11-1. Just like not having the worst defense in LSU history in 2023 gets us to 11-1.

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If you want to reduce BK's failure to one decision, it was the decision to let Denbrock walk in what was ultimately an effort to sign Underwood. BK didn't fully appreciate that recruiting now is really just contract negotiations. It DID NOT matter that LSU invested years and money in building the relationship with Underwood. In the end, the bigger contract offer won out.

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If LSU had paid Denbrock, the run game wouldn't have fallen off a cliff either. I showed these numerous times, but LSU's RBs as a unit averaged over 5 yards a carry in Denbrock's offense. Literally the same OL the very next year who had 2 years of starting together, only mustered 4.3 ypc from the RBs. Look at what Denbrock did his last year at Cincinnati and what he has done at Notre Dame too. Only 2 RBs from 2021 to 2025 at 3 different schools have averaged under 5 yards a carry for him. Both of those guys averaged 4.89 and 4.93 yards respectively. This is a double digit number of RBs too.

That's why I keep saying to not blame the blocking strictly on Brad Davis. The RBs had few problems running behind those lines in Denbrock's offenses.

It's crazy that both Miles and Kelly died by the OC sword.