re: Matt Zenitz on LSU dc search candidates

Kris Richards.... plz god no

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I don't know shite about Richards. How would y’all feel if he were picked?

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On one hand I, and I imagine all of us here, are getting a little wary of USCw pipelines/connections.

On the other hand, his strong suit [supposedly] is game planning and communication. Which was Aranda's strongest traits too. And, to me anyway, communication/instruction was the #1 source for the defensive failures this year. Confusion and bad pre-snap recognition is mostly a coaching issue. So it appears he addresses the overriding issues on hand.

Busch is gone and that would give us Richard AND Raymond for DBs. That's a helluva a pair.

Back to the negatives...
It seems Richard has two big ones that worries me. They stem from his time at the Cowboys...

1. Has a penchant for wanting or relying too much on physical measurables and not net results. Firstly, if you even lean this way in CFB you will forever struggle because you will never have "your players".

2. Doesn't really seem to adapt too much. He runs his 1-high and that's it. On the front 4+1 he's adaptable. But the back 5+1 he is not.

If you put 1 & 2 together it sounds an awful like Bo. Or even Chavis.

The idea that he might struggle with making use of your players strengths, as required in CFB, scares the hell out of me. That's where many NFL guys struggle. In the NFL you get the guys to run your system. In CFB you run the system your guys fit.

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We're getting Kris Richard aren't we?

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does he pronounce it Richard or Richard?

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We had better be a lot further along than in a search at this point.

Hell, Texas fired a coach that thought he was being retained and hired a home run in a matter of hours.

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There is absolutely no reason to be in a hurry. 2021 recruiting except for the transfer portal is all but over and I'd rather them do 3 each 5 hrs Q&A interviews with 5 different coaches than pick a hot name or even worse pick a name off of pedigree just to find out their system would work against Bill Parcell's NY Giants but not worth a shite against 2021 Alabama.

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does he pronounce it Richard or Richard?

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I believe right now it's Rich-urd. But if he takes job in South Louisiana, he becomes Ree-shard by default.

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Mods on 247 say that TBL does have legit sources

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he's a legend, what did he say other than an announcement will made this week?

He said he expected announcements this week, and DC to be a minority.

I don't think LSU needs a guy who has been fired twice in four years.

It's going to be Odom or Freeman.

I want Marcus Freeman as first choice and Barry Odom at second choice