re: Sense of Urgency?

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If Brian Kelly is prohibited by NCAA "certification" rules from recruiting for nine days after being hired, I stand corrected. Please provide some evidence.

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It depends on the number of staff you have listed as able to recruit. LSU is clearly pushing current staff to keep recruiting, as most are out on the road doing that. Kelly is apparently splitting his time between assembling a staff, moving his family, and recruiting.

One would assume that he would nearly immediately have the capability to recruit in place of Orgeron as soon as Orgeron's contract was terminated which was the Sunday after his final game. However, it is possible that LSU felt they had the right guys on the road to hold the line on that and let Kelly spend more of his time recruiting staff instead of players. Who knows?

Bottom line, if you hire a guy like Kelly with his level of experience and success, and you're paying him as much as you're paying him, you need to trust him to manage this transition. He doesn't owe fans the appearance of recruiting the way they want him to. He owes the program leadership and wins.