re: Analysts being let go

J we know why he didn’t interview Pelini.

Out of all the hires, he only didn’t interview one of them.

Pelini. Who happened to be an old friend of his boss. .

Come on this is obvious what happened here. Why would he need to interview Pelini when it was the guy his boss pushed for him to hire?? Maybe have been even more than a “push”.

He said at the high school coaches meeting that we had way too many analysts. I don't think he will replace all. Maybe some but not the same numbers.

quote:

---

I’ve been thinking this for a long time. Better yet not just trolling but fans of other schools setting up accounts posing as a LSU fan and posting really negative comments about our players, coaches, etc. I’m friends with a coach at Spanish Fort High here in Alabama. This coach told me an Alabama assistant coach noted the best place to send a recruit we both want is to this website particularly after a loss. Said it was one of the best negative recruiting tools Alabama has against us.

---

now do the SEC RANT

That’s such a crock of shite boom. Do we really think Scott pushed Bo on him following that season? That’s Ponamsky camp spin

O spent that whole offseason shitting on Dave and saying he’s getting back to the D he’s been wanting to run all along. Didn’t sound like a man that had a hire pushed on him. He hired Bo because of his familiarity with him and his D and bypassed the whole interview process

quote:

---

Right it’s not like he had this stellar hiring resume and Bo was the outlier.

Brady was the outlier gut hire that worked

---

Brady was an Ensiminger "find" and evaluation.

So it was neither gut, nor was it lacking a form of an interview (Ensminger had conversations with him).

Yeah, O’s analysts after 2019 were pretty mediocre just milking a paycheck. I like what BK is doing in bringing in his people everywhere.

quote:

---

He said at the high school coaches meeting that we had way too many analysts. I don't think he will replace all. Maybe some but not the same numbers.

---

Is this legit? That’s kind of surprising if so, and I don’t really know what to think about it. I’m not sure I understand the downside of having “too many” analysts as long as the administration is willing to give him the salary pool.

quote:

---

There's such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen especially if some are just standing around.

---

If they’re standing around, sure. At the same time I would think at a major college football program there’s always room for more work to be done. Between advanced scouting of opponents, self-scouting, recruiting evaluations (especially with the number of transfers, where they can actually get college game film on a lot of these guys) etc. it just seems to me like there’s enough to go around. Plus I didn’t think we had that many analysts (relative to other top tier programs) to begin with.

But as you said, they do need to actually be providing value. At the end of the day Brian Kelly knows more about how to run a football program than me so I guess he probably knows what’s he’s doing.

Again with O, he heard Saban had a lot of analysts, so O attempted to mimic it by going out and hiring a bunch of analysts too. But like most O/Derek productions they lack any real understanding of what they’re doing so the execution and implementation was lacking