Saban - year 3 at LSU got blown out multiple times

Saban only had one year where he lost fewer than 3 games. In his fifth and final LSU lost 5. We are just a more entitled and impatient fan base now.

Nick Saban was 50 years old in 2002 in his third year of his second head coaching job.

Brian Kelly is 60 years old in his first year of his fifth head coaching job.

Maybe a better comparison would be Saban at Bama, not LSU.

Why do people keep comparing Kelly to Saban? Because if you want us to give him Saban expectations it’s going to get a lot worse on here.

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Auburn (away) 31-7
Bama (home) - 31-0

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This is true, but let's not forget LSU had won 5 in a row following the Va Tech loss and had blown out Florida when Matt Mauck got hurt. Marcus Randall then took over. They were ranked around #10 or so. Not sure if LSU would won those games but I'm confident in saying they would have been much closer.

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Saban - year 3 at LSU got blown out multiple times

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The very many functioning retards in our fanbase don’t want to hear this. They only log on to take out their own professional insecurities on the LSU coaches and players.

That’s the only explanation I have for all the people calling CBK a failure here already.

Anyone wanting to "write the story" of the Kelly tenure after 6 games is ridiculous. LSU was picked to finish 5th in the SEC West this year. That they lost to a good Tennessee team SHOULD not be all that surprising.

However, there are valid reasons for questions this season. First and foremost, the offense seems to be getting worse. That's a concern. Yes, the QB is having his issues. But in football it is NEVER the fault of just one guy. LSU's offensive approach has been largely predictable and risk averse. Outside of Daniels, LSU flat out can't run the ball. Of course, some of that is due to a young and frankly (at this point) marginally talented OL. But there has been no adjustment to the approach the running game. Hell, even after 6 games of no production last season Jake Peetz changed his approach. Kelly and Denbrock seem hell-bent they are going to make TEs an integral part of the offense...even though that is far and away the weakest position on the field. Why waste time with two TE sets when you, yourself, have said the TEs can't block. Maybe in the future the TE becomes a big part of the team. But not this year. Overall, though there doesn't seem to be any strong desire to revise what has been an anemic offensive approach. No, LSU isn't going to transform into Tennessee in one week. But clearly what they are doing isn't working

Ok Saban won the SEC in year 2 as well

Let’s not shift the narrative like a hypocrite next year, ok?

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Auburn (away) 31-7
Bama (home) - 31-0

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Both of these games were awful and still hard to look back upon.

Many forget Saban changed the mindset of this program. Yes, he got blown out multiple times in his 3rd season, but by his fourth season we didn't storm the field after a big win, nor did we use kickoff time as an excuse for poor play.

Kelly is in a similar situation. Ed O left a big mess. He needs to change the culture and expectations. His gameday coaching does leave a few questions, but this man is going to need a few years to get this program back.

Sure I'm not the first to point out in '02 that the loss to Va Tech was Mauck's first start and we had a buttload of drops.

But we got it together and blew UF out in the Swamp. Then Mauck got hurt.

Both the Auburn and Bama losses were without the starting QB.

If the point of this thread was to somehow excuse CBK's bad decision making against Saban's low spots, it should be mentioned that Saban was about 10 yrs younger then than CBK, had just won an SEC, and would go on to win about 4 natty's by the time he was CBK's present age.