Not bidding for high end talent

Yeah everyone on the recruiting board says it’s okay and we shouldn’t bid with the big dogs.

Recipe for disaster

I agree we need to recruit at a higher level but that wasn't the issue last night. Take a look at FSU recruiting since Norvell took over vs lsu. We had a top 5 class last year and FSU hasn't even sniffed the top 10. We were outcoached last night. There were no adjustments after half time either.

The other big killer is depth. We have some playmakers but they were all gassed by q4 and it showed last night. Kelly inherited a mess from O that he's still cleaning up but regardless of that we should have had better coaching last night.

Last year we won the west and beat bama after our loss to FSU. Not saying it will happen again this year but people saying everything about our team and coaching staff is shite and the season is over need to remember we're still a young team and Kelly hasn't even had a full recruiting cycle see the field yet.

I'm not gonna panic right now but last night was definitely concerning. I think many people on here had way too high of expectations after seeing baseball and WBB win championships last year and football winning the West. High expectations aren't a bad thing and Kelly should be getting us closer to that championship each year. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out and our recruiting ends up this year.

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Kelly better change his tune with that

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let me save you the suspense.... he won't, b/c he can't...

LSU, when you take the PnG glasses off, just simply doesn't have the same type of money that the top tier teams have... that's not a knock on LSU, it's just a fact of life... we have very few big money donors that can really put a ton of money out, and it sure as shite don't help when we have to keep asking those same donors for millions of dollars for buyouts to get rid of coaches every 3-4 years...

Fsu has done excellent in the portal.

They have a good coaching staff.

Players like verse,Fisk, Cantrell cypress, jaheim bell, and coleman.

They are a well coached team. Denbrock isn't a very good oc imo.

The difference last night were the portal players.

We can bid all we want, LSU is not matching Texas or Florida schools. They have wayyyyyyyy more money to pool from. Louisiana is a poor state

Most of the industrial companies in Louisiana are actually headquartered in Houston and full of Aggies

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Fsu has done excellent in the portal.

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For sure. Wasn't trying to disparage what they have done but we have done well in the portal also. I just feel like these posts about how we lost because of a lack of "elite recruiting" is off base because it's not like fsu was stacked. They had more depth and their playmakers showed up, ours didn't come back after half time. I see that as more of a coaching issue than anything. It's also criminal what the coaches did to Harold Perkins. That must be fixed asap. Keeping him a glorified qb spy all night was not optimizing his talent.

I'm not a big Denbrock fan either, but what concerns me most about the offense I saw last night was that Daniels still doesn't appear to be able to make the reads and be on the same page with his receivers. Watching him and Nabors last night you would have thought they never played football together. It doesn't look like the work was put in off the field for Daniels to get better chemistry with his receivers, and if it was, then that's even scarier. If Daniels and the receivers can't get on the same page we need to try Nuss in there.

And Bell and Cypress

We lost out on Cypress to FSU because we wouldn’t pay as much. He was the best corner on the field last night. They beat us for Fiske, Morlock, and Coleman as well. We have to be relentless in recruiting and we just aren’t

Bama a poor state like Louisiana and georgia not as rich as texas or texas am oil money but yet they out recruit them all so its bs if lsu money not good enough for nil
It should be the same for bummer and uga esp vs texas teams