People still emotional...

Whose job is it to coach and develop the defensive players?

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Whose job

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Doesn't matter if its me and you being coached up and get to play

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Kelly

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Oh how could our record holding HC be held accountable.

The buck stops with him. He has first say on who plays.

Kelly himself said it was poor scheming.

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Its not House at all.

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Bull.

fricking.

shite!!!

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Its not House at all.

Its players, mainly LBs and this is not new. Even Perk had a bad game but didnt quit. There were so many missed tackles and angles this game. Speights doesnt want to hit head on or risk aggrevating his injury. Penn is so gullible and iq is low. The DL is not a unit; no surprise.

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I agree, the talent level on defense isn't what we're used to at LSU, but it isn't truly bad...

- Perkins is a generational talent that was misused for the first part of the season, and is now being schemed out by opposing defenses.

- Penn has more potential than he's shown (or been allowed to show) this year.

- Maason Smith was a beast when he last played a full season, and his physical gifts haven't suddenly evaporated.

- The Weeks boys have shown enormous potential, but have seen little effective playing time all season.

- We lost Brooks, Zy, and Wingo, but let's be honest: they were playing better than the rest of the team, but it wasn't enough to make the defense even remotely competitive.

- And, for the record, even if LSU only has 3-stars left on their roster, they still aren't scrubs that would be lucky if they got offers from a Div-III school. They have some potential.

All of the defensive problems we've seen this year - ALL of them - are because of coaching (or lack thereof). With good (or even decent) coaching, the talent LSU has right now should play much better than they have so far.

I mean, for the sake of sanity, we had to go get Pete Jenkins to coach basic DL skills after several games were already played!! Shouldn't House, as the DC, have forcefully made the case to CBK for better coaching performance if his assistant and position coaches weren't getting it done?

Lack of adequate defensive coaching and player development is squarely on House. Failure to recognize the defensive problems and force the DC to make the needed changes is on Kelly.

Kelly whiffed on addressing his part of the problem in fall camp and at the start of the season. That's true, but what's also true is now it's his problem to clean up (it's obvious that House isn't up to the task, at least to me).

So, no, I disagree that it's all on the players. They aren't up our "normal" LSU standards, but they aren't scrubs. With decent coaching they would have been playing better. Lacking that, and any hope of coaching improving, it's time for CBK to make the change - and better sooner than later.

Just my opinion, y'all.

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Its not House at all.

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OK, Mrs. House. I got jokes too momma.


I can tell when you sit around the house, you literally sit AROUND the house!

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Its not House at all.

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You mean the main person whose sole responsibility at LSU is to coach the defense is not responsible for said defense's performance?

this post is embarrassing

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Its Kelly because he is playing upperclassmen instead of best player and not rotating front 7 enough. This I think is his philosophy which if it is will be detrimental to the program.

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Kelly should override House, but it is 100% him playing the guys he does. Explain the offense doing the exact opposite- starting 2 freshmen tackles and a TE last year, with 2 more freshmen rotating on the OL, 2 freshmen TEs rotating on offense and a freshman RB playing in front of 4 vets with a lot more experience this season?

This problem is on one side of the ball only. House doesn’t play younger guys unless he’s forced to. Kelly should force him to, but at this point, just play it out and move on in the offseason.