I wouldn't hate it, but I would feel like it's a meh hire. The hate people have is understandable. He did get lazy with his recruiting and coaching towards the end of his time here while simultaneously asking for more money every year. It rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way.

Then he went to Florida where he didn't do anything impressive either. Is that because of Napier and the coaching staff there? I don't know. None of us do, but getting super excited he returns is a mystery to me. Maybe his time at Florida was a wake up call for him and he comes in and kills it again at lsu, but his past 4 years of coaching don't scream elite.

I trust that if Kelly is bringing him back then Frank, Baker, etc all feel he still has the juice left to get our CBs back to greatness. So I wouldn't hate the hire but I also don't understand the excitement around it given his product the past 4 years.

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Posted by NotaStarGazer

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Posted on 1/10/24 at 5:44 pm to Tiger Tracker

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I wouldn't hate it, but I would feel like it's a meh hire. The hate people have is understandable. He did get lazy with his recruiting and coaching towards the end of his time here while simultaneously asking for more money every year. It rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way.

Then he went to Florida where he didn't do anything impressive either.

THIS! I'll strike back to the people who claim they are just hating on Raymond. I used to like Raymond WHEN he recruited well and coached decently. Then, he tried to blackmail about more money or he would leave, his recruiting dropped off, etc. People complain about the LSU secondary right? Well who was the DB coach when the decline started and LSU was FORCED to play TR FR or last 2 seasons depend on the portal. Yeah, it was none other than Corey Raymond. And as you said, he did squat at Florida in 2 season.

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