re: Damonic Williams decision day. Looks like LSU is out due to NIL...

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Brian Kelly is in his 3rd year as the head coach at lsu. The DT position still being this big of an issue is 100% on him. If he hired a competent defensive staff from the beginning we wouldn’t be in this spot. If he went after DT harder in year 1 and 2 we wouldn’t be in this position. Maybe if it was first year or second year you could excuse him, but ultimately this does fall 100% on BK’s shoulders.


This is the truest take in all of this. People have been sounding the alarm about DT for 3 years. Kelly has chosen to ignore it until now, and now he can't address it because the cost doesn't align with his principles. Fine, good on him for that. But if he had addressed this for the last 3 years, he wouldn't have to face this decision. He will have to own this, and he will I am sure. Not like anything can happen to him, or should happen to him. Just a bummer situation is all.

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This is some next level stupidity. Even if you make Kelly fully responsible for the 2022 class, take the time and go back and look at the top DT prospects out of Louisiana in the past three years. There aren't many and of the ones that were there LSU got. So, LSU has had to go out of state looking for DTs and it is hard to pull those from other states. Kelly came in and immediately started pulling DT's from the portal because of the absolute bare cupboard that was left by Orgeron and the fact that Louisiana doesn't seem to be producing a ton of DT talent right now.