Raise your hand if you thought coming into the season:

I believed everything other than the Kaleb Jackson bit.

We have a overrated head coach who just talks a good game… Boy if we didn’t get JD5 we would’ve been exposed much sooner.

I also thought for sure we'd hear McKinley's name way more often. I'm sure he's been solid, but I thought he was going to be a household name by now.

I had hopes that the oline would improve, but if anything, they've regressed. That makes zero sense to me. How do you get worse at something when you're gaining more experience?

Coaching sucks so fricking bad. They should have to pay huge fines for breach of contract.

Digging up my stuff, here's what I got fricking roasted for:

QB - Better, with a better backup - 50% right
RB - Better, healthy Durham - wrong
TE - Worse - correct and underutilized where we actually are better
WR - Worse - nailed it (drops, JFC)
OL - Trainwreck - nailed it

Line- Better depth, lower ceiling - Correct
LBs - Better, especially Perkins -Correct
Secondary - Better by default - Underestimated how good they would be


Edit: I had LSU at 8-4, and that seems to be looking like 7-5 to me now.

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Hilton

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Modern day Travonte Valentine. Once he figures it out, watch out! But he never did

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There are too many people that thought like you. Coming into the season, I remember everyday there was a new post about how a receiver was going to have a "breakout" year. Hilton, Brown, N. Anderson, A. Anderson, Parker, Green, Sharp, Thomas were all supposed to "breakout" this year. You even had people convinced that Hill, Watkins, and Billiot would have significant roles. People were delusional. I swear some people thought Nuss was going to throw for 8,000 yards and Durham would lead the conference in yards.

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I think it was completely reasonable as the receiver room has far more talent and depth than it did last year. What I and others admittedly didn't take into account was that, by trying to get everyone playing time (presumably as a result of the transfer portal to keep everyone satisfied) and maybe keeping our WRs fresh, it hasn't allowed anyone to get into a rhythm or have a great connection with Nuss which is why I think you're seeing a lot of dropped passes or throws where the communication is off.

Also, Nuss not being able to throw the ball downfield for the first 5 games didn't help at all.

Also, Anderson got hurt thanks to a hospital ball and Hilton has fallen into the same bad tendencies that he had last year.

It's a mess... a combination of coaches' mismanagement in-part due to transfer portal/NIL expectations, some players underperforming where there should've been improvement, and some plain-ole bad luck. At the end-of-the-day, it's on Kelly and the coaching staff who should be putting the 3/4 best guys on the field and sticking with them, regardless of transfer fears or pre-season promises.

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I think it was completely reasonable as the receiver room has far more talent and depth than it did last year.

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You thought it was reasonable that 8 receivers would have breakout years with 3 others getting significant playing time?

I called LSU’s final record 9 & 3. Still have a shot but looking less and less realistic.

This is the first time in decades that I put it all on coaching. Even at the tail end of the Les Miles era (my favorite football coach at LSU), I thought it had more to do with bad luck at the QB position. When Les had Mett, we had a 3,000 yd QB, a 1,000 yd RB, and two 1,000 yd receivers. He didn’t suddenly forget how to run an offense after that, he just had to scheme around what he had to work with at QB. And Coach O gets a free pass for going off the reservation after fielding the greatest team in college football history. I was neither excited nor disappointed with the BK hire, but 4 years in, I truly feel the problems are due to a poorly coached team.

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[Miles] didn’t suddenly forget how to run an offense after that, he just had to scheme around what he had to work with at QB

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He did, and it was worse than you remember, regardless of QB. We wasted so much offensive talent his last 5 or so years because of him, not in spite of him.

See the many toss-dives into the teeth of a Saban-led Alabama defense who was putting 8, sometimes 9 in the box, or refusing to use the middle of the field at all thanks to his own scar-tissue from 2008.