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Thomas & BK missed on a lot of portal transfers and OL recruits……….
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:08 pm
I welcome Lane and the new GM to correct the issue! !
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Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:10 pm to WGM1990
quote:Care to add a few examples for discussions sake?
Thomas & BK missed on a lot of portal transfers and OL recruits………
Eta
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:19 pm to WGM1990
Portal Rank the last 4 years
2022 3
2023 5
2024 41
2025 1
2022 3
2023 5
2024 41
2025 1
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:34 pm to biggdogg
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Portal Rank the last 4 years
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2025 1
Do you REALLY think that was the best portal class in the nation?
This was buoyed by guys like Nic Anderson Patrick Payton and barion brown.
The DBs panned out and that’s it.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:38 pm to Adam Banks
Delane, haulcy were all Americans ha. Payton, pyburn were solid. Brown was okay, moore was good at c. Gooden was solid. Thompson was decent. Sharp, Anderson were whiffs.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:44 pm to tgdk11
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Delane, haulcy were all Americans ha
The DBs panned out like I said.
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Payton, pyburn were solid
They COMBINED for 30 tackles and 3 sacks.
COMBINED.
For what we paid that’s absolutely ridiculous.
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Thompson was decent
Decent is generous.
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Sharp, Anderson were whiffs.
Payton Sharp Anderson brown Sydir Mitchell all whiffs.
Pyburn was mediocre.
Start adding up the NIL money from this and you can see why Austen Thomas leaving is a blessing
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:56 pm to Adam Banks
quote:Pyburn would've had double digit sacks if he knew how to tackle
Pyburn was mediocre.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:56 pm to Adam Banks
Dline doesnt get many tackles in general. None of our dts or des had alot of tackles or sacks this year. Still had a top 20 defense, and those des were set starters on it. Some of portal is for depth as well. Not going to hit on every kid. Anderson was the big whiff for sure. Sharp was most disappointing for me. He played so many snaps, had so many chances blocking and receiving and was just terrible all around.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:58 pm to Adam Banks
Brown was not a whiff. He was every bit as good as advertised. How many times did we throw it deep to him? A guy with blazing speed. It wasn't his fault he didn't have more yards/tds with the Oline, QB, and play calling we had.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 12:59 pm to Adam Banks
Can you name all of the schools that had better transfer classes than LSU with no misses?
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:02 pm to LSBoosie
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Can you name all of the schools that had better transfer classes than LSU with no misses?
Om had better production
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:02 pm to KWL85
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How many times did we throw it deep to him? A guy with blazing speed. It wasn't his fault he didn't have more yards/tds with the Oline, QB, and play calling we had.
Sounds like a poor allocation of resources
Which was Austin Thomas’ job
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:03 pm to tgdk11
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pyburn were solid
No sir
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:05 pm to Adam Banks
Can you be more specific? I’m not familiar with their transfer class. Did they not miss on anybody?
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:05 pm to tgdk11
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des had alot of tackles or sacks this year.
D ends should have sacks.
Ours did not.
We paid for elite production.
We did not get it.
Poor use of resources.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:10 pm to biggdogg
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2022 3 2023 5 2024 41 2025 1
Hasn’t translated to any on field success worth noting.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:10 pm to LSBoosie
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Can you be more specific? I’m not familiar with their transfer class. Did they not miss on anybody?
They found a qb from D2 who dwarfed our 4 million dollar man.
They got a transfer D ends who more than doubled the combined sacks of pyburn and Payton
And they had a WR who had as many yards as our transfer wide receivers combined.
They also had a 1000 + yard rusher as a transfer.
Much better talent though less highly rated
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:18 pm to Adam Banks
The whiff in the off season was Kelly and Davis inability to develop offensive line. They were handed w very good center and adequate rg that everyone wanted in the country. The fact we didnt develop 3 other staters.. and 2 backups to support in avg levels, is why the team and offense had the season it had. We didnt develop the oline, and it made our offense this hitch, screen, incapable unit that couldn't call plays that go beyond 3 secs to develop. And we couldn't run bc of it, or wouldn't commit to it bc of that fear. Not every de is going to be a 10 sack guy, but they were decent starters in sec. Wes, keys, and Perkins against run heavy teams were the eye sores. Pyburn play declined when he hurt his shoulder. Payton was solid and had alot of good flashes, didnt get the sack #'s though. He was held a ton against vandy, atm, bama, but didnt get calls alot.
Oline was the downfall, and it fell on davis and Kelly.
When I think whiff i think the atm cb, Syracuse cb, etc year where every kid felt like a bust. Forced us into starting 3 star true fr in the sec in many spots.
Oline was the downfall, and it fell on davis and Kelly.
When I think whiff i think the atm cb, Syracuse cb, etc year where every kid felt like a bust. Forced us into starting 3 star true fr in the sec in many spots.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:24 pm to tgdk11
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Oline was the downfall, and it fell on davis and Kelly.
We had equal returning talent on the d line.
Many people called out the fact that we didn’t take an experienced tackle to shore up the Oline to make sure it would gel.
Even in a best case scenario where you hit on development of all 3 other spots the “general manager” and reported architect of the portal class watched all of 2024 and decided to go into the season with our number 1 back up across the entire O line to be dj Chester.
Yet people will always trumpet that “number 1 portal class”
Posted on 12/20/25 at 1:30 pm to tgdk11
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The fact we didnt develop 3 other staters.. and 2 backups to support in avg levels, is why the team and offense had the season it had
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When I think whiff i think the atm cb, Syracuse cb, etc year where every kid felt like a bust.
Oh.
See when I think of whiff I think paying $20 million dollars for a roster and not ensuring that we have an adequate o line is a poor allocation of resources and a sign we need to move on
We didn’t try to “see if the true freshman DTS and d ends from 2024 develop”
We went out and paid for guys who were supposed to be elite at that position
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 1:31 pm
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