I was in Louisville when Krags was there

I followed those guys pretty closely but not nutso or anything.

That said, this is my two cents.

1)Petrino seemed to have really let that program get out of control. Sure, his teams were pretty decent but he'd sold his soul to get em there by taking stud players that most schools shied away from. This was talked about A LOT on sports radio(and I listened to a lot of sports radio). I can't recall how many players departed shortly after Krag's arrival but the numbers were pretty significant.

2)The defense already blew chunks pretty bad before Krags showed up. BUT, in his first year, they literally could stop NO ONE!. I mean, not even a little bit. I saw a few games in person and I swear to goodness, if the entire defensive backfield had been hurt and they just grabbed some young guys out of the stands to fill in, the opposing recievers could not have been MORE open than they already were. Hence, in most games, Louisville's offense went into instant "gotta pass" mode. They survived this a BIT because that year, they still had Brohm who was pretty decent.

3)In year 2, it was VERY obvious why Petrino had left as quick as he could. The MFer hadn't recruited AT ALL! The QBs left after Brohm were flat out embarrassing. So, while in year 1, Brohm was able to at least help save the incredibly bad defense, in year 2, there was no such help. You could've resurrected the Bear, put Saban in charge of the defense and Malzahn in charge of the Offense and that UL team would've STILL been VERY bad.

4)As we all know, an HC change can hurt recruiting the year it happens. When you coupled that the fall of for that class with the inevitable fall off that happened when recruits say the precipitous drop in performance in year 2, Krags was basically done before he got started.

I don't know if Krags will turn out as a good OC at LSU. What I think I can say with a pretty good amount of confidence is that his UL experience tells us more about Petrino than it does about Krags.