re: Lane>Jimbo

Jimbo is one of the 4 elite-elite recruiters in the game. The other 3 are Nick Saban, Kirby Smart, and Ryan Day. It's not a remotely realistic prospect, but half the point of stealing Jimbo would be keeping him away from our division mate located in one of our key recruiting areas. A&M as a program is a major, major problem for LSU long term.

Kiffin just isn't that good. He's not a guy that's going to ever get guys that Alabama, A&M, or Georgia actually want. Recruiting is the life blood of college football, and he just doesn't do it at a level that will ever let him not need to "do more with less". A common joke in the Georgia fanbase right now is "I don't know why the other teams don't just have their linebackers be DL/LBer/DB hybrids", and while Kirby Smart's scheme is very innovative, they're not wrong to point out that it really only works because the linebackers are athletic enough to cover the pass part of the RPO while being in position to make the R a short gain. I'm not sure if Kiffin has the stomach for it after how horrific his Raiders experience was, but he truly, truly should go to the NFL as either a HC or offensive coordinator. It fits him as a coach a lot better than college does.