re: Is anyone vilifying Matt Campbell like they are Lane? Dude is raping his previous team...

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Same thing with north Texas coach going to okie st and Franklin at VT

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Franklin didn't take many people, but Morris took the heart, soul, lungs, live, bones, blood, and muscle from North Texas.

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they hate lane and by extension LSU


I disagree. They would be practically worshipping him if he had left Ole Miss for Alabama.

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It's the perfect storm. They hated LSU and Kiffin before the combo.
It just became a giant meth-explosion-in-my-bama-trailer level of vitriol once we got married.

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Little bit exaggerated at 30+ when there is only 24 portal transfers and 20 are from ISU. But get you drift.

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I went to On3's transfer portal page for Penn State. Then looked only at who is committed. There may be some duplicates in there I guess if On3's website is shite. I did not look for duplicates, just counted the ISU->PSU list.

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lol what ?

He took their entire recruiting class

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Ohio, I'm thinking about kids that were already at Penn St on campus. Penn St could, and did, easily go in the portal. I don't consider that the same thing. I thought we were talking established players.

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I’m starting to really think that the national media just hates LSU. No exaggeration

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It has been this way for many years. It’s so bizarre. Just think back to a few years ago when they trashed CKM incessantly after we hired her. Not long before that they were all bleeding from their vaginas over the Will Wade accusations. Before that they were crying because LSU had the audacity to even consider moving on from Les Miles. frick em.

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I’m starting to really think that the national media just hates LSU. No exaggeration

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The media doesn't necessarily "hate LSU". It's just that (a) Kiffin willfully seeks attention and (b) they operate in a world of perpetual cognitive dissonance simply for the sake of creating the attention required for their jobs and profession to continue to exist.

Kiffin is not the only coach of a CFP bound team to accept a job with a new team BEFORE the start of the CFP. However, he's the only one who didn't coach his (now former) team in the CFP. Yet, the media willfully ignores, or at least glosses over, that was the decision of Ole Miss...not Kiffin or LSU. They also gloss over the fact that despite the OM offensive coaches CHOOSING to go with Kiffin to LSU, LSU and Kiffin have allow guys who are now LSU employees to continue coaching for a conference rival. LSU doesn't owe Ole Miss anything. Yet, they are making concessions to allow OM a chance to win a championship.

You can hate that a coach is forced to make a job decision before the season ends. But that is a byproduct of the calendar...not poor character of the coach. However, in the end the underlying reason for the media "anger" is because LSU (due to their success over the last 25 years) is perceived as a "bully" relative to schools like Ole Miss and Washington. It's ok for schools like Florida and UCLA to take Tulane's and JMU's coaches before the playoffs. Yet, mean old LSU shouldn't take little Ole Miss's coach away. Cheering for the underdog is always a more likable story. So the media ignores facts and their hypocrisy to maintain a "better story"