re: Last couple of months have been extremely meh on the recruiting trail

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Now we have no DT or significant Dline recruiting and have lost several battles to Texas schools. These things matter and will absolutely determine how good we are in the next few years. And news flash, recruiting isn’t great

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DL recruiting absolutely needs to pick up but it’s kind of hard when you’re replacing the DL coach every year and the one you have now had to leave for medical reasons. I suspect we will scour the portal for 2-3 top interior DL who will be sold on the idea of immediate playing time at LSU. It’s not ideal, but Mekhi Wingo, Jordan Jefferson, and Jalen Lee were all portal guys and all have contributed/been really good.

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Notre Dame fans warned us that he would recruit, "Good not, great". I am okay with it if this year is an outlier and he continues to kill the transfer portal.

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Were you here with the little short guy was hired? Everyone from Michigan State said, he was this and that. His staff, not one coach came with him, the entire staff stayed, but was later fired. I can go down the list of LSU Head Coaching hires over the years, every fan base tried to tell us what a mistake we’d made. Think about where every previous LSU Head Coach came from. Michigan State, Vandy, Ok. St. and O was looking for a job. Michigan St. it’s a cluster right now, Vandy’s trying to get to .500, Ok. St. well it’s been a rough one as of late, last season they were one game above .500.

Yep you need to listen to an opposing fan base to get the truth. You wonder if he’s that bad, why did they keep Kelly 11 years? ND has run through 5 coaches since they last won a NC in 1988. Coaches don’t leave ND, Kelly did.

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I suspect we will scour the portal for 2-3 top interior DL who will be sold on the idea of immediate playing time at LSU. It’s not ideal, but Mekhi Wingo, Jordan Jefferson, and Jalen Lee were all portal guys and all have contributed/been really good

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We have 17 DL listed on the roster. Only one Sr that has played meaningful minutes, Jordan Jefferson. The majority of the DL on the roster is made up of Freshmen and Sophomores. Just what Kelly wants, guys in the system for years.

2012 Les Miles 10–3[n 6] 6–2[n 6] T–2nd (Western) L Chick-fil-A 12 13
2013 Les Miles 10–3[n 6] 5–3[n 6] 3rd (Western) W Outback 14 14
2014 Les Miles 8–5[n 6] 4–4[n 6] T–4th (Western) L Music City
2015 Les Miles 9–3[n 6] 5–3[n 6] T–3rd (Western) W Texas 17 16
2016 Les Miles[n 7] 8–4[n 7] 5–3[n 7] T–2nd (Western) W Citrus 14 13
Ed Orgeron (Southeastern Conference) (2016–2021)
2017 Ed Orgeron 9–4 6–2 3rd (Western) L Citrus 18 18
2018 Ed Orgeron 10–3 5–3 T–2nd (Western) W Fiesta† 7 6
2019 Ed Orgeron 15–0 8–0 1st (Western) W Peach†, W CFP NCG† 1 1
2020 Ed Orgeron 5–5 5–5 4th (Western)
2021 Ed Orgeron[n 8] 6–7[n 8] 3–5 T–6th (Western) L Texas Bowl
Brian Kelly (Southeastern Conference) (2022–present)
2022 Brian Kelly 10–4 6–2 T–1st (Western

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we are headed for mediocrity.

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Since Bama "restored order" on 1/9/12.
We are there. Kelly was brought in to get us out of it. Facts are the pill that is sometimes the hardest to swallow yet you must anyway. They can't be refuted only excused by those attempting to spin a narrative.

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You have to think Wingo, Maason Smith, and Jefferson are all gone after this year. That leaves you with a lot of questions for next year. They have no choice but to hit the portal for DT’s.

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and where did two of those guys come from......

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You have to think Wingo, Maason Smith, and Jefferson are all gone after this year.

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Wingo doesn’t fit the profile of an early entrant and Smith might need the whole year to get right. He’s already missed a full season.

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Wingo doesn’t fit the profile of an early entrant and Smith might need the whole year to get right. He’s already missed a full season.

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I doubt either of them will get very high draft grades right now. Its more likely they are both here next year than both leave.

I’d love both to come back but I saw a mock draft recently that had both guys as late 1st/early 2nd round picks. Maybe NIL can convince them to stay another year.

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Our biggest weakness this year is the secondary and it wasn’t addressed with that inflated recruiting class. It’s the sole reason why we’re #12 and not still in the top 5.

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Bro, are you seriously trying to suggest that the reason we didn't beat FSU was because we didn't have a couple of true freshmen playing in their first college game against one of the best receiver rooms in the country? Desmond Ricks was going to swing that game by 25 points?