re: UPDATE:MooU Corner Decamarion Richardson Visiting all weekend

in an area of need you should be ok going over your budget

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What a stupid fricking take

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How so? It is a money thing, and people that complain but dont contribute are just asking for others to spend their money where they wont spend theirs.

Guess we have no choice but to wait and see at this point. At least Sherman says relax and he is closer to the situation than any of us

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Ole miss has a ton of rich donors and more importantly they are much better organized to raise funds within the program and direct then to the right places. We need to step the frick up.

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Don't agree. Ole Miss is not a school that can recruit elite talent out of HS, unless the kid is a MS kid. That is just the reality. 5***** or high 4**** kids out of HS are not typically going to go to rural MS out of HS if they are from large cities from other parts of the US, just not. So Ole Miss does not have tons of NIL resources tied up to their recruits out of HS (except maybe in-state MS kids).

So what Ole Miss can do is use the portal and target NIL funds to guys to win in the short term. Ole Miss has Dart back next year, in my view in the new 16 team SEC, he is among the top 4 SEC QB's next year with Ewers at Texas, Milroe at Bama and Beck at UGA. Judkins is the top RB next year, the WR group with Harris who portaled in to Ole Miss from LA-Tech last year and Wells from SCAR coming int this year gives Dart 2 legit SEC WR's

On Defense, they are taking in 2 edge guys with SEC experience from UF and TENN, 2 Safeties, 1 from TENN and 1 from OU and the LB from Arkansas (Paul). That is 5 pencil in starters next year.

Lane is going all in next year to win big it looks like, they have a manageable schedule (no Bama, UGA at home and OU at Home).

Right now they look like a top 12 CFP team next year. Having a 5th year QB in Dart with all the starts he has, and weapons an Lane is playcaller with improved Defense, they are going to hard to handle.

42 of LSU's 80 scholarship players per 247 2023 talent composite are 4**** or better. While LSU has no 5***** in this 2024 class, 18 are 4****. So LSU's roster next year will have in the area of 50-55 4**** or better and actually be at 85 for the first time in BK's tenure (72 in 2022 and again 80 this year).

No doubt at all LSU on3, twitter, and TD’s recruiting board are all on melt about the same thing

The defense was NOT good as the stats prove but it is getting to be old, tired, and UTTER FICTION to call the LSU defense the WORST defense in LSU history. I will point you to the 2nd tenure of Bo Pelini who lasted one year at LSU because his defenses gave up bust after bust. As proof, this season LSU gave up 409 yards per game. In 2020 during the Pelini debacle, LSU gave up 492 yards per game. NOT remotely close to the worst defense in LSU history. I didn't check Tepper's defense but the spread wasn't around then so probably not up to 409 yards/game standard.

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Because what is the threshold? If I donate 5 bucks, may I now complain?

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You can complain 5 bucks worth.

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I have LITERALLY paid over $100,000 to TAF at this point. If that can't win a recruiting battle, then maybe the program is just fricked

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Great, you paid for entertainment that you received. I am not sure of your point.

Great post! Agree with almost all of it. BTW, the word on Chestnut also was he "gambled a lot". Usually, that is the case where the guy gets beat too much for whatever reason (may be size as you stated) and has to "guess". NOT good! As far as the DT positions, I was not surprised after I saw Maason Smith was not up to his TR FR form and Mingo had an upper body injury that late in the season Kelly finally owned up too. He said he had been trying to play through it...which means he shouldn't have been out there. As I've said, Jordan Jefferson was the best DL LSU had and PFF agreed grading him out the highest for the season.

HOW DID WE MISUSE PERKINS? (screaming because I didn't press the Caps lock key)

2020 is an entirely different circumstance than this year. It was a Covid year with limited practice time, and Orgeron insisting on shifting to a 4 man front with 3-man front talent on the team. It is honestly what ruined that year.

Add in that they got those stats against 10 SEC games and had tons of players opting out and it looks worse. LSU gave up 439.7 ypg this year vs P5 teams, and if you remove just the MSU game since they were an utter disaster, they gave up 466 ypg.

Further, as bad as that season was, they never gave up 700+ yards to anyone.



In the end, there was legit reasons for LSU to look that bad in 2020 given the COVID issues. 2023? There was nothing anywhere near that.