re: After the last coach Kiffin needs time to rebuild

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Indiana
Kentucky
UCLA

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What he said.

There is no "rebuilding". Every roster is year-to-year. In earlier eras, you would replace 20 or 25 scholarship players every year. Now, it is almost a wholesale turnover. You keep a few starters on each side of the ball, a few depth pieces move up and you then bring in 35 to 45 new players.

If you're going to argue that we need to spend more money and wait more time, than you don't understand things.

I get it - there might be a better QB out there for next year. How much will that cost? What if he gets hurt? Offensive tackles? We got 1 good one. He's going pro. So, you have to replace him, and find another good one, plus at least one depth tackle. Interior OL? Your best player (Moore) is in his 5th year, so he's a pro in 2027 as well. You probably need 5 guys there who are better than what you have (significantly better).

WRs? Probably okay there.

Defense? You're going to need several starters there and more depth. You need a more reliable kicker. You need a better punter.

LSU is almost back to needing at least 1 of everything and not in a good way.

This could still be a 7-5 football team and not do much better against the schedule next year.

#NextYearU

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Give coach Kiffin time to rebuild the program.

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that dog don't hunt anymore in today's CFB..

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Allow time to bring his recruits.

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he was given $40 million to bring in "his"recruits"... again, just another excuse

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Time for players to develop

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a majority of his roster are usually comprised of portal players, players that have some "development"... he's not fielding a team of a bunch of underclassment... again, seems like another excuse

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It’s a process especially after the last coach fumbled the program.

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again, welcome to the new era of CFB, where teams like fricking Indiana can win a national championship by turning around a roster in 1 season

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Give coach Kiffin time to rebuild the program. Allow time to bring his recruits.

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Such a bitch excuse

Yeah, it doesn’t work that way anymore, bro

You still gonna pass on points then go for it with your back on your own goal? Kiffin choked today

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$46M it costs to field a team these days. I don’t agree with it, but it’s the cost doing business. You seem to think that the spend should equate to instant success, but it’s not that transitive.

Adding a few players in the offseason as a means of roster maintenance is completely different than building an entire roster. For example, programs like Ohio State aren’t going to the portal for an entire roster each year, but they’re still spending close to the same amount to field a team. Last year they brought in 17 players from the portal and their roster costs around $50M. The difference is that Ryan Day and staff only have to plug in 17 guys into a system that’s already proven to be successful. Kiffin had to build a whole fricking roster.

Which do you think would be easier, plugging in a few new guys and bringing them up to speed on an established system, or having to teach a whole new system to an entire roster?

As for the #1 portal, Kiffin got the best group of guys available. That doesn’t mean he got elite talent.

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This such a great post but since this is the scoreboard it's going to get ignored

So did aTm and many others who are having far worse years. There’s not a team in the league with fewer than 2 losses.

This is the new norm, just like the NFL, all teams with good players, most capable of beating just about any team on a given date, and every team has losses.