re: Before season started realistically how long did you think Lane needed

3 yrs

Immediately

I didn't think a natty was realistic outcome given the lack of depth on this roster. And that was before I saw Leavitt in this offense. Before I saw that the O line isn't great. I figured the defense would be good but they couldn't afford any injuries and the D line was going to have growing pains.

And look, Blake Baker has this rep as a defensive mastermind. I just haven't seen it. LSU bent over backwards to keep him. I don't know how you justify it. Kentucky ran the same play like 4 times in a row like a dude spamming on a video game. LSU was shocked every time.

On the 2pt try it seemed obvious that a QB run was coming. Spread them out and run it up the gut. Before the snap I knew it was coming and I knew it was over. LSU had nobody in the middle to account for the QB run.

And they have won how many championships? It is like reasoning with a wall.

I simply do no believe in the term "rebuild" in college sports today. With unlimited freedom of transfers and zero regulated NIL, you neither have to worry about quickly acquiring talent, nor can you use the excuse that you don't have the depth that other teams have, because with the portal and NIL, hardly any players who even think they are good enough to start are willing to sit behind someone else as depth. So every team, every year, is constantly having to replace huge portions of their roster.


We have no excuse because it's "year one" under Kiffin. It's a year to year sport now, so what is more time going to matter? How long did it take Indiana, of all programs, under a new coach? And that's what it comes down to. Coaching. Not who spends the most money, or who has had the most time. The coaching cream rises to the top.

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People believing Cignetti is the new norm are stupid.

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If you're Kentucky and you're expecting to make the playoffs year one, you could say this. But when you're a program like LSU and you hire a coach who's supposed to be elite, and you pay him 90 million dollars, and you spend 45 million, or whatever it was on the roster, you should absolutely expect to make a 12 team playoff.

How soft do we need to be as a fan base, if we can't expect a program that has won a championship with three different head coaches in the past 23 years, to make a 12 team playoff? That's a layup in comparison to how hard it used to be. But here we are, and we can't even beat Kentucky.

With the money in play, immediately. But Lane’s success revolves around the QB. We have a really good QB and a NC roster, but not a NC QB

2-3 years because I’m not retarded

With as much as everyone is paid, go win some damn games.

With a $150 million price tag? 2026