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

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2-3 years because I’m not retarded

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The world doesn't work like this anymore. There will be 40 new players in 2027. 40 new players in 2028.

Sure, we don't have to buy out Kelly and his staff every year, but you will see some staff turnover as well.

Every year is a new year. There is no "build" a program, anymore. FFS that's why heaven and earth were moved to hire The Portal King(tm).

Expectation was 10-2 or 9-3. The big question for me coming into the season was on O line and LB depth and both have proven to be out glaring issues, aside from Baker continuing to call bad prevent defense. My hope was that Leavitt would be good enough to mask an O line issue and Whit would stay healthy.

I don't really follow recruiting anymore, but O line needs to be the first thing addressed, paying players like royal is a waste of money if you can't run at will or pass protect.

2 to 3 years with developing HS and portal transfers.
He also needed to not have the SEC screwing him at ole Miss with the music until the snap and at UK on multiple occasions.
He needs the FBI to dig into Sankey and the head of officials.
Wait until basketball season.
They won do anything with Baseball bc LSU would then own the conference for the next 20 years.
Some of you need to face the reality that at every game in every sport LSU will be facing officiating challenges and the conference will want to find them to recoup the money that Tony Clayton is going to get out of it.

Sankey needs firing.
Bobbly Hill and his university president will pay as well.
Let 1 golf ball be thrown and Hill will not coach that game. He would be arrested for inciting violence.
LSU needs to convince the FBI to step in on game fixing. Cause the conference to go back 20 years and look for patterns then dig into email, text messages and voicemail by Slive, Sankey and both Head of officials.
That’s the only way the conference will be moved and retribution for the blatant fixing of college football will happen.
I do not gamble, but if I did I would be pushing hard for a federal investigation into the conference.
One could have a 3 hr documentary with no calls and calls that were incorrectly held or reversed.
One can’t use the “human element” when it has been this blatant.
They fixed the Auburn 2006 game to try to allow Alabama win the conference and then they didn’t win it. Tried to force e Newton out but that didn’t work.

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That was a different era of football.

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What was different about having more talent (way more) than UAB and Louisiana-Monroe, and yet losing to them? (Both were in Saban’s first year, BTW, I had that wrong).

I get that you can rebuild talent faster now, but culture is another matter. Saban could not rebuild the culture on his teams in his first year. In both cases - Bama and LSU - his teams, with grossly superior talent, lost to piss arse teams.

To beat Kentucky? Who also has a new coach? 0 years.

Year 2 remains the expectation.

Year 1 was always going to be tough, a lot of holes to fill.

I didn’t expect UK to pants Blake Baker but I figured we would be 9-3

Even in a free transfer era, rebuilding a team with 50 plus transfers is going to be a challenge.

Cig did take Indiana to the playoffs in year 1 but they played what 1 or 2 real teams and lost both, also a lot of their transfers were his own former players so that’s slightly different.

Sec schedule, sec road games, a lot of holes to fill.

Year 2 and 3 will be the story

Don’t listen to all these fart huffers. Year 1 is always a building year.

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Year 2 remains the expectation.

Year 1 was always going to be tough, a lot of holes to fill.

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The rub there is Kentucky who was worse than we were last year and is well.....still Kentucky - beat us in his year one. Seems to me one coach did it better than the other one? 100% comparable.