re: 247Sports grades LSU football’s coaching staff

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Kelly is not a one hit wonder like Napier.

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Napier is not even a one hit wonder unless you’re counting the 1 conference title they had and lost to shitty teams. I mean, you play like shite against Arky State and lost to a TERRIBLE UT team, damn. Good luck UF with this. Just because someone may “sound like Saban” doesn’t mean he is or will have his success.

Just ask Ole Miss Baseball fans about Mike Bianco. That guy walks, talks and absolutely adopted Bertman’s style by being a PLAYER and ASSISTANT for him for 6 seasons including 3 titles. Hell, he even played Bertman’s old position!
What has he won at Ole Miss?

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I promise you, and you can choose to believe me or not, that I am in no way "scared" of Brian Kelly at LSU. Brian Kelly will probably do well enough at LSU, but that's more a product of the situation than the coach. Brian Kelly seems like a bizarre fit, but he also seems like a good coach. I'll tell you this, coming off the Mullen regime, I'd have been beyond pissed if we hired Brian Kelly, because that's who he reminds me of.

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This viewpoint doesn’t even remotely make sense and you couldn’t be more off base projecting your previous coach’s failures onto someone else. Kelly and his staff at ND were consistently in the top 10-15 in recruiting at a school that values academics without giving student athletes the level of special assistance that big P5 programs do. He did better than the post-Holz average there in recruiting over a long period.

On the flip side, Mullen was always a below average recruiter, going back to his time at State. You guys knew what you were getting when you hired him. If you didn’t, then you are just ignorant. He demonstrated the exact same level of commitment to recruiting at UF that he did at State and produced only modestly better rankings.

We only have a small sample size, but Kelly came here as an outsider and immediately made the best hires possible to lock down LA recruiting. Recruiting was obviously a priority across the entire staff, which is absolutely nothing like what you guys had in old Dan. I’m just not sure where you can logically draw any legitimate comparisons here. These two guys have a ton of track record available and NONE of it is even remotely similar.

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Not trolling at all. Kelly has zero impressive wins at Notre Dame. (Clemson doesn't count, they were without Lawrence. And they smothered ND with a pillow in the rematch when he returned.) Notre Dame played an "independent" schedule, and got put into big games while he was there because it was Notre Dame. They never belonged. Both playoff games and the BCS championship game he got obliterated. Mullen winning at Mississippi State with the consistency he did was incredible.

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Mullen didn’t do anything special at State, no matter how much you continue to tell yourself he did. Also, expanding on Brian Kelly’s coaching career, did you forget that he took Cincinnati to two BCS Bowls? Did Mullen ever do that? In Mullen best year, the lost to Alabama, Ole Miss and Georgia Tech. But anyway man, why you continue to come on an LSU board and troll is beyond me. Go talk about that shite on a Florida board.

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LSU board

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It's a fair point. Except, y'all keep running your mouths about our coach, so I feel like I have a right to counter. You could just be happy with your guy, we're happy with ours, but y'all continue bringing up Nape's name like it's a part time job, so I'm gonna keep defending him.

You have not given a single logically response how you can rank Florida ahead of LSU.

I will fully give Florida credit they have done some outstanding moves on their staff but it's not better than LSU because your situation is completely unknown. It's objectively better from LSU simply because BK has already rebuilt 2 programs from the dust, he has been in the playoffs, and he has a NC appearance. He had handicaps at Notre Dame. ND fans will tell you he's not their best coach but what they don't understand is this isn't 40 years ago. It's a different era than ever and those handicaps really hold ND down. Napier hasn't even sniffed anything close to that.

I like Napier btw, I think he'll be a great coach for you guys but right now these rankings are just flexing their dick trying to be like "I told you so" and when they're wrong, let it disappear. Right now on paper LSU is the A+ especially how we've hit the portal and made backup hires for the admin behind the coaching staff. Florida has made similar great moves here but Napier puts you under LSU in itself because he's unproven.

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Billy Napier and his staff will recruit circles around Brian Kelly

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what? Lol. Frank Wilson, Cain, polian laugh their balls off at this lol

And there's also that element of wanting people to "acknowledge how good of a job we did with our hires". We both did well. We both got guys who will probably get the job done, but at the same time have things to be concerned about. We don't have to talk trash about other schools hires to feel good about ours.

The fact that USC shite canned Helton not even halfway through the season, he then gets hired by Georgia Southern, and subsequently gets an -A shows how much of a joke this article is.

USC and LSU have assembled the best staffs top to bottom. Oklahoma also did a very nice job.

Napier is a VSO - "Very shiny object"

completely unproven, but lots of upside and people love him

perfect for media to rally around

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Their resumes are not comparable.

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LOL, K.

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has a staff that isn’t close to what BK brought in as far as recruiting.

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