re: Have to respect the great job Kelly is doing in the transfer portal

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There’s a big fricking difference between 39 and 77 I think . Even a big difference between 52 and 39. Answer me this , at what point does the performance of the team fall on Kelly ? 2027 ? 28 ? I’m a tiger fan , I hope I’m wrong but I think we have plateaued and will stay there with this coach . If we continue at this pace you will feel the same , just a couple years later . Not everyone is on the same wavelength.

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Kelly is the coach, so it all falls on him. But fricking hell- he hasn’t played .500 ball like your golden god did on his way out the door. You can make up all the excuses and say all of the bullshite you want, but 9-3 in the regular season in the SEC isn’t the disaster you and some others here really want to make it out to be.

If we go 7-5 this season I won’t be happy with Kelly, but that hasn’t happened, so I’m not going to pre-melt like some of you already are. I also won’t disregard the progress we already see under the new defensive staff, the impact that this year’s freshmen are making, and the top 3 class that’s incoming. I believe transitioning to a primary focus on HS recruiting is the right move, even if there’s a little pain involved in the short term. If the results come starting next yearly, and especially in 25 and 25 the way things are lining up with recruiting, then I’m good.

As long as the trends we see in the current and future classes hold, there’s no reason to expect poorer performance with a higher overall talent level and more depth. I don’t understand where your narrative of imminent certain decline comes from.

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The LSU secondary is still as weak as I’ve seen it, at least in the last 20 years.

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20? More like ever.

You know what was a bad, bad LSU football team? 1992. My evidence is the number of players drafted in 1993, which was 0. Before that you would have to go back to 1942 to find an NFL draft without an LSU Tiger. There were only 2 All SEC selections from the 1992 squad: Kevin Mawae and Bo Davis. (On, and by mere coincidence, the only player drafted right before the 1992 season? Corey Raymond.)

You know who played DB on that team?

Anthony Marshall, Derriel McCorvey, Rodney Young, Carlton Buckels, Gary Pegues, among others.

Now, that's not a lights out crew (except Marshall), but objectively better than the guys we're sending out in 2024.

I'm not saying the current crew is utterly bereft of talent (although I have been critical). I'm saying they're not playing well, individually, or as a unit, outside of occasional flashes. There is little hope until there is a whole new group of guys playing there OR the light comes on for the younger guys.

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Chestnut could have been a really solid Nickle. The problem was House throwing him outside against a team with two WRs with 6+” on him.

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Thsts a fair point I actually thot house should’ve moved him to nickel after the fsu game. He clearly didn’t have the speed and athleticism to play outside in the sec. Even back at Syracuse now they moved him to safety so it’s insane house kept him as a boundary corner

F. ON D

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You don’t build it through the portal! There is plenty of talent in La to win nattys.

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Back in the day, I would totally agree with you, but not in today's college football. The portal and NIL have changed college football forever and the times when a team could survive by just recruiting in-state players is no longer possible. With the amount of money being tossed around, the elite players are going to go to the highest bidder and that's just being real.

These days you have to use to portal to stay competitive or you can become like Clemson, a team that will never play for another NC as long as Dabo refuses to use the portal to help his team. Like it or not, that's the reality of the situation.