re: How do you feel about CBK now - REAL Question!

I was always positive in kelly but not feel like I was under estimating his ability to turn thing around

It feels like we’ve actually come too far too fast

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I've not seen a team improve week-to-week like this LSU squad. With Miles or O, what you saw week one was more or less indicative of what you were going to see in week 1

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Definitely with les. With O, at least before 2020, the best thing he did was make improvements. It all just fell apart after January 2020.

For most who didn't like the hire, it was Ageism. They wanted a young coach closer to their own age.

They didn't look at CBK's coaching resume, starting from his earliest days, which proved that he knew how to coach winning football.

I was a big Aranda supporter. I knew the team needed discipline and felt Dave was the glue that held the 2019 team together. Kelly was a huge jerk when he first got to Notre Dame. He has mellowed a lot. I expected 6-6 0r 7-5. After the Florida State game I was thinking 5-7. He has far exceeded my expectations.

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His career arc was similar to Saban’s

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In some ways. Kelly got to a head coaching job much quicker, had NFL experience prior to being a head coach then got a P5 HC job as his second gig.

But similar in that they both were successful at a few HC jobs before moving to a premier destination.

Note that the majority of the "Saban era" and his dominance of college football came at his second premier coaching destination. LSU is BKs second premier coaching destination. Let the Kelly era begin!

There wasn't a more accomplished, realistic, candidate available. My preference was Riley simply because of the age difference, but there were no complaints with Kelly whatsoever. LSU's previous three HCs had come to the school with mild to zero success prior to taking the job. All three left with National Championships. Given Kelly's resume I felt the odds were strong he would be the 4th...just not right away.

I thought people were severely undervaluing LSU going into the season because most outside of Louisiana didn't realize just how bad a coaching job Orgeron did. I knew this team was still in the top 25% of talent in the league. Now they actually had someone who knew what he was doing running the show. I thought 8-4 was a reasonable prediction. But that was with a FSU win. I revised to 7-5 after that loss because I didn't think, with the schedule ahead, this team could do better than .500 in SEC play.

While I'm very surprised LSU will be heading to Atlanta in year 1, I'm not surprised, at all, Kelly is having great success. The guy has been a HC for 30 years and won everywhere he's been. Combine that with the only program in the last 30 years who has had 3 different HCs win championships and it was a very safe bet Kelly was going to do great at LSU.

In short, I feel the same as I did the day he was hired. The only surprise is how quickly the high level success has come.

I was hoping for a coach that was a little younger. But hey, what do I know….????

I always thought it was a solid hire and fully expected he would win at least one NC here. I never expected this kind of turn around though. Are we the greatest team ever? No. But that has far more to do with depth and being young at certain positions than anything else, but we are a team that on any given day can compete with and even beat any other team out there. That’s where having good coaching comes in.

Didn't really doubt could he be successful at LSU. Am very, very surprised it has been this quickly

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REAL Question!

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Ah, I see. I was about to ignore this, but I see this is a "real" question.