re: Johnny Jones press conference tomorrow at 2:15 pm (Update in OP)

nice

"Hey Coach JJones, what will it be like to play next year in an empty PMAC"????.....

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He will say literally nothing with any substance.

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The only way that is true is if he says "nothing of any substance." That's what the word "literally" just did to your sentence.

Joe Alleva will be attending the press conference today. Hope he is grilled by the media.

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I'd be more than happy to represent TD and ask all of the rant's questions as well.

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A few more for you.

Johnny, you are known as more of a "recruiter" than an X's and O's guy, but yet your recruiting class for the next year is outside the top 50. Your thoughts?

Johnny, was the administration afraid LSU would not receive a post season bid at all, and choose instead to decline an invite to save face?

Johnny, please describe, in detail, how you discipline players who don't "buy in"?

Johnny, was the sports psych experiment as big of a failure as it appeared to be?

Johnny, at what point during this season do you feel you lost this time? Or did you ever have them to begin with?

Johnny, does your wife spank your kids for you?

Johnny, have you considered bringing in previously unheard of Eastern European prospects to bolster your roster?

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Were you able to get a media pass?

Johnny, have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Johnny, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

Johnny, do you like movies with gladiators?

I've yet to hear one, single, logical reason why LSU should retain Jones as Head Coach.

"There's a budget crisis?" This seems to be the biggest "reason" for not making a change. My response to that is, so LSU is magically going to be flush with cash next year that they somehow don't have this year? Jones is the 2nd lowest paid coach in the league. Do you really save all that much waiting until next season to do the inevitable? And if they do, are they going to spend it next year? Especially when the football coach is ONE loss away from the fanbase calling for his head again. Newsflash, it's going to cost a lot more to replace Miles!

"Well, he should get one more year with a short leash." Why? Does anyone expect him to do next year what he couldn't do this year and barely did last year with much more talented rosters? Again, why wait for the inevitable to happen?

"Did you see what Johnson did at LSU? Jones is recruting well!" True, Jones has done a better job than Johnson. But with all that talent, the ultimate results are virtually the same. Hell, you could argue Trent did more in 4 years by at least winning the SEC and one NCAAT game. Recruiting great players is very important. But if you can't get great results out of them, what difference does it make? The incoming recruiting class is very avg. (at best) and Jones is going to get killed for this year by other coaches recruiting against LSU. So there is a very real chance the one aspect of being a coach Jones does well, recruiting, will disappear. This is especially big with a good crop of Louisiana players on the horizon. Including Jones, there are 4 coaches in the SEC from Louisiana (White, Johnson, Kennedy) They are all coming in to LA to try to get that talent.

"He's an LSU guy and loves LSU!" Great, so do I. That doesn't mean I'm qualified to be the Men's BB Head Coach. I think most people, even those who didn't like the hire at the beginning, really wanted Jones to succeed because he was "one of us". 17 years of history, including 4 at LSU, tells us that's not going to happen at any significant level

That has nothing definitive to do with effort. Read the post. He is in a job that he is not at all competent to do. He doesn't need to be head coach and should be removed. "Not trying" and "not knowing what to do" are two different things.