re: Just amazing looking at the comments!!

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Loyal, committed, talented…

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There is no loyalty in big time business and LSU football is big time business. Dude was making over $500M annually but he found a better situation for him. Corey Raymond wasn't "loyal and committed", nor should he have been.

First, this is a message board for LSU. Discussion about what is going on in LSU athletics is what it is here for. What is a said here doesn't matter in the real world, for the most part.

Kelly has to make his own decisions. We can still discuss whether we agree or not, that's what we are here for. I think he has made some poor decisions or led to some poor outcomes. Kelly has earned the benefit of the doubt that he may be correct. If he turns out to be right, we will cheer and support him. If not, LSU will have made another very expensive mistake.

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Yeah it’s Raymond’s fault that LSU suffered so many injuries in the secondary. Man you people are unbelievable

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Exactly what was Eli Ricks' injury, again?

Why not? He helped shepherd Stingley and Ricks. No? He did not build DBU...at all. Why leave the failed staff in place? I think a total clearing was in order.

Some unasked for views from outside the LSU system, but here goes anyway:

When I left Louisiana for Nebraska in the early 90s, the Nebraska sports system was second-to-none.

Most of us didn't realize how important the entire athletic culture was to the success of the program.

At that time, everyone was on the same page. The Regents, the university president, the athletic director, the coaches, the food service people, the stadium workers, the tutors, the professors, the janitors -- everyone was on the same page -- make the system the best that it can be.

We thought that would go on forever. Then an athletic director did some dumb things. There started to be questioning of coaches. Some professors and the university president felt the athletic department was getting too much attention. On and on.

Over the past 20 years, we have changed coaches, athletic directors, assistants, and nothing has worked.

I believe it hasn't worked because those coaching changes didn't get to the root cause of the problem -- the bad culture.

Right now, I think we have the right coach, the right athletic director, and the right university administration, but it may take a long, long time to change the culture.

Give the new LSU coach a long time. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen immediately. It may take a while to get the entire culture turned around.

LSU is lucky. You have a much better situation for your coach to start with than we have yet in Nebraska. I'm looking forward to LSU winning the SEC year after year. Start with beating Texas each year!

I do not post a lot because of the culture on this board. People asked for a change and then complain about the very changes they asked for. Complain about how those changes come about. It is clear that some program wide changes were needed. Kids will be kids and do stupid things. But we all must admit that the quality of our program has declined. The quality of our players have declined. I am in no way talking about the talent level. I am talking about the character level. I hope that BK sees this and will address this. I want those players that will stay and fight, not accept money on the sideline, or have have players come back and try to give money to our players like this. I do understand the landscape is changing and it is hard to keep these kids in line, develop high character standards, and still be in the top 1-2 in the SEC. But I hope that BK can deliver this to the LSU family. I know we have some great kids on this team. But honestly our entire team needs to be at a certain standard.

We definitely need more of these threads!

The rent will always bitch

Even if we hired saban back