re: Kelly is the best HC we've had since Nick Saban

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Les Miles before LSU. 28-21. Eddie O before LSU. 16-27. Brian Kelly before LSU. 166-62. With a National Championship appearance, and 2 playoff appearances.

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That’s great. Both of them won a championship at LSU. Until Kelly does that, there is no claim that he is a better coach.

He’s got more wins than Saban.

I'd like to see JD lead us to 2 TDs in our first two drives and then Nuss enter the game and close it out for a win! Y'all tell Brian thats what I want.

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That's not a high bar,

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In a sense it kind of is. Ole Les had the highest win percentage (on the field, vacated wins aside) of any LSU coach who coached 25 or more games.

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but hold off until he wins a ship. Both Les and O did.

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I'd say hold off until there is a little more time to see what happens. And the Natty is not the only or even the best determination of how good a coach is. Remember that Larry Coker has a Natty and Bo Schembechler does not.

I think he is the best since Saban at LSU in terms of the optics if nothing else. I also think he will turn out to be one of the best overall but only time will tell.

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Les was a damn good coach for a period of time,

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And his recruiting was elite, and rankings reflected that until his last few years from what I recall.

I thought Ed O would at least recruit on an elite level, but covid killed Ed's career as much as his bravado and urge to bang skanks.

That's not saying much. Saban was replaced with a 70s era HC with a mental deficiency. Then that coach was replaced with a cartoon character come to life. Incredibly both were able to win national championships at LSU.

I loved Les until the game finally passed him by and the lack of a QB caught up to him. Coach O did a great job until he reached the mountain top only to have the mountain promptly collapse. Les squandered more talent than any coach this side of Mark Richt and Coach O inexplicably left the program in shambles.

BK may never have the same success that Les and Coach O had but even if he doesn't, I think he's a better head ball coach. I don't know if that makes any sense at all but to me BK is clearly a better coach.

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Not sure what you mean by patchwork, UGA and Bama are only teams not living in portal and we aren't even sniffing the top 10 in recruiting rankings since he's been here.

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#5 Recruiting class last year and will have a top 10 class when its all said and done this year. If you're going to bash the man at least know what you're talking about.

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If Kelly wins the Championship in his third year there will be an *.

* With benefit of Portal and NIL

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Does your lover boy O get an * because Aranda hired Busch that resulted in Burrow getting to campus?

CBK was very successful in every job he had prior to coming to LSU. He had a great resume. LSU was lucky to have him available and willing to take the LSU job.

I have no idea how many NCs CBK will win at LSU.

What’s Kelly’s record in BCS/NY6 bowl games?