re: Looking back on the BK hire

Uh...yall not gonna like this one, but its the truth.

BK wasnt motivated, but it was because of the awful timing.

Year 1. Myles was supposed to be the end all be all. 5th year senior shined when give chances but always hurt. Enter Jayden Daniels and basically runs Myles off of campus. Win the SEC West somehow.

1st year, literally no offensive line, but the defense was a top 30. Jayden carries us to the finish line.

2nd year, Great offense, Defense was awful, lose Jayden, Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas to the draft.

3rd Year, Good defense, but Nuss at QB. Some of y'all still love him, but a massive downgrade from Jayden and his ability to extend plays. No running game.

4th Year, Goodish defense, but Nuss is "hurt" 2nd practice. Some kind of way it takes over 9 months for this "injury" to heal which still has yet to be named besides "core injury". Leaned on Nuss, and when it was finally realized, he wasn't going to recover, we switch to the backup way to late and throw him right into the thick of the SEC schedule. We still cant stop a running QB, and get smacked around by A&M.

If we have a top 50 defense year 2, or if Nuss doesnt get hurt year 4, BK is still the head coach here.

BK? Who's BK? Forget that dude.

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If an 80 Year Old man can be President, a 60 Year Old man can be a Head Coach

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you dont see the problem with this do you.. Louisiana in a nut shell

under educated to say the least.

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I think BK had it in his head that it would be easy, and when it wasn't he checked out. He seemed to think he would get a lot more time to get things going than he ended up getting and there just never was a sense of urgency.

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The lack of urgency was his biggest undoing IMO, but I don't think he took the job with that attitude. He inherited a mess, but beat Saban and got to the SEC CG year 1, and had a Heisman QB year 2.

I think that quick success gave him a false sense of security that he had everything figured out. Once the CFP expanded, he switched on the cruise control and figured his contract would give him enough protection to win a championship eventually.

I think he was genuinely caught off-guard by how quickly everybody turned on him.

The pendulum swings, and you look for attributes in your new head coach that your recently fired head coach didn't have. Under that model, there was no way we could fire Coach O for his lack of professionalism and hire Lane; they were too similar and tied together. Hell, when we hired Lane this time there was a non-zero chance he was going to hire Coach O as DL coach.

On paper, BK was a strong hire. Unfortunately, in actuality he had fatal flaws and every coaching hire is a crap shoot- look at UF post Urban and Auburn has been searching since Chizik- both looking for their good fit for the past 15 years or so...

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His formula for winning quickly went the way of the dinosaur with the tPortal and since he had a fully guaranteed 10 year deal, no real motivation to try a new approach

He thought he could come here, LSU would recruit itself in a talent rich state, and he’d have more talent at his disposal than ever before….but NIL and the portal required more active management, so Scott forced Austin Thomas on him because it was clear Kelly was not going to actively engage in that type of roster management.

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I don't know how you can look at the team he managed to put on the field in 2022 and think that was anything less than an A+ coaching job. That team had no business getting to Atlanta.

After that, yeah he just got plain lazy.

I don't think he was too old to be a good coach. He coached us to being a very solid team for a couple years. However, a program like LSU should always be looking to hire a coach who has at least 15-20 years remaining of being among the best coaches in the country, and I don't think you could have said that of BK even at the time of hiring him. Going for "proven success" can really only get you so far in hiring a football coach - I think you need to swing for the fences with someone who has a lot of potential beyond what they've accomplished. Kirby Smart, Ryan Day, Kurt Cignetti are all great examples and are probably regarded as the top 3 coaches in college football.

Kiffin's a bit of a unicorn - he has proven success and also has potential well beyond what he's accomplished thus far in his career.

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BK did bridge the gap from disastrous post 2019 era to now, so I’ll give him that

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Bro, we went from the Texas bowl to the Texas bowl

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Looking back on it now do y'all think he was to old to hire?

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not at all. many baseball, basketball and football people coach into their 70s now.

saban was 56 when he took the bama job. kelly was only 60. he coulda had 10 good years left.

He was lazy. We all saw it. The whisteblowers leaked it out once he was fired.

Saban coached well into his seventies.

The problem with BK was that he was lazy. His first year was good but he thought he could just cruise to a title. He found out the hard way. His pompous arse probably has nightmares about getting fired. Humiliating for him I'm sure.