re: LSU to hire Kyle Williams as DL coach

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Only time will tell but I think this will prove to be a great hire.

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Agreed, this board is rarely happy with anything. When a retread is hired (McM) there's bitching that we should have picked a young gun up & coming. When some new blood is hired we should have gone with an old reliable candidate.

KW, while not having coached at this level, brings so many great qualities. Unless he burns out, which could happen with anyone, he should prove to have been the perfect choice.

I realize that Kyle has no experience coaching college ball, and I know that college and the NFL aren’t the same, but consider this expert from an article about NFL coaching hires over the last 10 years.

But many NFL owners are still inclined to search for The Next Sean McVay -- the rising young coach who could solidify the pivotal franchise role for a decade or more. In the seven cycles since the Rams hired McVay in 2017, nearly half of all head-coaching hires leaguewide (24 of 50, 48%) have come from the same demographic -- under age 45 with no previous NFL head-coaching experience -- including Brian Callahan (Titans), Dave Canales (Panthers), Mike Macdonald (Seahawks) and Jerod Mayo (Patriots) this past offseason. (A fifth, Raiders coach Antonio Pierce, had just turned 45 when he took over on an interim basis during the 2023 season.)

Since 2013, 49/72 head coaches hired were rookie head coaches with no NFL head coach experience. Of those, 3 were hired with ZERO NFL coaching experience.

So why do people assume that he will fail without college experience? Coaching is coaching, and the ones who have it, have it. Kyle Williams has it. If the NFL doesn’t have a problem hiring a HC with no experience, then I have no problem hiring a DL coach with no college experience. If the man can coach, that’s all that matters.

I’ve known Kyle for a long time. I’ve seen what he has helped build at Ruston. I’ve seen him coach and communicate with his players. I’ve seen him counsel them, coach them, and mentor them. He does a tremendous job building relationships. He’s as down to earth as they come. He will be very successful in everything he decides to do in life because of his work ethic.

So let’s pumped the brakes on the fact that he’s going to suck because he doesn’t have experience, and just see how it plays out. BK isn’t in the business of trying to get worse, he’s trying to get better.

This should go much better than the Kevin Faulk hire did.

He brings both a solid performance in the ultra competitive NFL to the table, along with coaching experience.

I think he will become a very good recruiter for the team.

Jonboy I don`t think you want him to succeed because the way you
wrote that tells me you hate BK.

The owner of my old company shared a duck lease with him. Right around when he was retiring.

Nothing but insanely positive things to say about him as a dude.

I am rooting for him. At worst, he is an out of his depth coaching but is a great locker room guy and we maybe looking for a DL coach again which is nothing new. At best, I think the ceiling is high

I am not betting against him.

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not everyone is a GA and then a strength coach and then an assistant at ULL and then an analyst at Alabama and then an assistant at Miss State ….

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This. Kyle is a winner. Period.

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I am rooting for him. At worst, he is an out of his depth coaching

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I can’t fathom him being out of his depth coaching. However, I can see somebody with his grit, value and work ethic getting real frustrated having to deal with this entitled generation of student athletes. That shite was too much for Saban to deal with.

He was a part of the recruiting process and was recruited by a few schools. Oh, he was also recruited by the best to ever do it, so I’m sure he has some insight on how to recruit.

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that will make him among the highest-paid defensive line coaches

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Yet highest paid DL coach.

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Reading comprehension is not your thing, I see.