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Observations on the team
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:15 am
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:15 am
Yeah, Saturday sucked but I'm not calling this a wasted first year. Let's look at the whole picture.
* Kiffin had to replace most of the roster. We had quite a few players last year who were clearly not SEC caliber. Kiffin sent them out the door.
Yeah, we spend $50 million on the roster but....
* We are weak on the OL. Getting Seaton was great but how many Seatons are usually available in the portal? The pickings are usually slim for OL's in the portal if you are trying to upgrade. It's going to take Kiffin some time to build a good OLine. That means going the recruiting route and that takes time.
* Weak at WR. We finally had a receiver develop midway through the season and he is a damn good one but the rest are ok but undersized as you've stated over and over. None of these guys would have been starting receivers before 22 but for Green.
* New staff, new roster, new qb who missed spring, guess what? It takes time to click, to build chemistry. These guys have to go to war together before they start figuring each other out.
Yeah, yeah, Cignetti this and that. He brought 13 of his best JM players to Indiana. Then he just has to supplement. That is a core that knows his coaching, knows his system. No break in period. Throw in transfers and recruits, voila.
Big difference from what Lane has to do. Pretty sure Lane would have liked to bring Chambliss, Lacy, Alexander, and Echols with him this year. It would have. made his job much easier.
No excuses for the fourth down crap. Just pointing out some of the reasons this season is not a real disappointment.
* Kiffin had to replace most of the roster. We had quite a few players last year who were clearly not SEC caliber. Kiffin sent them out the door.
Yeah, we spend $50 million on the roster but....
* We are weak on the OL. Getting Seaton was great but how many Seatons are usually available in the portal? The pickings are usually slim for OL's in the portal if you are trying to upgrade. It's going to take Kiffin some time to build a good OLine. That means going the recruiting route and that takes time.
* Weak at WR. We finally had a receiver develop midway through the season and he is a damn good one but the rest are ok but undersized as you've stated over and over. None of these guys would have been starting receivers before 22 but for Green.
* New staff, new roster, new qb who missed spring, guess what? It takes time to click, to build chemistry. These guys have to go to war together before they start figuring each other out.
Yeah, yeah, Cignetti this and that. He brought 13 of his best JM players to Indiana. Then he just has to supplement. That is a core that knows his coaching, knows his system. No break in period. Throw in transfers and recruits, voila.
Big difference from what Lane has to do. Pretty sure Lane would have liked to bring Chambliss, Lacy, Alexander, and Echols with him this year. It would have. made his job much easier.
No excuses for the fourth down crap. Just pointing out some of the reasons this season is not a real disappointment.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:18 am to prplhze2000
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Pretty sure Lane would have liked to bring Chambliss, Lacy, Alexander, and Echols with him this year. It would have. made his job much easier.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:19 am to prplhze2000
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this season is not a real disappointment.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:21 am to prplhze2000
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We are weak on the OL.
wait till next year when we lose Seaton and Moore... b/c like you said:
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how many Seatons are usually available in the portal?
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Yeah, yeah, Cignetti this and that.
you can't discount the only factual evidence we have from the NIL period to try to enhance your argument... the FACT is it can be done, and the FACT is we aren't doing it...
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Just pointing out some of the reasons this season is not a real disappointment.
maybe to you... but when you spend as much as LSU has for a coaching staff and roster, you expect results in year one, espeically when, as has been pointed out, it's been done by someone else before in the NIL era
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:26 am to chRxis
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wait till next year when we lose Seaton and Moore... b/c like you said:
I think Miret will be good at Center; and hopefully Martinez can step up too.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:53 am to chRxis
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you can't discount the only factual evidence we have from the NIL period to try to enhance your argument... the FACT is it can be done, and the FACT is we aren't doing it...
Cignetti is an outstanding coach, but that 2024 Indiana schedule was putrid. Their opponents had a combined record of 62-84.
The same thing is happening out at UCLA this year. Their opponents have a combined record of 33-48. An even worse winning percentage.
For some perspective, LSU's opponents have a 51-31 record, and that's with, arguably, your two toughest games left on the schedule.
These teams aren't playing the same game.
Posted on 11/9/26 at 10:59 am to prplhze2000
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New staff, new roster, new qb who missed spring, guess what? It takes time to click, to build chemistry. These guys have to go to war together before they start figuring each other out.
Their chemistry was built in all the blowout wins but not the close losses
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It's going to take Kiffin some time to build a good OLine.
Unfortunately we don’t operate in that time period anymore. There is no more waiting around
Posted on 11/9/26 at 11:13 am to prplhze2000
Just say it. Not good enough it’s ok
Posted on 11/9/26 at 11:14 am to chRxis
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you can't discount the only factual evidence we have from the NIL period to try to enhance your argument... the FACT is it can be done, and the FACT is we aren't doing it...
It was done LAST YEAR by THIS coach. Ole Miss had 50+ new players on the roster...including much of their offense. The irony is that Kiffin is one of the datapoints showing that a HC can win immediately with a significantly new roster.
And the "it's year 1" excuse makers seemingly ignore the fact that it is not "year 1" for the defense. The DC and several members of last year's LSU staff returned. As did all but one of the starting secondary and all but one of the LBs. And the transfers on defense have been some of the best players: Benefield, Dottery, Umanmielen
LSU is essentially in the exact same spot it was last year when BK was fired. A one score loss to a good SEC team on the road (Ole Miss), another one score loss to a good SEC team on the road who historically has been a doormat (Vanderbilt), and a second half blowout at home for loss No. 3. Then, it was horrible and not good enough. Now, it's "year 1"
LSU lost in an emotional road game @ Ole Miss. Fine. It happens. They lost a game to a "great" Kentucky team who, in the only two games they have played this season against teams LSU fans are pretending LSU is comparable to (Alabama and Tennessee), lost by FOUR TOUCHDOWNS in both.
Any talk of firing Lane is beyond absurd. But it is ok to acknowledge his performance this season has, to date, been underwhelming without having to act like doting mothers trying to tell everyone that the reason their child made C's in all of his tough classes is only because the classes are hard or the teachers or bad, rather than just acknowledging the kid just did a below average job.
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