re: Ok....NOW We Are The Laughingstock of CFB

Yeah but your postvsuggests that we lost Underwood and we are the laughingstock because of it and it's all on Kelly. Further you blame Kelly solely for our woes and that is fair. But we are not the laughingstock....Michigan is for paying a kid close to 4 million a year......if he's any good.

But I suspect you would have no problem if we could match or better that price....few on this board would if we are being honest.

Our biggest problem is that we never think that we should pay the cost for past mistakes . You do realize that we did put Kelly in an undeniable position in 2021 when we hired him. He as in the hole 40+ scholarship players.

You don't get top notch players from the portal unless they are QBs generally.... and I would argue even that is a crapshoot. Your getting guys who were second string at other D1 schools.....that's why they are transferring because they think they can get a shot. Kelly said he wanted to build via recruits after last year.

I would say that maybe the fan bases are, but not the admins. At 10-12 million, you gotta scramble to find sugar daddies who will carry that freight for you...and act as paymaster to an extent.....and since college athletics does not exactly operate as a sane business you have an unknown management paradigm driven by outside forces like agents for coaches and agents for players making deals via 3rd parties associated with the official user - the university.

You have buyout and guarantees for coaches, payments to players and a wild west set up via the transfer portal. Throw on top that because of the sugar daddies you have outsiders who may be willing to up bid thereby making the ability to work with some sort of coherent mission next to impossible.

Who pays the kids
Who pays the coach
What's the overall operating budget that you must stay inside?
What's your revenue at the stadium?
What's your revenue from the league

It seems that if there are shortfalls, the coaches and kids get blamed and the AD goes put to beg the donors who cannot define what their return on profit is or what it looks like. But they fork over....but will they fork over to keep paying for 3 coaches?

So you are running a business where you are paying guys not to work. And the guy you got to take their place hits you up for a guaranteed contract wherein if you fire before the term is up you are left paying him an exorbitant fee. Your fresh talent puts you into a bidding war yearly and you are reliant on investors who really don't see a monetary return on investment as individuals. Ex: is Cane's profit margin all that dependent on whether LSU is winning or losing? Is Ochsner's. Maybe being able to measure the size of your dick compared to other guys is a good
payoff....until you get diagnosed with high blood pressure and you start taking Norvasc (Amlodipine) so what are the oil baws who give, give, give to a rabid unrealistic fanbase going to see as a tangible payoff and they want to keep paying for their mistakes?

Blame Kelly all you want. But, he's not near the problem you think he is.....neither is Woodward for that matter although he's probably more culpable but he's a victim as are other ADs of an undisciplined environment.

I doubt folks think about LSU as much as we do.

9 and 4 top 10 recruitment class laughing stock.. its too early to be drinking

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9 and 4

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6-4, soon to be 6-5.

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op 10 recruitment class laughing stock.. its too early to be drinking

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Won’t be in the top 10 much longer

Top 25? Strangely enough I can’t find then in that list. And is that what 100mil buys? An insincere redfaced jagoff yankee? I’ll pass

They may ultimately laugh at Michigan for paying a kid that much money until somewhat proven

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Maybe they are laughing at what a miserable group of fair weather fans we have. Pathetic post.

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This board makes our fanbase look totally pathetic. I’ve never seen so many self loathing pussies.

OMG we’re broke!
OMG it’s the LA economy!
OMG we’ll never win again!

No shite the media piles on. The catastrophe syndrome here is very real.

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Loaded?

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Guess you are another one that has forgotten we are sitting with 2 of the top duel threat QBs in the country on the bench Ricki Collins and Colin Hurley...