re: Saban pulled his starting QB at half-time of NCG...

And Kelly just beat Saban with that QB you think is so useless.

You mean the first real game experience for nuss was a solid sec school and LSU lost in ot. Nuss wasn't terrible and was a TF playing his first real college ball. You are so caught up with a bad QB that you can't even see the tools nuss has. His dad is a damn NFL QB coach. He was barking out coverages the other night at line of scrimmage, moved well in pocket, 60 yard rope. BH couldn't play when the lights went on. Confidence is not an issue with nuss. But you carry on, I know JD is your boy, and you couldn't care less if he could pass well or not.....mane

It blows my mind to see you guys stumping for a QB that after starting 4 years still can't read a d, or accurately throw the ball down field. When you get your wish and we come back with same offense next year, only worse because teams are now scheming against JD...you'll have excuses why it isn't jd's fault...ol, oc, wr, etc...blows my mind.

You forget the state, aub, and arky games where defense literally bailed us out by shutting opponent down second half, not to mention FL St, Tenn, a&m. Jesus

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Saban pulled his starting QB at half-time of NCG...
For Brian Kelly to win and win big, he has to have the stones

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I'm an outsider but I think people massively misunderstand what happened there. People want to point to saban as being a brilliant strategist, or having "stones" to make a gutsy call, or any number of other things. None of that is correct. The reality is that he literally had zero other choice considering jalen hurts was worse than dogshit and led them to precisely ZERO points in the biggest game of the year. That is in no way similar to the SECCG this year where Daniels was throwing some great passes early and moving the ball well and put points up on the board. In the '17 NCG Hurts was 3/8 for 21 yards. Let that sink in how abysmal that is. Saban's back was against the wall and he only had one bullet left in the gun and it just so happened to work out favorably for him, but let's call it what it was. It was the desperate, last ditch hail mary effort of someone out of options with nowher else to turn.

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so was Saban wrong all year in starting Hurts?

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Of course not. Saban had a whole season of watching Tua practice and make incredible throws.

Tua was a much better college QB than Hurts was. Hurts could run better. Tua was a better passer.

My point is that Saban has the stones to make these million dollar decisions, good or bad. I've seen BK take risks by going on 4th down, maybe when he should have punted. That's not guts, thats bad coaching.

Nuss took advantage of his opportunity. He competed. Everyone was happy to see him play so good. Nobody wanted to see JD get hurt.

Kelly did go for two against Bama and for that, I have high hopes for the future. If he plays JD rather than a better player, then all that good will will be gone.

BTW, that better player may be Howard.

Lol...yeah Kelly went and got him in portal...it was never open, it's why Brennan quit and why Boutte pouted. Kelly has a history of wanting this type QB and I guess he hasn't learned his lesson yet from the best downs he takes on the big stage.

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Confidence is not an issue with nuss. But you carry on, I know JD is your boy, and you couldn't care less if he could pass well or not.....mane

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Well we know who your boy is.

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Leaving Nuss on the bench this entire season has been a huge mistake.

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LSU was picked to finish 5th in the SEC West. In case you missed it, they won the SEC West...with Daniels at QB. Thus, it's a bit hard to say not playing the backup QB was a "huge mistake".

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No matter how bad JD has looked this year, CBK has refused to bench him. “This is my guy and that’s who I’m going with. I don’t care how bad he looks or how bad he plays, I’m right because I’m the head coach and you’re not.”

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Besides the Tennessee game, where other factors caused LSU to fall behind 10-0 before the offense possessed the ball twice, was LSU ever "out of the game" early enough to necessitate a QB switch? LSU won 9 games. Everyone is dumping on the QB because of the last two, when in reality the much, MUCH, bigger issue was the complete collapse of the defense.

Could starting Nussmeier all season have yielded different results? We'll never know. But if someone would have said before the kickoff vs. FSU that LSU would win 9 games and the SEC West EVERYONE on this board would have taken it. Nussmeier looked great throwing the football in the 2nd half on Saturday. He was also in a very low risk situation. LSU was already down 25 when he entered the game. It wasn't a "must win" games in terms of LSU making the playoffs. Whether LSU ultimately lost by 10 or by 40 didn't really matter. They would still lose. So he had some freedom to throw a bit riskier passes.

To take a definitive stance LSU would have been much better with Nussmeier at QB this season is foolish. NO ONE can say that for sure. The bigger question is moving forward. All year LSU's offense struggled mightily to push the ball down field. Nussmeier did more of that in one half that LSU did all season. So I think that is something the coaches have to consider if they are not fully satisfied with how the offense performed this season.


If LSU were 6-6 or 5-7 this year largely because of bad QB play I would be right there with the others criticizing Kelly for not making a change. But given the fact LSU exceeding virtually ALL reasonable expectations this season it is really hard to criticize the personnel decisions.

doubt we have 2 future NFL starters like Bama did.