The causes of lane’s big games issues imo.

He is objectively a bad gameday decision maker. I have never seen a coach have a better ability to win the stat sheet and lose the game. The good news is that being a bad gameday coach doesn't mean we won't ever win. He seems to be good at everything else. roster building, team building, coaching hire decisions, gameplanning, etc. And we saw with CLM and CEO that questionable gameday guys can still win with good enough rosters. He just has no feel for in game decisions.

Lane should learn to STFU and get a couple bullying seasons under his belt with at least 1 NC before he brings all the celebs and cookie on the sidelines and dunking shite into TS...

If he really wants to be what he can be with this program, he'll ditch all that for a bit, turn down the DJ music and use his influence to get Mike the Tiger back on the sidelines....

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He is objectively a bad gameday decision maker. I have never seen a coach have a better ability to win the stat sheet and lose the game. The good news is that being a bad gameday coach doesn't mean we won't ever win. He seems to be good at everything else. roster building, team building, coaching hire decisions, gameplanning, etc. And we saw with CLM and CEO that questionable gameday guys can still win with good enough rosters. He just has no feel for in game decisions

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most coaches are. Nick Saban was pretty bad at times too. Most great coaches win the games before they start with all the prep work.

You tend to see these bad decisions when the coaches feel like they have to make them to win because the team isn't just better than the other team.

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Baker took a lot of heat for the ole miss first half gameplan but according to LSU insiders like shea Dixon, lane was heavily involved in the game planning vs chambliss due to his history with him.

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As he should have been.

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He felt going soft and not giving up the big play was the best approach vs his former QB.

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It wasn’t just about Chambliss. Lane talked about the crowd too. And he knows the Ole Miss fan base and what the energy is like in that stadium, its ebbs and flows. He thought that taking away the big plays would keep the crowd from being a huge factor in the 1st half, then felt confident that our offense could score and would eventually take a 2 score lead in the 2nd half and take the crowd completely out of it.

He probably overthought it a bit. And wasn’t expecting Green to get hurt. He probably thought we would be able to ride Jones and Trey’Dez in the 4th and pull away. He also wasn’t expecting Spears to get hurt. That injury was absolutely brutal for that particular game. (Was brutal for the Bama game, too). It was certainly on the coaches to not be prepared for that. Jimcoily was absolutely abused until they finally figured out to go more nickel/dime with Jackson on the outside and sliding PJ down to the slot.

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Looking at how GA and Texas suffocated Chambliss by blitzing him relentlessly it makes it more baffling Kiffin felt the soft approach was the best course of action.

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And look at how that strategy worked against Russell. EVERYBODY before the game was saying “Blitz every down!!!! Russel will wilt under the pressure of Tiger Stadium!!!!!” Then completely changed their tune after we lost. We brought a ton of pressure all game, just couldn’t get home. There is not one way to completely shut down a dual threat QB. You have to pick your poison and take some chances. Sometimes the other guys just make plays.

***Few people are talking about this, but our DTs have been neutralized lately—Anderson going down hurt bigly—and it is affecting the entire defense. That position was already thin, and we are asking too much of a true freshman who has to be hitting a wall playing in his 1st grueling SEC schedule going up against guys that are 3 or 4 years older than him. And he doesn’t have a threat next to him, so he’s getting double teamed on passing downs. And is already undersized for stopping the run.

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Coaching impulsively, not adjusting to the flow of the game

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This is fair, and I’ve pointed it out a few times. He’s still learning how to coach “at LSU.” It’s different than any place he’s ever been. And he’s trying to find the right balance. I think he’ll figure it out. Just probably gonna be too late for this year to make a playoff run.

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meddling in defensive gameplans

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This is silly. Lane Kiffin is the head coach. He gets paid $11.5 million/per. He knows football on both sides. The wind and losses go on HIS record. He has every right—and responsibility—to be a part of defensive game planning. He’s not on the head set in overriding Baker and calling plays. He may tell him, “let’s go a little conservative here, make them drive the length of the field” or “get aggressive here, we need the ball back asap.” Or whatever. Which, again, is part of his job. No good coach gives a coordinator complete, 100% autonomy. They work together, not completely separate of each other.

Agreed on Miles and Ed 0. They were just great recruiters, had better players and that would mask their decisions. Lane will recruit very well and Lsu will do well.

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In Bama game, Kiffin showed no faith in the defense

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and when the offense finally got the lead, it took one offensive play for Bama to show you why.

The cause of Lane's big game issue's is we are playing teams with more talent, who have played together longer. We were a 6-6 team that brought in 40-50 new players and new coaches. We will improve to a 7-6 or 8-4 team this year and make big strides next year. There is no magic dust to make a 6-6 team a national title contender in one year. It takes hard work and a little time. Even the great Joe B needed a year to grow.

Geaux Tigers

One of the funniest sentences in TRant history:

"He's the George Costanza of college football - all of his instincts are wrong."