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re: The Coach O hate...
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:19 pm to Mo Jeaux
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:19 pm to Mo Jeaux
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He was what he always had been. When the people running the program left, the program fell apart.
this.
2019 erased a lot from people's memories.
they forget that in 2017, the AD had to literally sit in on coaches meetings to make sure O was letting his assistants do their jobs (yes, there were articles about this that year with Alleva discussing it).
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Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:23 pm to DCtiger1
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frick off, he ran the program into the ground
This is laughable. The team made it to the SEC Championship game the following year with mostly O recruits.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:23 pm to DCtiger1
As LSU fans, we almost unanimously felt we had all the potential in the world due to our recruiting, but were underachieving due to our dinosaur offense and our inability to beat Bama. Coach O took some chances to open up our offense and we had what felt like a miraculous season under him in 2019. We got to see the full potential we thought we had and then some which is all that we hoped for.
It crashed and burned quickly (predictable), but due to how awesome 2019 was and will forever be with beating Bama at Bama and going 15-0, I don't see why anyone would have hard feelings toward Ed O. I wouldn't trade 2019 for anything.
It crashed and burned quickly (predictable), but due to how awesome 2019 was and will forever be with beating Bama at Bama and going 15-0, I don't see why anyone would have hard feelings toward Ed O. I wouldn't trade 2019 for anything.
This post was edited on 8/18/25 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:24 pm to Nutriaitch
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AD had to literally sit in on coaches meetings
unfortunately, the AD hired Pelini with disastrous results.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:36 pm to Stevo
Coach O wants back in since the broad took half his buyout
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:37 pm to SuperFlyTiger
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I don't understand all the hate at Coach O
This board is the biggest echo chamber on the site with the laziest takes copied from other posters.
We got the good and bad with Coach O. He didn't have the skills to navigate all that happened post natty and the new college football landscape. It is what it is. He didn't intentionally tank the program.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:41 pm to SuperFlyTiger
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He gave us 2019.
With the talent on the 2019 team....a blind monkey could have coached that team.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:43 pm to The Hurricane
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made lazy hires
Like promoting Joe Sloan to OC even though he had minimal coordinator experience just to get the #1 recruit who wound up going to Michigan?
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:50 pm to The Pirate King
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We got the good and bad with Coach O. He didn't have the skills to navigate all that happened post natty and the new college football landscape. It is what it is. He didn't intentionally tank the program.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I think O intentionally tried to not frick up the program pre-2019. I think guys like Ensminger and Aranda did hold things together from a certain standpoint. In some ways, they were like training wheels.
After the natty, O got high on his own supply to some extent and took it as an vindication that he actually was a good head coach. This is pretty clear from his book.
He then made some dumb moves. I'm assuming he was following his gut and it steered him wrong. He also wasn't as focused as he was pre-2019.
He may have been able to hold things together without Covid, the portal, and NIL. All of that put him immediately in over his head.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:51 pm to Sonny Black
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Like promoting Joe Sloan to OC even though he had minimal coordinator experience just to get the #1 recruit who wound up going to Michigan?
If Sloan actually were a bad hire, why wasn't he replaced this last offseason?
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:59 pm to The Pirate King
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This board is the biggest echo chamber on the site with the laziest takes copied from other posters.
We got the good and bad with Coach O. He didn't have the skills to navigate all that happened post natty and the new college football landscape. It is what it is. He didn't intentionally tank the program.
THIS! Take the good with the bad. I'll chose to kindly remember the good times and championships that O, Les, Pawl (baseball) brought to LSU instead of re-hashing past screw ups that led to their demise and bashing them on a message board years later.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:01 pm to The Pirate King
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This board is the biggest echo chamber on the site with the laziest takes copied from other posters.
Ok, king cheeri0
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:10 pm to Stevo
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This is laughable. The team made it to the SEC Championship game the following year with mostly O recruits.
That 15 player signing class that offseason was awesome. You know since O told recruits to go elsewhere since he was a lame duck & all.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:12 pm to LNCHBOX
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Ok, king cheeri0
Da Chewin
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:14 pm to SuperFlyTiger
There were things that happened also that were out of his control.....namely a certain former player that is a cancer to LSU. O also caused some of it...but the behind the scenes bs with BLM didnt help at all.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:15 pm to Stevo
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unfortunately, the AD hired Pelini with disastrous results.
That's what happens when potential assistant coaches don't want to hitch their wagon to guy who challenges players to fights, rips his shirt off & chases whores 24/7.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:19 pm to SuperFlyTiger
You probably also think Gene Chizik is a good coach
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:20 pm to Stevo
The his last two classes were disastrous and set us back years. BK actually rebuilt the trenches
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:27 pm to The Pirate King
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He didn't intentionally tank the program.
I don't think any coach intentionally sucks.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:31 pm to DCtiger1
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The his last two classes were disastrous and set us back years. BK actually rebuilt the trenches
95% of the fanbase isn't aware or simply doesn't care about the shitshow that Kelly walked into yet what you posted is factual.
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