re: The true direction of the program will unfold over the next 4 weeks.

It’s starting now 6 games in? There’s only 6 games left. It’s started. It’s messy.

come on people, the truth is right in front of your face.

3-4 loss team.

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There was a "commitment" by Les to fix the issues ahead of the 2016 season with a loaded roster ranked #5 to start. He then lost 2 games before the end of Sept due to the same problems that had long been present and the donors terminated him.

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I'm pretty sure that Les was burned toast halfway through the second quarter of the Wisconsin game. Big promises about changing the offense, then opens the season with the same ole death by toss-dive.

They were probably working on the termination letter before LSU got on the plane to head home from Green Bay.

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He's already blown one great opportunity for a championship run in 2023 by not being able to make the necessary mid-season adjustments to make the defense at least average to complement the elite offense.

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You’ve lost your damn mind. They scrapped House’s entire scheme after the Ole Miss debacle. They scaled it back even further once we had to start all freshmen CBs for the last 4-5 games.

A scheme change didn’t matter in 23 because we didn’t have the talent or experience to be better. In fact, most of the talent was very inexperienced, which just made things worse. The portal class was mostly a bust and two of our best players went down for the last 1/3 of the season. It was a total fricking mess.

The offense has plenty of talent and experience, overall. Lack of creativity, the lack of progress by the OL and various injuries have caused problems, but there’s no comparison of the potential levels of this offense vs the 23 defense if the right adjustments are made, some key players like Nuss and Durham get their shite together and Anderson, Green, and Moore get healthy.

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No it won't. The direction of the program isn't dictated by a handful of games in one season.

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What are you talking about? It definitely does. Especially this year. Look at what happened to Penn State. I'm not saying that Kelly is going to get fired after this year at all, but look at the outlook of that program just 15 days ago compared to what it is now.

This was supposed to be the year that we were all in and the stars were supposed to align. We shelled out $18M to get guys in the portal.

This team has the talent and potential to win all of their remaining games. They could also just as easily drop 4 of their next 6 end the season. You think boosters are going to be as willing to cut checks for NIL if that's what happens? Or do you think their question will be "If you can't get it done this year, are you ever going to be able to?"

Do you have any faith in Kelly moving forward if they don't make the playoffs this year? Or are you fine with playing in the Cheez It Bowl every year?

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This forum acts like we knew from day 1 that 2003, 2007, and 2019 were going to win it all and we didn't stress after a loss or a close game. All those seasons had similar issues to what we are having now. Just enjoy the ride and stop acting like everything hinges on every game or play.

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You are comparing apples and oranges. Every year is different, and this season is nothing like any of those. We weren't slogging through one side of the ball in any of those seasons.

In 2003, nobody had championship expectations. Defense was generational, and our offense wasn't pedestrian like it is now.

In 2007, we saw them demolish Miss. State and Virginia Tech to open the season on both sides of the ball. We had faith that we could get it done on either side.

We ultimately didn't have anything to bitch about in 2019 because we won all our games.

I'm sure plenty of people bitched and moaned back then as they do every season, but that's literally what being a fan is all about. I can still enjoy every second of football, and still complain. If you don't like it when fans do that, then you are on the wrong board.

Complain all you want, but not every game indicates the trajectory of the program.

Penn St’s situation is irrelevant. There was coach fatigue by the AD after he’d been there 10+ years. I could easily say look at the Ryan Day situation last year. After the Michigan loss, all the dorks in their fanbase gave up. Then they move on to the next game and get on a roll and win it all.

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He's already blown one great opportunity for a championship run in 2023 by not being able to make the necessary mid-season adjustments to make the defense at least average to complement the elite offense

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In college football if you don’t have the dudes esp on in the sec you will get torched theirs not level or elite coaches to cover for that. Kelly whiffed on the hiring steeples as cb coach and Matt house as dc. The talent cup was bars that was the least talented backend since the lsu teams of the 90’s it was that bad.As elite as the offense was that defense was not winning a natty it’s ok to say we didn’t have the players that year. Read the camp stories of the defense that year their were multiple days the db room didnt win a single rep agaisnt the lsu offense,

uh we were not even a top 50 program before kelly got here. WTF are you talking about?

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uh we were not even a top 50 program before kelly got here. WTF are you talking about?

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Getting the “dumb take express” warmed up for basketball season eh

Or Better yet, tell the world he truly doesn’t know how to lead and prepare a team yet still steals $10M a year win or lose!
He has made this program physically soft on Offense, these guys can’t physically beat anybody 1:1! That’s PATHETIC!