We beat Saban in his first year at Bama

Saban didn’t have a $50m roster bro. You’re comparing apples and oranges, but I agree with your point that we’ll be just fine.

Yall are Leavitting and overthinking this. I’m not comparing rosters or eras. I’m just saying that while we got “revenge” on Saban in our first meeting against him at Bama he proceeded to kick our arse for the next decade plus, and I expect Lane to do the same to Ole Miss. Not to mention, they will be nowhere near the program we were under Miles with Golding at the helm if/when Chambliss finally leaves.

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Saban didn’t have a $50m roster bro.

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Ever heard of inflation?

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While true, I think this emphasis is a bit misguided considering the context. By analogy, if I say I paid $1,500 for a flight to Chicago, you’d assume I went first class. If I told you a flew coach, you’d assume I’d gotten terrible “value”. But if I added the context that I bought the ticket an hour before the flight because an emergency came up, while having to pay that much for a particular level of product sucks, it becomes more understandable.

Similarly, LSU didn’t spend $50MM to build the roster it wanted; we spent $50MM to build the best roster we could under the circumstances. Lane came into a depleted, dogshit roster. He could have pointed that out, said next (this) year is going to suck, and to give him three years to cook.

Instead, we spent that money to skip that first disastrous year and jump straight to the second. If he’s not cooking next year, I think the criticism becomes more warranted.

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Can't compare 2000s to now.

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Yea you can

Yes there was no nil or portal but one program had been driven into the ditch while the other was built and still rolling.

We have the portal and NIL now but when a program is run into the ditch it’s still work to get it back out.

Ole Miss had two Heisman guys that Lane brought in and a lot of other parts. He had to completely rebuild this team which means we didn’t get exactly what we needed. When you need so much you have to figure out the best route. As we go along our roster will balance out. I think year 2 is where we see it most.

People wanted to toss dirt on Saban after losing to us, state, ulm and Auburn.

We will end up 10-2 or 9-3.

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Saban didn’t have a $50m roster bro. You’re comparing apples and oranges, but I agree with your point that we’ll be just fine.

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I think you’re missing the point that Nick could have five stars just sitting on the bench and today with NIL you cannot do that anymore.

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Can't compare 2000s to now.

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True, but a couple points to consider:

The portal window for LSU was very compressed for the new coaching staff.

It was also very compressed for Ole Miss due to their playoff run… resulting in their current team roster being largely put together by LSU’s current staff.

Just some things to consider. I think we are in good hands.

For Ole Miss lurkers… not saying Golding and team can’t continue the excellent player evaluations. Also they had their team very ready to play. If Ole Miss beat Florida after last week’s high emotions, I will be even more impressed.

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Saban’s first team at Bama was shite…..

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It was awful. The great class of LB’s that Dubose and Shula recruited had left. Bama was coming out of the scholarship limitations. Saban arguably had more to work with in 2000 than he did in 2007. But he, in his first year at Bama, landed Ingram and Julio Jones and Mount Cody. And from there, they were money. Lane needs to just keep adding on studs. If 2026 is his weakest roster, we are going to see many playoff games down the road.

Look at the schedule for next season. It’s a cakewalk until the very last three games.

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LSU's NIL is around $42mil, not $50mil (the latter number is an exaggeration by GTHOM fans)

GTHOM's NIL is around $35mil. This isn't exactly David and Goliath. Yes, LSU pays $7mil more, but as others point out we were building new and the law of supply and demand still apply.

Oh, and Saban was paying players plenty (just like pretty much everyone was).