Metaloctopus

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He isn’t coming here or anywhere. As long as he plays decently for SCar next year he will be a 1st round pick lock.

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It doesn't really matter where he goes in the draft next year. He has another year to play college ball before then, and why not do it for a team that has a decent chance to win, and more money to play there than he'll get at South Carolina?

I don't know if he'll come here, but I don't think his draft status is going to have anything to do with his decision.

And, once more, the majority of the people in the thread have missed the obvious sarcasm.

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Lane did well but he didn’t recruit these guys in 3 days. Come on now.

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He had three days to convince them to stay. Nothing that happens in the months and years leading up to signing day means a thing if you don't close and get them to actually sign. When there are coaching changes, it usually means your recruiting class falls apart. He had to re-recruit these guys, which is especially hard in the NIL era, where you have to fend off not just good programs, but even mediocre ones with deep pockets.

Anyone who doesn't appreciate the job Lane did, in my opinion, does not understand this process.

What was your point that I'm supposed to respond to?

Tulane plays in a pitiful conference and gets an automatic invite for being the best of the most undeserving teams in the playoff.

What does this have to do with LSU?

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This team obviously won’t be a tough as nails D, so I’d like to see them take care of the ball better, much better.
I don’t know much about analytics, but I can’t imagine that was a very efficient 93 pts. That’s fine now, but will need to improve.

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They were extremely efficient at scoring the ball when they actually got a shot off. The turnovers were the only thing that could stop them, and they were mostly just silly mistakes that were easily avoidable.

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No, I want the best system possible. Which we haven’t achieved yet. I want as many of the most entertaining games between the best teams in the country that I can get.

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There is nothing entertaining about watching some crappy team outside of the top ten get blown out. And you are advocating for even more teams to be let in.

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Who is advocating for that?

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Who? That is literally the reason we even have a playoff. If it's not about letting more supposedly "deserving" teams have an opportunity, then it doesn't have a purpose.

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I can’t imagine saying that “you can’t make everyone happy so why even try to improve it”

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Strawman argument. Making change for the sake of change does not equal "better". People have tried to "improve" the system and have only succeeding in watering it down. So it is basic logic that adding on more teams, and getting rid of conference championships will only water it down even more.

You want the best system possible, but you don't know what that is. And that's the problem. I liked things the way they were at 4 teams. Others weren't satisfied. Now we have 12. You want more. You see the pattern here? Just because you might like something more, doesn't mean it's what's best for everyone. You are elevating your own opinion as if it's the only one that matters, and you don't take into account that plenty of people agree with my side of the argument. So where do we go from here? We just change things because change is good? No thanks.

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So would you like to go back to the BCS? Or would you like to go back to when the AP just named the national champion? What is your perfect system?

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There's your problem, right there. You want a perfect system. There isn't one. Trying to make a perfect system is how you muddy the waters and make things worse. A 4 to 8 team playoff is enough. Trying to make all the whiners happy who say they've been left out, is never going to work. Because each time you expand, whatever the number is, the next few teams out will argue that they were more deserving than the teams directly in front of them. I said this before there was any playoff at all. And here we are. We jumped from 4 to 12, and people are arguing for more expansion.

You can't make everyone happy. So leave it alone. That's my position. You're not going to agree, and I get it. I'm also not going to change my mind, because I'm tired of change for the sake of change. It's exhausting, and pointless.

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But they are pointless, and they create an unfair and unbalanced system. The sport is evolving and with that evolution, changes need to be made to improve the process. Also, what you described is exactly what's killing the sport. You are advocating for a game in which teams might be inclined to play a bunch of walk-ons instead of a playoff game in which every team would be desperaely trying to win.

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I never advocated for the stupid 12 team playoff. These conference championship games held a lot more importance when we weren't watering down the field with this stupid format. So no. My position isn't what's ruining the sport. It's the people who are constantly trying to fix what wasn't broken who are ruining the sport.

All of this complaining about an "unbalanced system". The system is unbalanced no matter what you do, because there are so many different conferences, unlike in professional sports, and the level of competition is each conference is nowhere near comparable to one another.

So people try to "fix" it by adding more teams to the playoff. Then more, and more, and more. When will it be enough? Take a look at the basketball tournament. It's never enough. And that's the problems with all of these "fix it" people. Sometimes you just have to leave well enough alone, and stop complaining.

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If Alabama get kicked from the playoff this year, I’d expect it to happen next year. They need to get rid of conference championship games, expand to 16 teams, and be done with it.

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No more expansion, please. 12 is already terrible, with mediocre teams getting in.

Conference championship games are part of the process. No reason to remove them. If any team finds themselves not caring about a conference title game because they think it doesn't matter, then they can play a bunch of walk-on's and get embarrassed. Otherwise, man up and play the game to win. I'm tired of people trying to ruin everything that was good about this sport, by replacing everything with never ending expansion, realignment, pseudo free agency, and trying to duck out of playing games, for one reason or another.

I've been waiting for the talking heads on national TV and radio to admit this, but they haven't. None I've heard, anyway.

I get that you're upset, if you're an Ole Miss fan. How are you not going to be upset over losing your successful head coach, at any time, let alone ahead of the playoffs. But as far as making Kiffin out to be some kind of monster for the timing of it shows a total lack of awareness. Coaches have always left for better jobs. It only SEEMS worse here, because of the timing, but that timing is completely out of Kiffin's control. He wanted the job, LSU was willing to wait, but Ole Miss was not, and could not. They had to get a decision so that they could move forward, and there's no way you let a coach with a conflict of interest coach your team in the playoffs.

So, what was Lane supposed to do? Just not take the job he's wanted for years? I don't see anyone in the media complaining about players bailing on their teams for "business reasons". This all could have been avoided by not having such a stupid schedule. We all knew this was going to be a problem, but somehow the NCAA had zero foresight, once again.