ATLTiger24

I get that our fanbase is currently in the mode of Everything Lane Does Is Awesome. What I don't get about how Kiffin has handled Frank is how it squares with Kiffin's reasons for choosing LSU over Florida, Ole Miss, and others.

Saban made the case publicly for LSU that he made to Kiffin: no material competition for copious Louisiana NFL-caliber talent when LSU is right. Mix Louisiana talent with a few out-of-staters, plus a few portal adds, plus Kiffin schematic magic, leads to championships.

Frank Wilson is obviously not the only living human capable of reeling in the best of Louisiana. But who is better? Who on Ole Miss' staff can recruit Louisiana better than Frank? Who currently on this staff? Every single one of them may be better on-the-field coaches. Did Lane Kiffin come to LSU to out scheme everyone with lesser talent? Isn't that what he did at Ole Miss outside of 2024, when their roster was loaded and they lost three games?

Neither of your examples is about LSU. Kiffin is a national story for obvious reasons. It would be covered the same if he had left Ole Miss for Florida, Penn State, or anywhere else.

Will Wade was caught on a federal wiretap talking about paying players by name. That story is cat nip for college writers. It has nothing to do with LSU. The fact that LSU fired Wade when some other schools may not have done so is LSU's prerogative, not the media's.

Everyone in college football hates Brian Kelly, now including everyone in Baton Rouge. He would have been hated the same way had he left Notre Dame for Florida.

The 2019 football season was a wire-to-wire PR video for LSU football on ESPN and every other media outlet. That is because we dominated. We've been mediocre since, and so the personalities (good or bad) of our coaches have been the story instead of bad football.

If the bowl game is "meaningless" then so were the games @ Alabama, vs. Arkansas, vs. Western Kentucky, and @ OU. LSU was out of contention for any championship of any kind.

NIL should be paid on a per game basis. You don't get paid if you are a healthy scratch.

Set aside the politics of this movie. It's just not interesting, smart, funny, or exciting. I like PTA and very much looked forward to this one. I hate that he wasted several years on this.

Some of the performances sparkle. Teyana Taylor (Perfidia) and Chase Infiniti (Willa) light up the screen. Benicio amuses in a Wes Anderson-adjacent role. Everyone else toggles between cartoonish (Penn and everyone in his camp) and boring (Regina Hall and everyone in her camp).

Below average considering the budget and talent assembled.

Nah, it's:

1. After beating State, Kiffin is overcome with emotion, announces he's staying in Oxford, and leads Ole Miss to the final four, where ...

2. Ole Miss loses to Texas A&M in the semifinal, who ...

3. Beats Notre Dame in the national championship game.

4. Meanwhile, OU and Vandy make the playoff that again does not have LSU ...

5. Meanwhile, LSU started the season with a seemingly epic road win against a supposedly juggernaut team that ended up meaning nothing ...

6. Meanwhile, Dillingham signs a long-term extension while LSU chases Kiffin's psychosis.

If Kiffin coaches the Egg Bowl, then he stays at Ole Miss. It doesn't matter whether it's because he changed his mind, or because he's been trolling us all along, or because he is a psychopath.

There is nothing that LSU can do different, and nothing that anyone on this board can do. But if he coaches on Friday, then the dominos will fall.

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Member when he sat out that bowl game to keep his redshirt and LSU had to play a backup wr at QB? Nuss was always about Nuss and only Nuss.

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In hindsight this was Nussmeier's sliding doors moment. If he lights up a mediocre Kansas State team in the Texas Bowl, then there is a solid chance that Jayden does not come to LSU to challenge a presumed starter. Nussmeier gets to play 2022 and 2023 with true NFL receivers and NFL offensive lineman.

Zero chance Nussmeier gets close to Daniels' historic production in 2023, and so LSU's record would have suffered given the terrible defense. But Nussmeier enters the draft in 2023 having two solid statistical seasons throwing to Nabors, BTJ, and Mason Taylor, while protected by competent linemen.

Just admit that you're not smart enough to understand the legalities of this, not plugged in enough to know the facts of this, and not important enough for your opinion on these circumstances to matter. You'll feel a lot better.

I don't blame Kelly for replacing Moffitt. LSU had gone soft in 2020 and 2021, getting repeatedly manhandled, including by UCLA. Kelly believed that Moffitt, Corey Raymond, Blake Baker, and others were part of the soft, failed regime that he was there to correct.

Brian Kelly may be past his prime, not elite enough to win big in the SEC, etc., but he has not exactly been stubborn. He has shown he will fire anyone on LSU's staff who he believes stands in his way of what he thinks he needs to win. He has been perfectly comfortable spending tens of millions of other people's money in order to do so.

Has no offensive or defensive philosophy to be stubborn about. He recruits and internally promotes totally different styles of QBs and RBs. He rebuked the transfer portal and buying players until he decided he needed them to compete.

Again, he may not be good enough to make a playoff at LSU, much less win any championship of any kind. But I think it's a mistake to confuse his prickly personality for operational stubbornness.

What I take from this nonsense is that the MAGA right and the Woke left deserve each other. We are screwed as long as they continue to control politics and power on both sides of the spectrum.