thunderbird1100

Even if we play almost nobody OOC, which thr OOC next season is actually better than recent years I'd argue; with our SEC schedule we will have a top 20 SOS in the country still.

We play so many great SEC teams throughout the season everyone's SOS in the SEC ends up extremely high. This isn't 1980s or 1990s SEC any more. It's a total powerhouse of a conference almost top to bottom even more so than football that no other conference even comes that close frankly.

The entire DL is playing minus Pyburn; Cooley and woodland are also playing

He graded out about the same as any of our freshmen linemen who played this year; hard pass

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He played through an injury. Wasn’t healthy most of the year.

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Which doesnt change my point

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I don’t think he is. I can’t see him carrying it 30 times against Bama

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Why do people think you need to carry it 30 times against Bama to be "an every down back"

All an every down back means is you can run the ball in any situation; are a pass catcher and can pass block. This doesnt mean you need x amt of carries to be an "every down back"

Berry is already that

Nobody needs to carry the ball 30 times in a game against anyone. This isnt 2009 Les Miles offense here.

You have multiple backs on every team for a reason, get fresh legs in there as much as you can.

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New Orleans isn’t the only part of the state that has good players.

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All the NOLA players we wanted in this class signed knowing Frank was gone. The 2027 5-star from NOLA has been committed to Texas for weeks.

Frank has extremely little value nowadays, that much is obvious.

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Good recruiters don’t matter anymore.

The only question recruits ask is how much am I getting paid and will we win under the head coach

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OM fans will come to find this out the hard way

Money and development matter infinitely more than a "great recruiter" coach now.

LSU ultimately made Frank, and he never became a coach of RBs, just a recruiter who has little value now in the NIL era. We will have not had a single notable RB here his last 4 seasons under his current watch and not a single one drafted .Meanwhile the guy replacing him has coached guys like Kewan Lacy and Quinshon Judkins recently.

Frank has had a plethora of 4 and 5 star talent here the last 4 years and turned them into nobodies. Not a single draft pick in 4 years at LSU this go-around. First time thats happened for that length or more since 1992-1998.

Despite Frank obviously leaving we had no issues signing our NOLA guys this class. Anderson, Mack and Hall all signed with us. In fact when Richard Anderson came into town right before signing, the meeting didnt even include Frank at all...and he still signed with us.

Probably because Frank's value has diminished greatly with the advent of NIL. He was always "just a recruiting" type of coach. We havent had a RB get drafted since he came back here in 2022. 4 years of no RB drafted; 4 years of no real RB production to speak of. This despite having multiple 4 and 5 star RBs in our backfield during that time. Meanwhile the guy we just hired to be RB coach has taken multiple 3 stars and continually turned them into stars. Frank has seen no success coaching outside of LSU; bad track record at UTSA, McNeese, and since coming back in 2022 here even. LSU seems to have made Frank who he was; remember he was coaching at OM back when Ed O was there; those were some fun times for you guys....

I'll take that swap every day.

Early on to me he looked lost defensively

There was always going to be fall off compared to last season

kenpom currently has the SEC as the #1 conference this year though; just FYI

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Florida, much like us, had no business being as bad as they were this past year. They had some really good players on their team.

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They definitely shouldnt have been 4-8 but they also had the hardest schedule in the country

When you look at things like Sagarin they were power rated at #33 in the country. Right at a 3 loss Arizona, 3 loss UVA and 4 loss Illinois level. Meaning sagarin thinks if they played UF's schedule they too would have around 8 losses.

Not that bad of a team by any shape, just had an absolutely brutal schedule to navigate. This is why raw W/L can be so deceiving. UF was a "solid" football team who just played a lot of teams on their level or better than them. The UK loss is the only huge outlier really.