TigerDawg1212

I'm not going to pretend to have deeply studied his game, but Purdue is one of the worst teams in FBS and definitely the worst P4 team. Color me skeptical that anybody on that team is worth taking unless they're a super raw physical specimen. This better not be what CBK meant when he said he was going to hit the portal hard.

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the recruits will sort itself out.

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Based off of what exactly? Our decommit class is elite. Apparently we're the favorites to give FSU their last swirly of the year which is nice I guess, but "sorting itself out" to date has been getting LSU ~.500 in the SEC talent, and that's by far the mode recruiting outcome yet again this year.

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You keep saying this but it simply isn’t true. BK isn’t withholding funds for kids. We offer great packages and they keep getting final offers after our final offers.

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Then explain all of the flips after we lost Underwood. That should have secured everybody else because we could have given all of these 5 stars another 400k a year while still being ahead financially, and yet they all flipped last second.

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Nope as much as this sucks. I don’t miss that at all. That hurt way more.

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I dunno. It feels pretty much exactly the same to me. Probably because we all knew it was the exact same thing happening. Some 5 star is all LSU until 11 PM the day before signing day where he's magically going to Bama and starts driving Dodge Chargers around.

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Who the coach is won’t matter anymore, the talent level on our roster will continue to drop well below standard and we won’t be able to compete for anything more than 7-9 win seasons.

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You're going to get massacred, but for what it's worth, you're completely right. These have simply not been classes that can reasonably win national championships. Tennessee gets away with it because they run a gimmick offense that teams see 0 to 1 times a year, and even then Georgia has pretty clearly shown what happens there if your defense is simply better than the guys in front of them vs that offense. I'm not entirely sure on who Tennessee and Florida have their eyes on, but they're close enough to us after the two sure thing flips that LSU can easily be the bottom half of the conference this year.

Brian Kelly needs to do something. This current approach of recruiting like the 8th best team (but really the class is equal to everyone's from ~6 to ~15) and then getting jack shite in the portal will never work. Justin Jeffersons don't grow on trees. Either do whatever it takes to actually hold onto 5 stars, or completely change the strategy, recruit lousiana, recruit the trenches, and use the portal for everything else. I'd prefer recruiting, it sure seems to work better from what we've seen so far, but bottom line is if the last 3 classes are the new norm, then South Carolina's year this year is going to be the future "good year" for LSU. You can't be middle of conference talented and expect to not lose 3+ conference games.

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Is it though? Because almost every team in the league is capable of beating anyone in the league, it makes the whole conference bad? I don't really see it that way.

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Yes. With the amount of talent in the US, extreme parity almost always means nobody is good.

You can also take a look at your favorite efficiency metrics and the SEC is going to be as bad as it's been since the 2000s when those weren't really commonplace.

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The issue going in this route is that when a recruit proves himself he will see the money available and likely get offered big NIL to transfer.

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No, the issue with it is that it doesn't fricking work. Just look at all those times Wisconsin beat Ohio State and one of OU/Texas didn't win the big 12. Oh wait...

Also, what those schools really do is recruit the character concerns and hope they don't frick up too bad while they're there.

Fine, if you're really insistent that it's some "gotcha" that people can't be assed to open up Sportsreference.

1. Kirby.

2. Ryan Day.

3. Dabo Swinney

4. Sark.

5. Dan Lanning.

6. Josh Heupel.

7. Lane Kiffin.

8. James Franklin.

9. Mike Gundy.

10. Shane Beamer.

11. Kyle Whittingham.

Not counting people who sure seem better but don't have the sample size yet in Curt Cignetti, Kalen Deboer, and Mike Elko. You'll also notice that 5 of those coaches are in the SEC.

It's year 3 and the the team is a worse version of the team he fielded after having 39 scholarship players. In a year that in retrospect should have been up for grabs because everybody not named Ohio State is pretty bad. Next year is looking fringe bowl eligible at the moment because all the bright spots are leaving and we're nearly a fringe bowl eligible team this year.

It's definitely not elite. If we can retain the dudes committed (though several are by all indications also gone already) this is still a decent class, but having a class of this caliber 4x is not anything more than a first round exit playoff team.

It's a snapping and holder problem. Not a kicker problem. Sadly I think we're kind of just stuck with it. Brian Kelly historically has had poor special teams play because he doesn't devote much practice to it, and he clearly hasn't changed anything there at LSU.