MikeTheTiger71

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Well for 1, he doesn't know our playbook and our players don't know his. That should be common sense

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It doesn’t seem like the players know the current playbook either. They might as well take the two weeks to start learning the new playbook. It can’t be any worse than what we saw the last 2 games.

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The only way I see it happening (if Kevin Smith is hired, of course) is if Eric Wolford is an analyst and LSU goes without an O-Line assistant. I haven’t heard what his role would be, but we still would need an O-Line assistant. Going without one is not happening.

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The only thing calling him an analyst would mean is that he wouldn’t be able to recruit off campus. He’s an older guy and may be perfectly content to just coach and not worry about recruiting.

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He was already a redshirt freshman when he played 2 games in 2022. He played 0 games in his first year. I made the same mistake. He is listed on the Ferris State roster in 2021, but with no number.

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Ah, that’s what I get for trusting Wikipedia and media reports. In that case, I don’t see how he has any grounds for an additional year unless the reason he played only 2 games in 2022 was an injury.

Huff and Napier are off the table now. They should have moved on when Baker didn’t sign on immediately.

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Memphis and Tulane are both better than multiple P4 jobs.

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The AAC has really closed the gap with the ACC the last couple of years. With FSU currently spinning their wheels, the top of the AAC is just as good as the top teams in the ACC except Miami.

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I'm comfortable that LSU will get somebody else good, if he leaves.

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I am hopeful that would be the case, but Kiffin doesn’t exactly have a strong track record of hiring strong DCs. Part of the allure of hiring Kiffin was that the defense was in good shape and LSU needed an HC to handle the offensive side. Now we have to worry if we’re back to a great offense with questionable defense. I’d much rather stick with a combo of Kiffin and Baker than the uncertainty of who Kiffin would bring in instead.

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I leave out Arkansas because they have won 2 games all year and are winless in conference. I don't know if that would necessarily be the feather in Baker's cap when talking about opposing offenses they have stopped.

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Arkansas only won 2 games because their defense was awful, not because their offense was bad. It absolutely was a credit to the defense to hold down a high scoring offense to escape with a one point win due to LSU’s anemic offense.

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UGA is a very good team. Oklahoma is not a good team. They have a good defense but Mateer and their offense is going to hinder any chance they have in the playoffs

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Again, the strength of Oklahoma’s offense (or lack thereof) has absolutely nothing to do with an evaluation of their defense. OM put up 34 points on their Top 10 defense and 35 on Georgia’s Top 15 defense. How OM’s defense fared against OU’s offense isn’t relevant to this discussion.

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Outside of the first two drives of the game, I saw them march down the field at will pretty much even with the fumble right before he goes into the end zone.

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Oklahoma forced Tennessee to punt only twice. Tennessee drove inside the Oklahoma 30 on their first 4 drives and to their 36 on the fifth. Drive 6 was an INT. 3 of 6 drives in the second half got inside the 30 and 4 of 6 inside the 40. That’s 7 drives inside the 30 and 9 inside the 40 out of 12. If you were consistently judging the two defensive performances, you would draw similar conclusions.

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I don't know if you watched that game but OU had a sack fumble for a TD, two INTs that led to FGs right before the half, and they were just playing the prevent defense at the end of the game when they were up by 9 with less than 2:00 left at 33-24. Their defense won that game for them.

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I don’t know if you watched the LSU-Ole Miss game where the defense caused a fumble and had an interception to end promising OM drives and held firm to force a FG in the red zone on another. The defense kept them in the game despite a horrendous showing by the offense. See? You can come up with a positive narrative for the defense’s performance if you don’t start out from the biased perspective that they didn’t play well.

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Oklahoma played awesome against Tennessee and their defense was the only reason they were in the game.

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Oklahoma gave up 27 points and 456 yards to Tennessee and that was awesome, but LSU giving up 24 points and 480 yards to Ole Miss was terrible?