Smokin Joe Dumas

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This has the potential to drag on for years

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It won’t

Yes. Really they’re based on needs or means. However, there are outside scholarships based on academics and other factors.
Admittedly, I don’t know how much money his family was making, but grants aren’t necessarily needs based.
Believe me, there are ways to do it that don’t require you to get into debt if you want to do there. Especially if he’s smart enough to get in.
It’s about what is important to the person. (Personally, for an undergraduate degree, I’d go to a prestigious state school if I had been in his shoes)

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Also was Davis injured vs Bama or just benched?

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Honestly, I don’t remember.

As far as Curne goes, I believe he was originally supposed to be a guard, but he has tremendous athleticism so they used him at tackle

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Maybe he wasn't able to get up to speed mentally or physically yet. If he hasn't played, I'll take the coach's opinion that sees them practice everyday.

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I agree as to your second sentence. Since I’m not at practice, I can’t weigh in on that.
As to the first, he must’ve come up to speed recently I guess.

As to the whole, I think this may be a further indictment on Brad Davis’s performance. Not only is his coaching ability suspect, but his personnel decisions are questionable as well

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too small to be an every down edge.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but in today’s game are there really “every down edges?” Seems like there’s a lot of situational types of players.

This is more a general observation or opinion than a comment on this player in particular

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Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships, are you saying his family finances were such that he qualified for 100% financial aid ?

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Have you heard of Academic scholarships?

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As an opposing fan, I wouldn’t want to see Dillingham, Freeman, Grubb, or Shanahan at LSU.

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What’s your reasoning for that?

This seemed to be a common hiring pattern pre-NIL. Are they as important in this post NIL world?
With some of the names being floated on here, especially those from G5 schools and even the OC at Oregon I decided to look.

From what I can find none of them come from the “prominent” coaching trees from the past. The Saban age coaches came from Holtz, Woody Hayes, Bear Bryant, Bo at Michigan, and a few others.
Newer coaching trees include Saban, Kirby (even though he’s technically Saban tree) and maybe a couple of others to a lesser degree.

It was generally the norm to go after coaches who were taught by big successful coaches, especially since it was all but impossible to poach those big names.

In today’s game, is it as important or are there things more important, especially when hiring a coach who is currently a head coach.

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I remember Josh Booth.


And his brother Abram Booth (sic). Don't forget him.

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And John Wilkes Booth

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Where did that go? Why does he look not only worse than last year, but hes not even a gunslinger? I mean, hes throwing check downs ON EVERY SINGLE PLAY. He's avoiding guys WIDE open, he refuses to do the basics like, stepping up into the pocket making our offensive line looking even worse, and he STILL refuses to run and take easy yards.

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IMO, it’s a mental issue. Call it “gun shy,” “indecisive,” “afraid,” lingering issues from an injury . . . it’s basically the “yips”.
Only he can fix it and I don’t think he knows how. As a former QB, unless and until he gets it figured out, he needs to take some time to figure it out away from the field and the noise