Datbayoubengal

I think he's going to finish behind the ND corner, or 3rd at worst, best corner in the country next year.

Why are people comparing ALABAMA'S DEFENSE THAT YEAR to the 2019 LSU defense? Do people not remember what our defenses looked like before the last 4 games of the year in 2019? Do people not remember what Vandy and Ole Miss did against us? Do you not remember Alabama? Do you not remember Texas or Florida? If this was a mid season game, LSU's 2011 run offense would have ran up and down the field vs LSU's 2019 defense.

Alabama/Saban had 4-5 weeks to plan for an LSU team they already played against and lost to.

LSU's 2011 defense gave up more than 11 points only 4 times that year and those 4 teams were 10-2 Arkansas (only losses Bama and LSU), 11-2 Oregon (only losses to LSU and 10-2 USC and won the Rose Bowl), 9-3 WVU (who won the Orange Bowl and scored 70 on Clemson), and Bama who scored 9 points AT HOME, and even with a second chance and their defense not letting LSU cross the 50 yard line, they only scored 21 points. They averaged 15 points over 2 games. All those teams had top offenses too. Not 2019 LSU good, but you can easily compare them, especially Oregon and AVU.

I can see it as a close match.

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They also seem to have issues developing talent. Besides the 26 draft they've averaged 3 to 4 players a year drafted.

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transfers are allowing everybody a chance to have more draft picks.

TAMU's top 8 draft picks (the ones who went in the first 4 rounds), 5 of them were transfers and 3 of those transfers were one and dones. The remaining 3 guys who stayed with them from high school were OL and DL. Out of the people who usually get drafted from TAMU, they were usually OL, DL, or LB. So now they can get transfer DBs and WRs and it works in their favor.

It's actually scary how consistent it is since Jimbo. Every now and again you'll see a DB or WR in the top 4 rounds in TAMU's SEC tenure, but if you go over just Jimbo's tenure (2019 draft through 2024 draft) of their 15 top 4 round picks, 11 of them were trenches or LB. Of the other 4, two were RBs, one a QB, and one a TE. Also, if you go after Elko's first year, all 3 draft picks were DEs.

So over a 7 year period before 2026, of their 18 top 4 round picks, all 18 played the closest to the line of scrimmage and only 4 didn't play OL, DL, or LB. TAMU had a myriad of 5 star and high 4 star DBs and WRs, and none of them panned out until they started getting them from the portal last season.


That will get you the 8-4 moniker all the time. Good line play with a good run game will keep you consistent, but it won't get you a championship.

With all that said, IDK why they are waisting so much on high school players. Money isn't the only thing making them leave.

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But… I was told if frank left we would lose our leverage on Louisiana kids!

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So you're saying we didn't just go get Ed O a few weeks ago, again SHOWING that we need a strong Louisiana recruiting presence on staff?

Some of you people just DO NOT get it :lol:

Please tell me we get Segarra. That is an NFL RB.

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Consulting is by definition paid work.

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Yeah but this is words from the guy who did the article, not from Kelly's mouth. It's more like a phone conversation.

Oh my God we are bringing back the juking RBs. Now we could end up with two of these guys that make people look silly in a phone booth. He has 4.4 speed too I can tell.

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He's a former wr transitioning to RB full time.

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So that's where the cutting ability comes from. Man he looks dangerously elusive. LSU hasn't had a great juking RB in a long while.

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Dude. He was a cheat when we got him from Michigan State. He didn't lure some of those Florida athletes up to East Lansing because of his personality. I recall talking to another LSU fan about this the week we hired him.

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People acting like they forgot Jimbo alluding to this shite just a couple years ago talking about his time at LSU with Saban.

Anybody taking up for him on this are hypocrites too. Dodge chargers and stacks of money for any good kid coming in as a freshman. Social media had this everywhere.

Yeah he has a cool pod. I think he just graduated or graduated last year from LSU. He gets some good sideline video at practice and during games. Several of his youtube shorts and tiktoks of LSU have gone viral (the one when Baker juked the DB at practice was almost everywhere).

It's an LSU sports podcast, but he talks about the Saints and Pelicans too.