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Everyone is bitching about the calendar, but its set at the behest of the COACHES, not just arbitrarily by the NCAA.

The coaches pushed for an early signing day. . . .

The coaches pushed to end the spring transfer portal window. . . .

And easy fix would be to simply move NDS back to February...or at least late January. The transfer portal is more difficult because teh coaches want their new transfers enrolled and participating in winter/spring activities. Generally, the deadline to enroll in classes for the spring semester is early February. If a guy isn't enrolled in school, he can't participate in spring football activities.

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Thing is that right fit isn’t always apparent. I guess you can say from the South, but Saban is from WV and was coaching in the Midwest prior to here. Hungry to succeed, but you have to have to be able to tell if it’s just interview talk or they are actually hungry. I mean what candidate says they aren’t hungry in an interview.

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"And he’s even said publicly, and I’ve talked to him in meetings, one of his, I don’t want to put words in his mouth but, regrets in his coaching history was leaving LSU.”

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"He’s got money, he’s got rings, he’s got everything that you could ever imagine a coach when you set out to be a college coach could have, right? But this might be the only place that he might say, well, let’s, let’s sit down and talk."

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Just because you were a great player doesn't mean you're going to be a great coach.

I don't care bad how amazing you were if you aren't able to teach technique. Some of the best athletes in the world have no idea how to actually teach what the do because it's just natural for them. Don't k ow if that applies to Mawae or not, but it's the likely reason.

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Maybe players shouldn’t worry about the DJ playing music and worry about the game. The DJ is there for “fan experience” not to hype the players up.

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DANIELS HAD BEEN in Baton Rouge for a few months when he decided to swallow his pride and ask the most pressing question on his mind: What kind of hellish inferno had he transferred into?

He grew up in Southern California, where summer temperatures could get into the high 90s, but the strong Santa Ana winds kept the air dry and manageable. The average rainfall in the summer is just 0.1 inches per month. When he went off to ASU, he found Tempe to be 10 degrees hotter but just as dry.

So, he is absolutely unprepared for a Louisiana summer that feels something like a hot tub inside a sauna, with frequent outbursts from the heavens that can seem like the end times. One day in July 2022, he asks Wilson, "Does it always sound like this?"

"What?" Wilson asks.

Daniels points toward the sky. "The thunder," he says.

Wilson starts laughing. He gets it. In Louisiana, storms thunder differently. That July, Baton Rouge had a thunderstorm that dropped 2.34 inches of rain in one day, and another that dropped 3.36 inches in the area. All told, on the 62 days of that July and August, there are 48 days with at least one thunderstorm. In just two months, Daniels basically goes through more bad summer weather than the first 21 years of his life combined. In Wilson's office, Daniels has the look of a kid who's thinking about crawling under the covers with his favorite Build-A-Bear.

Wilson assures Daniels that the Baton Rouge skies are usually more bark than bite and that there is nothing particularly worrisome about the clouds on this day. In this moment, he feels an incredible bond with the young man growing up in front of him.

The weather is unbearable in August as summer practice begins. Even Louisiana-born LSU players shake their heads, thinking back to what was a sizzling month of practice, especially for a newbie such as Daniels. "That camp was one of the hottest summers I have ever been a part of, and Jayden was definitely feeling it," says Thomas, who grew up 20 minutes outside of Baton Rouge. "He just kept saying, 'This is too hot. What is this?' But he eventually adjusted."

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