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This the portal affect.
I think this might get better for LSU when players start seeing the success of CLK.
I have to say I'm a little surprised it is that low. I wonder what it was in years past.
Granted there isn't the shear volume of 4-5 * in LA, but we need to make sure those guys are coming to LSU.
The question is does it NEED to be better?
Before the new rules re: transfers and NIL, roster were built through HS recruiting. Obviously, location plays a big role in that because it was more likely LSU could sign a HS kid from Washington, Louisiana than it was Washington DC, or Portland OR, or Altadena, CA, etc. LSU had a strong advantage because it was largely successful in signing the top LA talent.
Now, roster aren't built exclusively through stacking HS recruiting classes year after year. There is less "development" from freshman through upperclass. Guys are all just on 1 year contracts. Even the HS recruits. If you can sign a good 3rd year QB who happens to be from Oregon, or the best safety who is a senior from California, that's the better approach than limiting yourself to building from within (ask Clemson). Look no further than Indiana. They won the NC with very few starters from Indiana.
Yes, LSU should and will still sign the top HS players from Louisiana. But doing so is not as much of a necessity as it was 5-6 years ago. This is more and more "pro" football. There, the rosters are made up of players from all over the country.
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Traditionally bowls were a reward for good, deserving teams and there were only 6-15 of them in any given season and they mattered because it was a showcase of ranked teams, teams that otherwise would never play and the opportunity to see exciting newcomers on the scene.
Expanding the bowl season to a month of diluted crappy games where every arse 5-7 team with players who don't care gets a participation trophy was "untraditional" and a money grab.
Very true. That's why personally I could not care any less about the non-playoff bowl games. But that was the case even before the expansion of the CFP. I watch because it is my team. But I don't get upset over a loss or ecstatic over a win.
But they aren't really for the players or even the host city. They are made-for-tv events by the networks because even crappy bowl games get better tv ratings than just about any non-ballgame programing the network could show in those timeslots. As long as the conferences will get paid for participating the minor bowl games will continue
Parties? No. Not at all.
However, I don't mind watching games with a very small group of close friends who I know will be equally focused on watching the game.
If this woman was married, then her husband is an incredible pussy and you should not ever watch another game with him present. NO ONE watching the football game wants to miss half of a quarter to watch someone's kid dance. Total fail by not telling this lady to save that shite until after the game. Especially her husband (if she had one) Or, at least go to another room where the few people who might actually give a damn about the kid's dance can watch it without interrupting the people watching the football game.
However, I don't mind watching games with a very small group of close friends who I know will be equally focused on watching the game.
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The time before that, it was vs Alabama, forgot what year, but it was going good until one of the women made them put the game on mute right at the end of halftime so everyone could watch her daughter dance to some songs for a performance she had coming up. That took up about half of the third quarter.
If this woman was married, then her husband is an incredible pussy and you should not ever watch another game with him present. NO ONE watching the football game wants to miss half of a quarter to watch someone's kid dance. Total fail by not telling this lady to save that shite until after the game. Especially her husband (if she had one) Or, at least go to another room where the few people who might actually give a damn about the kid's dance can watch it without interrupting the people watching the football game.
It's going to be an atmosphere similar to Baton Rouge in 2008 when Saban returned for the first time since leaving LSU.
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Tua is not a world beater, but he's more than serviceable when healthy. A mediocre starter perhaps, but that's still better than what Rattler has been
This.
If the only criteria was how well a QB performs in practice then the Saints would be in a good spot. Unfortunately, games count. Even though Tua hasn't been the great, "tank for Tua", talent everyone thought he could be, I'd still take him over a guy who is 1-13 as a starter in his career.
I'm guessing the money was part of some sort of grant that had to be dedicated to that purpose (in general highway/road infrastructure). At least I hope so. As in I don't think the city/parish is taking money away from cops, or libraries, or EMS to build a hobo super highway.
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This did not happen. They attempted to. But they did not take over the stadium. It was a very good atmosphere for a day game.
No visiting team is going to fully "take over" the stadium. But there were a LOT of Georgia fans in attendance that day. Both upper decks were mostly red and there were numerous Georgia fans scattered throughout the stadium. The reason the large Georgia crowd wasn't more impactful was because LSU controlled the game from beginning to end. There wasn't much for the UGA fans to get overly excited about...unlike last year vs. A&M where they dominated the second half, LSU fans left, and all that was left in the stadium at the end was A&M fans...which made it seem like they had a huge amount of fans in attendance.
the pharmaceutical companies will just invent more "conditions" to treat. Of course, stopping short of developing a cure.
re: What happens if the college athletics bubble burst?
Posted by Alt26 on 8/21/26 at 8:10 am to KosmoCramer
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They would.
If the best u22 players are playing, people will watch.
Absolutely not.
It would be like every other minor league that doesn't draw audiences/viewers. The "goodwill" in college football is the century plus association with the school. Your attachment as a fan is to the school...not the players
Make the team the "Columbus Buckeyes" and take away the classic OSU uniforms (because OSU would own those trademarks) and after a few years the Horseshoe would be 1/3rd full, at best.
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There were a lot of GA fans. I wouldn’t call it a takeover though.
It was the most visiting fans I’ve ever seen in the stadium. Fortunately, there was nothing to take over because LSU dominated the game from start to finish.
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I’m simply saying he didn’t play “much better” against Texas.
Certainly Skataboo was the star of the show, but 222 yards passing vs. 68 and 282 total yards vs 137 is against a CFP team is much better.
re: Lane calling Sam "awesome"... - Lane Kiffin press conference.
Posted by Alt26 on 8/20/26 at 2:52 pm to DallasTiger45
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o people realize he played more than one game in his college career? Pretty sure every QB but Mendoza and Trinidad had at least one stinker last year.
True.
He played great @ Texas Tech to give them their only regular season loss last year.
The MSU comparison is because it is an SEC team. He didn't just play poorly vs. MSU last season. He did so the season before too. 10/20 for 69 yards 0 TDs (though he had two rushing TDs). Of course, he played a much better SEC team that year too (Texas) and performed much better.
For me, I err on the side of Lane Kiffin because all of his QBs at Ole Miss were good, regardless of how they played prior. Until Kiffin doesn't produce a top 3 SEC offense I assume this year will be no different.
re: Lamar Brown out today with leg injury per Moscona, will miss some time
Posted by Alt26 on 8/20/26 at 1:03 pm to GeauxLaneTrain
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BK had the outdated mindset of “we roll with who we have” and “next man up”.
Lane thankfully does not
It's college football. What else is a coach supposed to do if a player gets hurt? Until the last few weeks (and even that is not a certainty) there was no way for a coach to sign a new player in August or during the season if a player was injured. The coach had no choice but to play the next guy in line.
re: It’s going to seem ridiculous this year with granting players a 5th but..
Posted by Alt26 on 8/20/26 at 9:13 am to JimTiger72
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LSU is currently in training camp & players have been fighting to move up the depth chart & earn playing time… bringing in guys now that have been in an NFL training camp to fill that playing time just seems wrong and doesn’t feel like college football, but that’s the era we are in now I guess
That's true. However, the current college players want to be treated as quasi professionals. What you described is the nature of the NFL. There are guys competing for jobs in training camp right now while at the same time the front offices/scouts are constantly looking outside of the roster for potentially better players
re: At what point do we see players suing for permanent eligibility?
Posted by Alt26 on 8/20/26 at 9:03 am to Complete Linebacking
Those arguments have already been floated in court proceedings, but that level of relief has yet to be sought. The NCAA is losing these cases because of ambiguity in the rules and inconsistent application of the ambiguous rules. Some guys get waivers.... some don't. The rule applies to some class of players...but not all.
5 for 5 is trying to change that (emphasis on "trying"). No redshirts. No waivers. Simply just 5 years of eligibility regardless of if you don't play or miss the better part of 4 years due to injury. The counter argument to the professional college player argument is that it restricts graduating HS seniors. Fewer teams are going to want to pay significant money to an 18 year old with no college experience, or sign a large number of them to the roster, when it can have a roster of 26, 27, 28 year olds 6, 7, 8 year vets.
5 for 5 is trying to change that (emphasis on "trying"). No redshirts. No waivers. Simply just 5 years of eligibility regardless of if you don't play or miss the better part of 4 years due to injury. The counter argument to the professional college player argument is that it restricts graduating HS seniors. Fewer teams are going to want to pay significant money to an 18 year old with no college experience, or sign a large number of them to the roster, when it can have a roster of 26, 27, 28 year olds 6, 7, 8 year vets.
re: It’s going to seem ridiculous this year with granting players a 5th but..
Posted by Alt26 on 8/20/26 at 8:49 am to Bsnightlife
It makes financial sense for the players. It doesn't make sense for the game as a whole. That's all of the players, Chambliss, Pyburn, the LSU basketball commits, etc. But this is the competitive marketplace LSU has to exist in. If your competitors are doing it and you aren't, then you are operating at a competitive disadvantage.
NIL being "capped" simply isn't going to happen. Same for any sort of "salary cap" (at least in the foreseeable future) or transfer restrictions (like the old sit out a year rule). The one thing the NCAA MAY be able to control is eligibility. Otherwise, we are truly going to have professional "college" players. That is players who have 8, 9, 10+ year college careers with no meaningful intention to try to play pro ball (because they just aren't good enough to command the "salary" they can make as a college player).
5 for 5 is at least a step in that direction. It was always going to be challenged in the courts, immediately. But hopefully going forward the rule clears up a lot of the ambiguity on eligibility issues.
NIL being "capped" simply isn't going to happen. Same for any sort of "salary cap" (at least in the foreseeable future) or transfer restrictions (like the old sit out a year rule). The one thing the NCAA MAY be able to control is eligibility. Otherwise, we are truly going to have professional "college" players. That is players who have 8, 9, 10+ year college careers with no meaningful intention to try to play pro ball (because they just aren't good enough to command the "salary" they can make as a college player).
5 for 5 is at least a step in that direction. It was always going to be challenged in the courts, immediately. But hopefully going forward the rule clears up a lot of the ambiguity on eligibility issues.
re: Former Tiger DE Jack Pyburn apparently trying to come back to college and enter the portal
Posted by Alt26 on 8/19/26 at 4:06 pm to The Pirate King
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Several players were going for this and apparently now it's been approved.
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Per multiple reports, former LSU defensive end Jack Pyburn is among 16 players that have been granted temporary restraining orders to return to college football this upcoming season. The case includes other former SEC players like Ole Miss defensive lineman Xzavian Harris and safety Wydett Williams.
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This pretty much kills college sports as we know it.
To a large degree college sports "as we know it" has been dead for a few years now. This was just an inevitable next step. Diego Pavia's lawyer essentially argued that it was antitrust type behavior to prohibit Pavia from playing another year at Vandy (last season) because it prohibited from a signficant marketplace for him as a football player. College players not good enough to play in the NFL lobbying to essentially become "professional" college football players was inevitable. With every local judge giving a favorable ruling, the NCAA seems helpless to stop it.
As a college football fan in general I think it is absurd. But as an LSU fan it is simply a part of the competitive landscape. If your competitors are doing it then you are at a competitive disadvantage if you DON'T do it too
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none of the ghetto bullshite going on near LSU has anything to do with LSUs admissions standards. The fact that this culture exists at all, clearly does not give a frick about civilized society, and populates the area within walking distance of the north gate is the problem.
LSU could admit only valedictorians and this problem would be the same. It’s a Baton Rouge problem not an LSU problem. The only answer is complete exclusion for everyone. No activities or gatherings at all
Perhaps. But the area outside of the North Gates has been...let's say not so good...for a long time. Decades. Yet, it is only in the last few years where you have seen some, presumed, spillover into campus. This gathering, the shootings during football games, etc.
re: No discussion on the hood takeover of LSU North gates?
Posted by Alt26 on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to LSUbasketballfan
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The police presence will be 10 different groups of 5 or 6 uniformed cops standing around bullshitting with each other in the free parking lots out by the levee.
:rotflmao:
Truer words have never been spoken. BRPD especially can't even be bother with traffic control at those spots, let alone security. Traffic backing up to a crawl on River Road. Who cares? Not our problem.
re: Roger Goodell reiterates NFL having an international team is inevitable
Posted by Alt26 on 8/19/26 at 8:16 am to UltimateHog
Goodell sees the NBA and MLB having significant international markets, with star international players, and wants the same for the NFL. However, he apparently does not realize that football is not a new sport and the NFL is not a new league. If there was bit appetite for American football internationally it would have already taken hold by now organically. It hasn't! Trying to force it isn't going to work.
While the NFL may not have the international reach the NBA and MLB have, it is far and away the most popular sport in the US...which is the most lucrative marketplace in the world. Foster that rather than working to, eventually, dilute your product. The NFL is already taking more and more home games from fans to play all over the world.
While the NFL may not have the international reach the NBA and MLB have, it is far and away the most popular sport in the US...which is the most lucrative marketplace in the world. Foster that rather than working to, eventually, dilute your product. The NFL is already taking more and more home games from fans to play all over the world.
re: No discussion on the hood takeover of LSU North gates?
Posted by Alt26 on 8/18/26 at 5:02 pm to grizzlylongcut
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The governor and Rousse need to get this shite under control. It’s clear Baddun Ruhge leaders aren’t willing to do anything about it. LSU and LSU football specifically are far too important to continue to allow this shite to take place.
There were shots fired on campus during both the Florida and South Carolina games. Landry responded by closing "Unity Field" (which I didn't even know existed until last season) and beefing up security. There were no issues at the last 3 home games.
We'll see if that attention to police presence is back at the Clemson game. If not, and people who want to tailgate and attend the game start to feel unsafe, you'll start to see a quick decline
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